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.

STUTTGART, Germany — U.S. Africa Command has now launched more annual airstrikes in Somalia this year than at any time in the organization’s nearly 20-year history. As of Monday, AFRICOM’s airstrike ...

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, ...

Dhaxalreeb: An Academic Journal of Somaliland Centre for African Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1 (March 2025), pp. 17-57 (41 pages) This paper explores the historical and structural marginalization of the ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) The most powerful bomb blast ever witnessed in Somalia’s capital killed 276 people with around 300 others injured, the country’s information minister said early Monday, making ...