Somalia says it has turned down a request by Ethiopia to take part in joint naval exercises amid an unresolved dispute over a ...

Somalia’s northern state of Puntland reportedly intercepted the general cargo ship Sea World while it was en route to the ...

Some weapons on-board a Turkish vessel seized by marine forces from Somali breakaway state, Puntland have reportedly been ...

The UN December 2023 decision to lift the arms embargo on Somalia long considered a safeguard against renewed conflict was ...

A Girl from Mogadishu resembles a documentary in a bad way and a good(ish) way. The detail is all here. The facts seem sound. Like McGuckian's The Price of Desire, her film on Eileen Gray, A Girl ...

Mogadishu mayor Mohamed Ahmed Noor tells the BBC World Service why he feels being mayor of one of the world's most dangerous cities is a risk worth taking.

A Girl from Mogadishu is at its most powerful in the city of the title, the brilliant opening matched by an ending that sees Ifrah return to her birthplace to find her family - and answers.

Mogadishu residents held mass protest rallies, blaming the authorities for failing to prevent the attack. Many wore red cloth around their foreheads to show solidarity with the victims.

But after deadly attacks on Saturday in Mogadishu, which claimed at least 281 lives, some social media users have been asking where the solidarity for Somalia is, and why there are no trending ...

A Ugandan military helicopter deployed with the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia crashed at Mogadishu airport on Wednesday, killing five passengers, a Ugandan military spokesperson said.

For Mogadishu, wireless broadband is just the beginning. A few hundred kilometres off the coast three fibre optic cables, already fuelling Kenya's tech boom, lie waiting to be connected.

Somalian militants dragged soldiers' bodies through the streets of Mogadishu before burning them today when at least eight people were killed and scores injured in heavy fighting. The corpses of ...