Press conferences are usually pretty tame, but not in Somalia's bullet-riddled capital, Mogadishu. When a local faction held a briefing a couple weeks ago, its enemies responded with mortars, wounding ...

MOGADISHU, May 5 (Reuters) - Islamist gunmen have shot dead a prominent journalist in Mogadishu, the first reporter to be killed in Somalia this year, one of his colleagues said on Wednesday. Sheikh ...

Somali authorities on Sunday ended an attack by Islamic extremists that left 21 people dead and over 110 wounded when gunmen stormed a hotel in the capital. It took Somali forces more than 30 hours to ...

Police in Somalia said Saturday that 32 people died and 63 others were wounded in an attack on a beach hotel in the capital, Mogadishu, the previous evening. Al Qaeda's East Africa affiliate, ...

GAROWE, Puntland - The independently-owned Radio Garowe (RG), the sister publication of Garowe Online launched a fundraising campaign for Mogadishu truck bombing victims, Garowe Online reports. The ...

NAIROBI, Nov. 13-- -- NAIROBI, Nov. 13-- The Somali government shut down two private radio stations in Mogadishu on Tuesday, the latest episode in a widespread crackdown on Somali journalists working ...

Friday is beach day in Mogadishu. Early in the day before Friday prayers and before the sun gets too hot, people flock to Liido Beach on the eastern side of the city. "This is a very important place," ...

Somalia is experiencing its worst drought in decades. The U.N. warns that in the coming months, nearly half the country could be in a critical food crisis, with famine conditions in parts of Somalia.

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somali authorities on Sunday ended a deadly attack in which 21 people were killed and dozens more wounded when gunmen stormed a hotel in the capital. It took Somali forces more ...