Al-Shabab gunmen have stormed and laid siege to a hotel in central Somalia as government officials and tribal elders met to ...

He had just been born when Somalia's last president, a cultish dictator named Mohamed Siad Barre, was overthrown and the country descended into decades of sustained anarchy. He is one of an entire ...

MOGADISHU, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Somalia said on Thursday its army and allied clan militias have fought off coordinated raids on villages by the Islamist al Shabaab armed group in the country's south ...