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Despite billions of dollars in international support, Somalia's army has melted in the face of a months-long offensive by the ...
"I didn't know if she would make it." When Faduma Mohamed gave birth to her daughter at Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu, the silence that followed was terrifying. Her premature daughter was tiny, ...
Artist Maslah Abdi Dahi has made it his mission to nurture creativity in Somalia's Mogadishu, where artistic pursuits are ...
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 capital, Mogadishu, is experiencing a rebirth. It may still be fragile at this stage, but after two decades of war and anarchy, the Indian Ocean city is coming back to life following the ...
Xaawo, Somalia- Heavy fighting broke out Monday in the town of Beled-Xaawo, Gedo region, southern Somalia, following the deployment of Abdiraashiid Janan, recently appointed by the federal government ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s defense ministry said officials were investigating an explosion at a military training school in the capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, an incident claimed by the ...
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.
MOGADISHU, Somalia-- The death toll from Saturday's truck bombing in Somalia's capital is now over 300, the director of an ambulance service said Monday, ...
Somali forces have ended the siege at an upscale hotel in the country’s capital Mogadishu, police told CNN, following an attack from unidentified gunmen that left dozens dead.
"And, yeah, I'm optimistic about the future of Somalia," he says. And he's not the only one at Mogadishu's Liido Beach to express optimism about a country that's often written off as a failed state.
Clashes in Mogadishu throw Somalia’s political crisis into dangerous new phase February 19, 2021 Somalis protest the government and the delay of the country’s election in the capital of ...