Mogadishu News

Somali pirates are back in the headlines after a Spanish trawler and its 36 member crew has thrust the issue of Somali piracy back into the spotlight. The vessel was released after a ransom payment exceeding $3m was agreed. Does...

Flash floods have rendered homeless thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in camps in and around Mogadishu, the Somali capital, locals say. "The rains that fell on Friday and Saturday [16 and 17 October] destroyed many of the makeshift...

Pirate attacks on shipping lanes around the Horn of Africa have shown no sign of relenting, and the nations policing the seas are struggling to find solutions in a mission that seems to be covering a growing area and time...

Somali pirates on Thursday released a Panama-flagged ship seized earlier this month and alleged to be carrying weapons, an organisation monitoring maritime activity in the region reported. "MV Almeezan, the mysterious weapons ship captured for the second time on 7...

Minneapolis is very different from Mogadishu...It may seem like an odd place to settle if you are from the Horn of Africa. In autumn, Minnesota is cold and grey; in winter it is almost too cold to venture out.

Piracy on the high seas cannot be fought by international naval fleets alone, but requires a regional approach that also deals with its root causes, the UN Special Representative for Somalia said Wednesday. "Piracy is a highly profitable business, we...

The home town of the pirates, Haradhere, is now celebrating a spending boom One of the pirates who took part in the negotiations for the release of the ‘Alakrana’ Basque tuna fishing boat and her crew has claimed that they...

An unnamed woman was stoned to death at Eel-boon in Wajid district, 330 kilometres southwest of Mogadishu, on Wednesday. She was sentenced by an Islamic court after she was found guilty of adultery. The woman was taken to a square,...