Somalia, Africa

A number of people have died in the town of Beletweyne, the Hiiraan regional capital in central Somalia, following an outbreak of acute watery...

New research from Somalia has debunked the long-held view that discussions about sex are off-limits in this conservative nation, opening the door to...

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...

Large numbers of families displaced by violence in Somalia are surviving on less than one meal a day and spending large proportions of their meagre...

Authorities in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland in northeastern Somalia have appealed for international aid as parts of the region are...

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)...

Hundreds of nomadic families have fled the Middle Shabelle and Hiiraan regions of south-central Somalia after clashes between two communities claimed...

An outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) in and around the town of Belet Hawo, southwestern Somalia, has killed at least 11 people in the past...