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.

Islam in Somali history : fact and fiction / Mohamed Haji Mukhtar -- Aspects of the Benadir cultural history : the case of the Bravan Ulama / Mohamed M. Kassim -- The invention of Gosha : slavery, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...