The Economist's July 24, 2025, article--painting Somalia's state-building as faltering and warning Mogadishu could fall to al ...

Al-Shabab rebels have seized the central Somali town of Mahaas after an assault involving explosions and a ground offensive.

Somalia's police force faces mounting accusations of deep political entanglement, raising concerns over its impartiality and ...

Fighting broke out after former Jubbaland minister turned Gedo region spy chief for Mogadishu government landed in Bula Hawa.

Somali government forces secure the scene of an explosion in KM4 street in the Hodan district of Mogadishu, Somalia, Oct. 15, 2017. Reuters The attack was one of the worst in the world in recent ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Mohamed Nor's phone rings constantly, kept busy by the property hunters who want to own a piece of Mogadishu. Other clients sit on a chaise longue inside his airy office in ...

Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, is experiencing a rebirth. It may still be fragile at this stage, but after two decades of war and anarchy, the Indian Ocean city is coming back to life following the ...

Somalia officially has its own currency, the Somali Shilling. But the government has been so dysfunctional that none have been officially printed in Mogadishu since civil war broke out in 1991.

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia's president says at least 100 people were killed in Saturday's two car bombings at a busy junction in the capital and the toll could rise in the country's deadliest ...

Somali authorities have spent years working to restore the national stadium in Mogadishu, and on Dec. 29 Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre inaugurated the national soccer tournament.