Imagine a place where your family name is more important than your ideas. This is Somalia, where clan loyalty is more powerful than any law. The current voting system is like a dance everyone knows.

The relationship is ongoing. “This is a third-rail conversation, but the largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer,” the third source said. “There is an issue here that is real, and if ...

Somaliland’s foreign minister responds to Abdisaid Ali’s essay with a reminder that Somaliland’s statehood is not theoretical ...

Dhaxalreeb: An Academic Journal of Somaliland Centre for African Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1 (March 2025), pp. 17-57 (41 pages) This paper explores the historical and structural marginalization of the ...

Pirates off the coasts of Somalia have hijacked a commercial vessel for the first time in 18 months, raising fears of a resurgence of armed attacks along the coasts of Somalia.

Somali security forces and others gather and search for bodies near destroyed buildings at the scene of Saturday’s blast, in Mogadishu, Somalia Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017. The death toll from the huge ...