December 3

• Somalia: Somaliand Rising From the Ruins of Somalia

  As Somalia starts to emerge from its quagmire of instability and chaos, 20 years of relative peace and stability are starting to pay dividends for its close neighbour Somaliland,... Read more »

November 21

• Somalia: Tough Foreign Policy Challenges for 'Iron Lady'

  As little-known politician Fauzia Yusuf Haji Adan was sworn in as Somalia's first female foreign minister and deputy prime minister on Monday Nov. 19, the stateswoman who hails... Read more »

October 19

• Somalia: Kenya Pushes Dubiously Against Islamists

  A Kenyan military advance into Somali territory to push back Islamic militants has had some measured military success - but is not without controversy. Read more »

September 20

• Somalia: Donors Urged to Give Space to New Govt

  Both the U.S. government and the United Nations warned Wednesday that new fighting in a key rebel-held area of Somalia needed to ensure the safety of civilians, in a battle that... Read more »

July 20

• Somalia: 'Famine May Have Ended, but for Us Hunger Has Not'

  One-year-old Miriam Jama is a symbol of life in Somalia after the famine. Born just as the United Nations World Food Programme declared famine in this Horn of Africa nation a year... Read more »

July 18

• Somalia: UN Warns of Impending Humanitarian Crisis

  The United Nations has called for sustained aid efforts in Somalia to prevent the war-torn country from experiencing another humanitarian crisis as more than three million people... Read more »

• Mauritius: Probe Exposes Arms Trafficking

  An investigation by the Conflict Awareness Project has exposed an active arms trading network of associates of former trafficker Viktor Bout that involves companies from the United... Read more »

April 23

• Somalia: U.S. Patriot Act Kept Country Starving [analysis]

  When war-torn Somalia was also ravaged by a drought-induced famine last year, which killed tens of thousands and displaced over a million people, international media was quick to... Read more »

April 16

• Somalia: Tighter Security Ignores Root Causes of Somali Crises [analysis]

  As Western forces step up their military presence in Somalia, locals and experts are worried that the country - struggling under multiple crises from piracy, to drought - is doomed... Read more »

February 26

• Somalia: NGOs Urge 'Solution From Within'

  While the international community discusses Somalia's future in London and Brussels, European and Somali non-governmental organisations are calling for a radical shift from a... Read more »

February 23

• Somalia: Somalis Hopeful of London Meeting Despite Media Scepticism

  With an international meeting aimed at resolving the political crisis in Somalia set to take place Thursday, the local media in this East African nation is awash with scepticism,... Read more »

February 22

• Somalia: Europe, Asia Plunder Fishing Grounds, Says Report

  The international community has failed to grapple with the real underlying political and economic issues facing the troubled East African nation of Somalia, which has been... Read more »

February 15

• Somalia: Women Say 'Consider Us for the Country's Leadership'

  As Somalia's transitional government and various stakeholders meet Wednesday to discuss the inclusion of the country's clans in the new government, women politicians have called... Read more »

January 5

• Somalia: Taking Schools Back From Militants

  Schools are beginning to re-open slowly in areas of capital Mogadishu that were until recently controlled by the militant Islamic group al-Shabaab. But an estimated 80 percent of... Read more »

• Somalia: Rebuilding Among the Rubble

  With vehicles and donkey carts packed with their belongings, Somalis are returning, four years after they fled, to their partially standing, bullet-scarred and mortar-shelled... Read more »

November 17, 2011

• Somalia: Aid Dwindles, Disease Spreads

  Doctors in Mogadishu are warning that famine victims in internally displaced camps have become vulnerable to contagious diseases like cholera and measles, as conditions here are... Read more »

October 18, 2011

• Somalia: Somalia - Death Threats Fail to Stop Women's Basketball

  When Al-Shabaab militants called the Somali national women's basketball team captain, Suweys Ali Jama, and told her she had two options: to be killed or to stop playing basketball,... Read more »

October 6, 2011

• Somalia: Al-Shabaab Vows More Attacks

  Al-Shabaab has vowed to carry out more attacks in Mogadishu following a vehicle bomb blast that killed scores of people in the Somali capital. Read more »

October 5, 2011

• Somalia: Rape - the Hidden Side of the Famine Crisis

  When Aisha Diis* and her five children fled their home in Somalia seeking aid from the famine devastating the region, she could not have known the dangers of the journey, or even... Read more »

September 22, 2011

• East Africa: U.S. to Deploy Drones Against African Militants - Reports

  As Somalia undergoes its worst famine in six decades and Yemen slides into civil war, the administration of President Barack Obama is expanding its network of bases to carry out... Read more »

September 20, 2011

• Kenya: Dadaab - a Daily Prayer for Complication-Free Births

  Dr. Beldina Gikundi's daily prayer is that the handful of malnourished pregnant Somali women who go into labour that day at the Dadaab refugee complex do not have complications,... Read more »

September 7, 2011

• Somalia: Armed Militia Grab the Famine Business

  Armed groups are withholding aid and preventing Somali famine refugees from leaving camps to ensure the continued supply of food by aid agencies that they are presently selling on... Read more »

September 5, 2011

• Somalia: Food Aid Stolen From Famine Victims

  Masses of food meant for famine victims in Somalia are being stolen, an investigation has revealed. Read more »

August 26, 2011

• Africa: Global Warming Behind Somali Drought

  The severe drought in the Horn of Africa, which has caused the death of at least 30,000 children and is affecting some 12 million people, especially in Somalia, is a direct... Read more »

August 19, 2011

• Somalia: Massive School Dropouts As Famine Continues

  Jamaal Abdi, an eight-year-old boy at the Badbaado camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, would like to have an education. He has his own dreams for the future. Read more »