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An Australian photojournalist recently released after being held hostage for 15 months in Somalia said Wednesday he was trying to highlight the plight of those less fortunate when he was kidnapped. Nigel Brennan and Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout were kidnapped...

Rozanne Chorlton. “So Somalia on track to be measles- and tetanus-free,” Ms. Chorlton told the briefing, underscoring the need to keep up this level of activity. “Really big things can happen in Somalia in terms of humanitarian service delivery, in...

Somalia's hardline al Shabaab rebels have prepared two suicide bombers disguised as military and police officers who are planning to strike Mogadishu's seaport and airport, the Somali police said on Monday. A suicide bomber disguised as a woman in a...

After all, what, you think they do it because it's fun to be a pirate?...They're do it for the scrilla, the scratch, the cold, hard cash...A parcel of land here that sold for $12,000 two years ago now costs more...

Somalia's government called on Saturday for an international peace plan like President Barack Obama's new Afghan strategy, saying it would be more effective and far cheaper than current efforts to combat Somali piracy. "We accept that ... the situation in...

Thus, when the second batch of medical graduates in those 18 years gathers for a ceremony, one expects a celebration...Scores have died, amongst them the health minister, the minister for higher education and the minister of education. No group has...

Somalia has lacked a functioning central government since 1991. Al-Shabab and other anti-government groups regularly attack government troops and African Union peacekeepers, in efforts to force them out of the country. Al-Shabab and allied groups control much of southern and...

The UN and the US support a government that has little presence in Somalia. The area of Puntland is far better organised than the rest of Somalia even though the pirates are a problem. It seems the only groups that...

Militant Islamist group al-Shabab has denied responsibility for a deadly suicide blast Thursday that killed at least 22 people, including 3 government ministers and a number of Somalia's educated elite. The nation's embattled president addressed the country Thursday evening to...