As Western countries curtail support, the fate of one the world’s oldest state-building projects hangs in the balance. Three ...

Mogadishu, Somalia, 31 July 2025 ndash; The Deputy Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), ...

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

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

Efforts to establish a new regional administration in northeastern Somalia have entered a new phase, with delegates preparing to begin the selection of parliamentarians, officials said.The emerging ...

Somali Airlines was originally founded in 1964, with the help of the former Italian flag carrier Alitalia, having closer ties ...

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 ...

Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, is one of the most dangerous cities in the world. And yet, NPR's Jason Beaubien reports, there are reasons for optimism as an emerging middle class makes its mark on ...

Al-Shabaab stormed the Villa Rose hotel near Somalia’s presidential palace following a suicide bombing at the gate at 8 p.m. local time (noon ET), according to police.

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.

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.