The contests are viewed on thousands of smartphone screens across Somalia and beyond, and usually feature two rivals who look like typical fresh-faced Generation Z influencers. Side-by-side on the ...

HARGEISA, Somalia - A new era will be ushered in the Somaliland region after the electoral commission declared Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi alias Irro as the president-elect, ending the six-day wait ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Voting was underway Wednesday in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland in a key presidential ...

Two Somali pirates have been sentenced to 30 years in prison for kidnapping American journalist Michael Scott Moore and holding him hostage for 977 days, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Michael Scott Moore, a German American journalist, was abducted in January 2012 in Galkayo, Somalia, 400 miles northeast of the capital, Mogadishu. Two Somali men who prosecutors called pirates ...

Somalia has declared an Ethiopian diplomat working in Mogadishu a persona non grata. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Somalia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused the diplomat of engaging in ...

Finland is suspending its bilateral development cooperation programme with Somalia. Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Ville Tavio (Finns) made the announcement at a press conference on ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Voting was underway Wednesday in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland in a key presidential election that was delayed for two years. Local media showed voters waiting ...

Ramsey Khalid Ismael, 24, better known by his online alias, Johnny Somali, is a livestreamer who hurls provocative and offensive insults while he travels abroad, including in U.S. allies South ...

Explainer-What's Behind Deteriorating Somalia-Ethiopia Relations? By Sonia Rao NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somalia has announced the expulsion of an Ethiopian diplomat, marking a further souring of ...

Somali police violently dispersed a group of young people from South West State who were celebrating the anniversary of their ...

ANKARA, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Turkey's state-owned energy company TPAO and Somalia's petroleum authority signed a deal on joint onshore hydrocarbon exploration in Somalia, Turkish Energy Minister ...