How has dysfunctional Somalia managed to develop such an outstanding telecoms network? The answer lies in the state’s very weakness. Three decades of chaos and conflict have forced hundreds of ...

Surviving Black Hawk Down - the official Netflix trailer for its coming docuseries, which goes way back to the heinous Battle ...

Africa's easternmost country is one of the most dangerous and corrupt places in the world, acting as a breeding ground for warlords, pirates and kidnappers.

Saturday's SEAL raid occurred 20 years after the "Black Hawk Down" battle in Mogadishu in which a mission to capture Somali warlords in the capital went awry after militiamen shot down two U.S.

Ethiopia has not commented on the Somali claim, but said the two countries had agreed to "strengthen bilateral relations". The two neighbours had been at loggerheads since last January when ...

Somali authorities could not immediately be reached for comment. On Tuesday, security forces in Somalia said they had repulsed an attack by Islamic State suicide bombers on a military base in ...

Authorities in the Somali autonomous region of Puntland said eight foreign militants were killed following an attack by Islamic fighters on security forces early Tuesday. Residents said the attack ...

Authorities in the Somali autonomous region of Puntland said eight foreign militants were killed following an attack by Islamic fighters on security forces early Tuesday. Residents said the attack ...

Vladimir Putin came to power as a professed reformer on the eve of 2000, and has since become one of the 21st century's most prolific warlords. DW looks at how EU, US and NATO relations with Putin ...

As she and the other survivors arrived in Mogadishu, the Somali president’s special envoy on refugee affairs expressed hope for their future and said the government would help. “They assured ...

This marked the disintegration of the Somali state, which quickly devolved into clan-based rivalries and a civil war. The absence of a central government opened space for warlords to take over ...