Mogadishu’s first line of defense against the next militant attack on Somalia’s capital ranges from machine gunners in ...

Moments of political crisis often expose more than administrative failure; they reveal a governing philosophy at work.

Somaliland is constitutionally part of the Federal Republic of Somalia. Yet more than three decades after the collapse of the Somali state ...

NAIROBI, Kenya—More than three months after a federation of Islamic clerics came to power in Somalia, the group, as expected, has established strict religious rule in the capital, Mogadishu, and the ...