Michael Scott Moore is a journalist who traveled to Somalia to write a book about the history of piracy in the Horn of Africa. It did not go as planned. (more…)

Nairobi is the 97th most expensive home-rental city in the world after renowned destinations like Bangkok and Cairo, according to Bloomberg World Airbnb cost Index. (more…)

MOGADISHU -- At least six Somali soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb explosion near Somali's southern town of Wanlaweyn on Wednesday evening, police said. (more…)

Mogadishu, 26/07/2018 (banooda)-Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management Director was detained in connection with allegations of corruption. (more…)

Mogadishu (banooda)-Yesterday's speech, the Minister of Education said his Ministry doesn’t recognize all univerties in Somalia including the National University which was successfully reopened by the gov't. (more…)

Militant Islamists have stormed a military base in southern Somalia after detonating a suicide car bomb. (more…)

MOGADISHU, -- Somali security forces on Saturday rounded up several suspects following the car bombing in Mogadishu in which one security official was killed and three others injured. (more…)

In 2012, Somalia introduced a new constitution that was supposed to ban female genital mutilation. But a few years later, there had been little follow-up, and UNICEF still estimated that up to 98 percent of girls and women there had been cut. (more…)

It is the biggest Labor Party branch in Victoria, with a membership that has leapt from 13 to more than 325 in the past decade. (more…)

The Somali-American teenage boys who were wrongfully handcuffed and detained by police in Minnesota have spoken out for the first time, with one of them calling himself a victim of discrimination. (more…)