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 ...

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

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

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

Mogadishu (PP Editorial) — As far back as the late 1950s, when Abdullahi Issa Mohamud, the former Prime Minister of the Trust ...

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 ...

Ali was born in 1989, though records of her birth were lost in the Somali Civil War which began in 1991 following the fall of longtime Marxist dictator Siad Barre. The war had a deep impact on her ...