Imagine a place where your family name is more important than your ideas. This is Somalia, where clan loyalty is more powerful than any law. The current voting system is like a dance everyone knows.

Before the establishment of the Islamic State in Somalia in 2015, the Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab had established itself in the north. The small group had extensive connections to smuggling ...

Rochester’s Somali community marked Somalia’s 66th Independence Day at Parcel 5 with music, food, lawn games, anthem singing, ...

NEW YORK - Somalia is set to become a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, a major milestone in the stabilization of the country which has struggled for the last 3 decades due ...

Somalia’s independence in 1960 united two former colonial territories, British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland. Each carried distinct administrative legacies, creating early challenges for unity. In ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Five hundred years ago, an Imam who ruled much of what is now Somalia, led a daring invasion of Christian Ethiopia, looting monasteries, burning down churches and slaying all who ...

America has always been shaped by immigration. Scandinavians settled the Upper Midwest, Italians and Irish built cities along the East Coast, and Asian Americans transformed the West. Each group ...

A group of Islamist courts have seized power across much of Somalia. Many outside observers are anxiously watching—and interfering—as the power struggle plays out between the Islamists and the ...

NAIROBI, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Five hundred years ago, an Imam who ruled much of what is now Somalia, led a daring invasion of Christian Ethiopia, looting monasteries, burning down churches and slaying ...