Hassan Ali Kheyre, a former aid worker and oil executive, was named prime minister of Somalia Thursday by the country's new President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed
A former prime minister who holds dual Somali-U.S. citizenship was declared Somalia's new president Wednesday, immediately taking the oath of office as the...
Somalia's groundbreaking presidential election moved into a second round Wednesday as the number of candidates dropped from 21 to three, while a security...
Somalia is to hold its presidential election Wednesday after numerous delays, with ongoing security concerns and warnings of famine topping the agenda for the...
Colorful campaign posters in this seaside capital give the impression that Somalia’s presidential election Wednesday will be like any other.
Somalia's al-Shabab Islamist militant group has called on its followers to kill clan elders, officials and lawmakers taking part in the parliamentary election...
Kenya's fight to hold on to potentially lucrative Indian Ocean oil and gas reserves, threatened by a maritime border spat with Somalia, goes before the U.N.'s...
A former Somalia prime minister who lost a long U.S. court battle over accusations of killing and torture has died, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud announced...
Turkey's president opened a new Turkish embassy in Somalia's capital Friday amid heavy security less than two days after militants attacked a hotel in the...
The U.N. Security Council and Western donors have urged Somalia's parliament to speed up approval of new election rules to ensure an August vote is held on...
Kenya's military says it has killed 19 fighters from the Somali extremist group Al-Shabab who were attempting to ambush Somali national troops
Somalia's president says military forces have made inroads in their fight against al-Shabab militants but the key to defeating them lies in providing better...
Fighters for the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram have been trained in Somalia on Africa's eastern coast before returning to West Africa, Somalia's...
Somalia is no longer a failed state but a recovering fragile country, the top U.N. official for war-torn Somalia has said. In the last three years the country...
Somalia is no longer a failed state but a recovering fragile country, the top U.N. official for war-torn Somalia has said
A Somali journalist was seriously wounded when a bomb exploded under her car in Mogadishu on Thursday, police and colleagues said.
Somalia's Shebab fighters have warned they will "cut the throat" of members who shift allegiance from Al-Qaeda to ISIS, amid reports some factions have...
At least 12 people were killed in the Somali capital Sunday after al-Shebab gunmen used a vehicle packed with explosives to blast their way inside a hotel,...
Somalia's president called on Islamist Shebab fighters Wednesday to surrender amid reports factions have shifted allegiance from Al-Qaeda to ISIS.
Somalia's parliamentary speaker has withdrawn an impeachment motion brought against President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud - the latest crisis to threaten the...