The terrorism case landed on the public docket in Federal District Court in Brooklyn last year like a riddle. Prosecutors charged three foreign men arrested overseas with supporting a Somali terrorist group. ... Read more
A famine in Somalia in 2011 killed an estimated 260,000 people, half of them under the age of 6, according to a report to be published this week. The estimate is more than double previous assessments of ... Read more
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to temporarily rescind part of a 21-year-old arms embargo on Somalia, the East African country once considered synonymous with warlordism, ... Read more
An American delegation led by the administrator of the Agency for International Development, Rajiv Shah, met with Somali leaders in Mogadishu, the capital, on Thursday and announced $20 million in new ... Read more
NAIROBI, Kenya — The Somali government, in a move that has outraged human rights groups, has charged a woman who said she was gang-raped by soldiers with making a false accusation and having ... Read more
Somalia has been the paradigm of failed states since before 1993, when militants shot down two Black Hawk helicopters and killed 18 American soldiers in Mogadishu. One of the world’s poorest, most violent ... Read more
The United States on Thursday recognized the government of Somalia for the first time since 1991. Somalia has not had an effective central government for two decades. But a new Somali administration took ... Read more