The changing role of Somali women represents a profound shift in the country’s social, economic, and political landscape. Once marginalized, ...

Around that time, the attorney’s office said, he had been “driving in the vicinity of Galkayo, Somalia, when his vehicle was suddenly surrounded by a group of heavily armed men carrying ...

Galkayo, also known as Gallacaio or Rocca Littorio, is the capital of the north-central Mudug region of Somalia. The city of Galkayo is divided into two administrative areas separated by a ...

He is the author of Sweetness and Blood, a 2010 about the history of surfing, and The Desert and the Sea, his 2018 memoir about his captivity in Somalia. He was driving in the Galkayo vicinity ...