Why do they call Mogadishu grainy, ugly and hellish? It is a difficult place, where war is tattooed on hands and tongues, but you have to have loved a place to see its true colors.
AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Mortars fired by Islamic militants slammed into Somalia's airport as the president was boarding a plane Thursday, sparking ...
AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN and JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A French security agent kidnapped by insurgents in Somalia last month said he escaped Wednesday while his captors slept, th...
BBC News | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
Two French security advisers seized in Somalia this week have been split up and are now being held by two different hardline groups, reports say....
BBC NEWS | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
Two Europeans, believed to be French, have been kidnapped from a hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu....
The Guardian | Posted 08.07.2009 | World
Fighting between Islamist militias and government-aligned forces has caused 204,000 people to flee Mogadishu since May and forced the closure of some ...
Al Jazeera English | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
Thousands of people have fled the Somali capital Mogadishu amid escalating fighting between government forces and opposition fighters....
Huffington Post Contributor | Hassan Noor | Posted 07.24.2009 | World
Oxfam Humanitarian Coordinator Hassan Noor has just come back from a field trip in Somalia. The latest fighting around the capital Mogadishu has had a...
BBC NEWS | Posted 07.18.2009 | World
Mogadishu's police chief has been killed as government forces attacked insurgent bases in the Somali capital....
allAfrica | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
Since fighting broke out last month between Government forces and armed opposition groups, almost 100,000 people have been driven from their homes in ...
DAILY NATION | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
The statement last week of Kenya's intention to help "crush" the insurgency in Somalia is the strongest government response so far to the crisis in th...
The Guardian | Ghaith Abdul | Posted 06.29.2009 | World
In a rare dispatch from war-ravaged Mogadishu, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad found a city daring to hope for a break from years of violence. Then the fighting res...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
I hesitate to say that Somalia is lost, but it is unlikely that it can be saved without major intervention from the West, which unfortunately, is unlikely.
BBC | Posted 06.18.2009 | World
Hardline Islamist militants have captured a strategically important town north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, eyewitnesses say....
Nicole Stremlau | Posted 06.15.2009 | World
Somalilanders rightly pride themselves on succeeding without international intervention and they do not take their accomplishment of peace lightly but they may yet face one of their greatest tests.
AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 06.15.2009 | World
NAIROBI, Kenya — After months of hopeful glimmers in one of the most explosive countries in the world, violence again is roiling Somalia as mort...
AP | MOHAMED SHEIKH NOR | Posted 06.13.2009 | World
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Pro-government militias and Islamic insurgents battled in Somalia's capital Wednesday for a fourth day, as an insurgent lea...
Nicole Stremlau | Posted 05.17.2009 | World
International collaboration and mutual understanding are key, as Somalia's concerns are best addressed from a Somali perspective.
allAfrica | Posted 05.08.2009 | World
World Health Day on 7 April is just another difficult day for medical personnel in Mogadishu, capital of war-torn Somalia, where threats and intimidat...
Foreign Policy | Jeffrey Gettleman | Posted 03.22.2009 | World
In more than a dozen trips to Somalia over the past two and a half years, I've come to rewrite my own definition of chaos. I've felt the incandescent ...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 03.07.2009 | World
The Horn of Africa looms as the next Afghanistan. It's time for our new President to take a hard look.
AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 03.07.2009 | World
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Masked men shot and killed the director of Somalia's largest media organization, HornAfrik, in the center of the Somali cap...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 03.06.2009 | World
The Times reported yesterday that twenty people were killed when a roadside bomb exploded in Mogadishu, and African Union troops fired back.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 03.01.2009 | World
Get your talking heads on television before the other guy does, slant the story your way, and maybe the American public will let you off the hook.
DAILY NATION | Reuters News Service | Posted 02.27.2009 | World
Somalia's hardline Islamist insurgent group al Shabaab said today it had introduced sharia law in Baidoa, a day after taking the town that had been a ...
K'naan | Posted 10.29.2009 | Impact