What held Somalia together—and sometimes drove it apart—was its elaborate clan system. The five principal clan families, Darod, Dir, Isaaq (sometimes considered a Dir subclan), Hawiye ...

Somalia’s fragile security infrastructure faces yet another existential threat—not from Al-Shabaab, nor from foreign meddling ...

Since its adoption in 2000, Somalia’s 4.5 power-sharing model was designed as a temporary mechanism to ensure broad-based ...