Somalia

Islamist militants in Somalia are stopping convoys of food reaching more than 360,000 displaced people, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) says. The agency says trucks travelling from the capital

Somalia's Foreign Affairs Minister said that the country will close three out of its five embassies in Europe, citing funding difficulties. The embassies in Paris, Berlin, and Somalia’s mission to

ADDIS ABABA – The Spanish government called Sunday on the international community to prevent Somalia from becoming a cultivation zone for terrorism and piracy, and it analyzed with Mauritania and

STOCKHOLM — Ten subway stops from downtown Stockholm is "little Mogadishu," a drab suburb of the Swedish capital where radical Islamists are said to be recruiting the sons of Somali

Efforts to improve the human rights situation in Arab countries have amounted to little more than broken promises since Sept. 11, according to the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies.

Somalia’s rebel Hisb-ul-Islam group had a man stoned to death for adultery in front of hundreds of people and a woman flogged for her relationship with him, Sheikh Osman Fidow, a security official

My first encounter with Pakistan in 1993 took my innocence. I discovered a culture pervaded with sexuality – sexuality in a very negative sense.

Absolutely everything, from the most trivial day-to-day matters to the most earth-shaking issues, had to do with sex – at least where girls and women were concerned. The same fixation on sex has found its way to the West through immigration.

As rampant piracy continues to plague the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia, and Islamic insurgents foment violence and instability inside the country, the European Union is hoping to bolster the

The Islamic clerics of Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a have ordered the people in Abudwaq district in central Somalia not to watch films, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Wednesday. The clerics said publicly