In light of recent cuts to aid, Patta Scott-Villiers discusses how communities on the Somalia-Kenya border have navigated conflict and uncertainty, without effective or substantial international aid.

Al-Shabaab is rapidly closing in on Mogadishu, threatening commercial and military shipping in the Gulf of Aden and Arabian ...

Coordinated with the Somali government, the strike occurred southeast of Bosasso port city. This attack is part of an ongoing counter-terrorism operation, with previous strikes eliminating key IS ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — A German nurse abducted while working in Somalia seven years ago has pleaded with the German government to secure her release as security in the country continues to be fluid after an ...

Today, the Somali state is still fragile: insecurity is rife and government services are poor. But mobile data in Somalia is cheaper than in Britain, Finland or Japan—and the signal is good ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A German nurse abducted while working in Somalia seven years ago has pleaded with the German government to secure her release as security in the country continues to be ...

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 on Sunday. Djibouti's ...

Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland has rejected an attempt by the central government to give the US exclusive control of a port and airbase in Berbera. The city lies on the strategic Gulf of ...

"The Somali government forces and local community militias have retreated from the town and Al-Shabaab are now in control." Analyst Matt Bryden, co-founder of research group Sahan and an expert on ...