Fiction steps beyond imagination with 12 novels that recreate history so vividly, that you might swear they were memoirs.

Al-Shabaab is rapidly closing in on Mogadishu, threatening commercial and military shipping in the Gulf of Aden and Arabian ...

After its battlefield defeat, it’s unclear if the Islamic State in Somalia retains the ability to extort money from the ...

As COVID-19 roared on in October 2020, Somali community leaders in Columbus, Ohio, formed a small nonprofit organization aimed at assisting their community through the pandemic. Two years later ...

A transitional parliament for Somalia -- the first since the Horn of Africa country dissolved into chaos in 1991 -- was formally inaugurated in the neighboring state of Djibouti on Sunday. Djibouti's ...

Peter Godwin, who has seen death up close a few times over the course of his life, examines grief and belonging in a new ...

The Islamic State in Somalia, founded in 2015 by Sheikh Abdulqader Muumin, capitalised on Puntland’s smuggling networks and rugged terrain to grow. Before the establishment of the Islamic State in ...

All of a sudden, Somalia faces an existential crisis: Al-Shabaab are within six kilometres of Mogadishu and are encircling the city. From the north, there is fighting at the Ministry of Defence and to ...

If you’ve ever wondered where Maya Jama hangs out in her free time, you’ve come to the right place. We caught up with the ...

Ilhan Omar's father, Nur Omar Mohamed, committed war crimes as a military officer in Somalia before immigrating to the U.S. as a refugee. There is little detailed information available about Nur's ...