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.

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 ...

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 ...

Somalia’s independence in 1960 united two former colonial territories, British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland. Each carried distinct administrative legacies, creating early challenges for unity. In ...

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 ...

All seven attackers who stormed a major prison complex in Mogadishu have been killed following an hours-long gun battle in the largest such assault on the capital in recent months, the Somali ...