Islamist group al-Shabab has claimed the attack, the worst to hit Kismayo since they were forced ... on Somalia's female entrepreneurs and things to do in the city of Las Anod.

“You can’t say things are normal here. We can’t relax,” he said. Lieutenant Colonel says that Kismayo is now a model ... of what the Somali people can do when they have peace,” he ...

Retro white-metal-and-wood hospital beds—arranged in a cluster in the dappled shade of a broad tree—serve as the main emergency ward at Kismayo General Hospital. Emergency is the only kind of ...

Unlike most other youths, he's received training with a local mechanic at a Kismayo garage. "At least here I have got something to learn and do," he says. "Back in Dadaab camp [in Kenya], I was ...

while the untested Kenyans may find themselves forced to wait for other African Union troops to fight their way down the coast to do the hard work in Kismayo. But assuming al-Shabab leave the port ...

“You can’t say things are normal here. We can’t relax,” he said. Lieutenant Colonel says that Kismayo is now a model ... of what the Somali people can do when they have peace,” he ...