As the ongoing civil war intensified, Omar's family fled to Kenya as refugees, and the northwestern region of Somalia declared independence as the breakaway state of Somaliland. In the years ...

Security forces in Somalia say they killed all six attackers who laid siege to a hotel in the central town of Beledweyne and later killed at least 50 al-Shabab militants in airstrikes. Speaking to ...

Amidst the lingering shadows of the Somali civil war, Qaali, an asthmatic single mother of seven, braves the slums of Kampala, striving daily in a restaurant to shield her family from the specters ...