Only four out of 10 Somali children attend schools
The authorities in Somalia are launching a campaign to get one million more children into schools.
The Go 2 School initiative started simultaneously in the capital Mogadishu and in the main cities...
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somali militants attacked a restaurant near Mogadishu's seat of government for the second time in less than a year on Saturday, detonating two large blasts that killed at least 15 people and wounded nearly two dozen,...
Barclays Bank has been criticised by the UK's leading think tank on international development for its decision to close its 250 money-transfer businesses in Somalia.
The decision was described by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) as "unwarranted, unnecessary and a threat"...
The Twitter account of Somalia's Al Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents was suspended Friday, the second time this year the Islamists have been pushed off the site.
A message from Twitter on the English-language @HSMPress1 account read that the account was suspended,...
MOGADISHU - Somalia said on Friday that international investigators commissioned by its government had cleared it of corruption accusations leveled by United Nations monitors.
The Horn of Africa country is striving to shake off the tag of one of the...
African Refugees Try to Warm Up to Bandy, a Cousin of Hockey
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By NICLAS ROLANDER
BORLÄNGE, Sweden—Sports fans whose heartstrings were tugged by the Jamaican bobsled team back in the 1980s...
More than $215 million a year is sent to Somalia by relatives in the United States, with much of that originating in Minnesota.
The process, which involves sending cash through money-transfer operators, is known as remittance and has become the...
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, warning that Somalia could slide back into being a failed state, called Tuesday on countries around the world to provide the African Union-led peacekeeping force there with attack helicopters and armored troop carriers to take the...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) Chatting women sitting outside makeshift homes at night is a new scene in a once-dark refugee camp in the Somali capital. In a city where darkness brings the threat of attack, recently installed solar lights are...
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud escaped unhurt Tuesday from an ambush on his heavily armoured convoy claimed by Al-Qaeda linked Islamists, the latest attack targeting the internationally backed leader.
Shebab gunmen claimed to have ambushed the convoy...