Under the authoritarian regime of President Mohamed Siad Barre, the Somali National Army and various paramilitary groups committed war crimes and acts of genocide against the Issaq clan in ...

But some places on the continent are also politically unstable and violent, and tourists are well advised to avoid them. One ...

Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre, accompanied by Mogadishu Mayor Yusuf Hussein Jimale and several cabinet members, ...

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud pledged last year to end the complex clan-based indirect voting system that had been in place ...

DJIBOUTI (Reuters) -- 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 ...

The Somali language, spoken by over 20 million people across the Horn of Africa and the diaspora, is far more than a tool for ...

It was a place in turmoil. My father, who was a politician and an opponent of the dictator Siad Barré, was imprisoned. He later escaped and when I was 8 we fled after him to Saudi Arabia.

Egypt under Nasser in 1954-69. Somalia under Siad Barre. Allied in 1969, but soon changed sides to become violently anti-Soviet. During the Cold War period, it was the only government to do so ...

Under the authoritarian regime of President Mohamed Siad Barre, the Somali National Army and various paramilitary groups committed war crimes and acts of genocide against the Issaq clan in ...