Mogadishu's rapid expansion after decades of war is giving unexpected opportunities in a male-dominated society.

A stadium in the violence-prone Somali capital is hosting its first ... fallen into disuse and later became a military base amid civil war. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh) Advertisement ...

Somalia is facing its most severe crisis since the height of its civil war in the 1990s. Al-Shabaab has launched a ...

drawing thousands of people to a facility that had been abandoned for years and later became a base for military — and even extremists — amid civil war. MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A stadium ...

drawing thousands of people to a sports facility that had been abandoned for decades and later became a military base amid the country's civil war. Somali authorities have spent years working to ...

We hear about the bravery of a pilot in the Somali civil war and the East German workers who protested Soviet rule, plus why an astronaut packed his golf clubs in 1971. Show more Max Pearson ...

When the Somali civil war and subsequent government collapse took place in 1991, these men and women went from being star players at the height of their careers to refugees in an instant.