Mogadishu, Somalia

Unidentified gunmen shot and killed the officer in charge of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) office in Mogadishu, on 6 July, according to UN...

It was like any other day in the life of Fahmo Aden, a 34-year-old mother and small trader, until she was told her oldest son had been killed in an...

The Network of African Freedom of Expression Organisations (NAFEO) has learned with dismay the adoption by the Transitional Parliament of Somalia of...

10 000 health workers stop polio virus through immunization Somalia is again polio-free, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) announced...

Ten people have been killed and at least 20 others injured in inter-clan fighting over land in Somalia's central town of Galkayo in the Mudug region,...

One year after the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) deployed its first peacekeepers to Mogadishu, the Somali capital, assessments of its...

Amnesty International today revealed the extent of the repression facing Somali journalists trying to report on the continuing conflict in the...

Somalia has one of the worst school-attendance rates in the world and, to mark International Women's Day on 8 March, activists are drawing attention...

Somalia's transitional government has welcomed a resolution by the UN Security Council authorising a six-month extension for African Union (AU)...

An estimated two million people in Somalia are facing a humanitarian crisis and need urgent aid, humanitarian agencies have warned. ...