The European Union Naval Force (EUNAVFOR) has patrolled Somali waters since 2008, supposedly to combat piracy and secure trade routes. While piracy was a real threat in the late 2000s, the mission has ...

President Biden campaigned on a platform to end "the never-ending wars." But the New York Times is reporting that he is sending hundreds of U.S. troops to Somalia to fight al-Shabab extremists that ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Yusuf Garaad left his comfortable home and job as head of the BBC Somali Service in London to run for the presidency of Somalia when the Horn of Africa nation embraced a plan to ...

Gunmen and weapons bring new misery to refugees seeking relief from East African famine. A security guard controls the line of women refugees into a food distribution center run by the World Food ...

On New Year’s day the UN authorized a new peacekeeping force of 11,900 troops. In February the U.S. carried out airstrikes against Islamic terrorists in Puntland, which is in northern Somalia.

In 1991 Siad Barre, the then president of Somalia, was overthrown and fled to Kenya where he was smoked out by journalists while staying in one of the top hotels in Nairobi. It is an open question how ...

To avoid the politically insecure coast of Somalia, Kenya is seeking an alternative route on which to lay the TEAMs fiber optic cable. The government is considering laying an extra 90 kilometers of ...

DHOBLEY, Somalia — Somalis with new uniforms and guns, reportedly purchased by Kenya’s government, are supposed to be guarding the Kenya-Somalia border against Islamist insurgents. But ...