Somalia

MOGADISHU — The hardline Shebab Islamists who control a large swathe of Somalia said Monday they are banning mobile money transfers in the regions under their control. "After confirming the risk of using the

A British consultant working for Save the Children in Somalia was abducted by masked gunmen last night along with his native colleague, the aid agency said today. The pair were taken from a

Once again a few bad apples from the Minnesota Somali community make it into the news. To the western mind this does not make sense as we discussed in our last article, it is part of an upside down world

At least 5,000 women a year are killed or driven to suicide by fathers or brothers who think that, according to tribal tradition, the inferior female has shamed the family. It is most worrying that

OSLO, Norway - A Somali-born Norwegian citizen pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of sending over $30,000 to top leaders of an al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group at the start of the first trial

Islamist fighters in Somalia have seized food from the World Food Programme (WFP) from markets in Mogadishu and burnt more than 500 bags of maize and wheat. Sheikh Ali Mohamed Hussein, a leader of

A Swedish man suspected of planning an attack in Somalia was arrested in Stockholm Tuesday, security police said, a month after the arrest of another Swedish national on the same charges. "The

Somalia, which has been without a functioning government for almost two decades, serves as a warning for what could happen to other failed states. Rival Islamic militias battle for control of the

This screening of Paula Heredia’s documentary about the grassroots movement to put an end to the practice of genital mutilation or FGM in African and sub-Saharan nations will be followed by a panel

When Dahir Abdi joined the Somali extremist group Al-Shabab early last year, his motive had more to do with money than with God. Back home in the Barawa district of southern Somalia, his parents