The Minister of Education, Farah Sheikh Abdulkadir, widely viewed as a close political ally of President Hassan Sheikh ...

Pirates from Somalia hijacked an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen on Saturday and have diverted it to Somalia’s waters, ...

A pivotal political moment is unfolding in Mogadishu as opposition leaders prepare to publicly declare their position on the ...

President Mustafe Omer has been in the same seat for about eight years. Prime Minister Abiy parachuted him from Mogadishu ...

In a rare and revealing account, the former President of Somalia’s South West Administration, Abdiaziz Hassan (Laftagareen) ...

The latest call for national dialogue by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is being received not as a breakthrough, but as a calculated delay tactic, an attempt, to buy time as political pressure mounts ...

A political firestorm is gathering in Mogadishu as former president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed launches one of his most direct and ...

A case that initially appeared to be a routine crackdown on medical fraud has taken a startling and deeply revealing turn in ...

The United Kingdom, which officially reopened its embassy in Mogadishu, Somalia on April 25, 2013, became the first European ...

Somalis—and the world—have recently lost a towering Somali scholar and intellectual: Professor Ali Jimale Ahmed.

By the time official biography catches up with Nuradin Aden Dirie, much of the important story has already happened. The ...

As President Hassan Sheikh Mohamed’s term nears its expiration, there has been a noticeable strategic repositioning of ...