Dahabo and Abdi had a daughter, Hawa, and as was the norm for the Somali, Abdi's first name became Hawa's last name. At the tender age of seven, like many Somali girls of the time, Hawa was subjected ...

The electoral commission has scheduled municipal elections to take place in June across ...

U.S. airstrikes killed 12 al Shabaab militants in central Somalia and destroyed a ship carrying weapons for the al Qaeda-linked group, the Somali government said on Thursday, following recent advances ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The Somalia -based militant group al-Shabab on Wednesday attacked a strategic town that serves as a major base for government troops, raising new concerns about the ...

The American mission in Mogadishu is the only U.S. outpost in the country ... Trump is increasing his threats against Harvard ...

Some State Department officials have proposed closing the embassy in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, as a precaution after recent gains by Al Shabab militants. By Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A Somali internally-displaced (IDP) child sits ...

A Somali internally-displaced (IDP) child sits outside makeshift homes in Maslah camp, on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh) ...

MANILA, Philippines — The government’s legal education regulator has ordered the closure of the College of Law of the University of Manila (UM) because of its “dismal performance” in bar ...

Addis Ababa, — The African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) revealed that Al Shabaab militants fired several mortar bombs into its Base Camp in Mogadishu on Sunday ...

Mogadishu (WDN)– This morning, mortar shells once again struck near Aden Adde International Airport and residential neighborhoods in Mogadishu’s Wadajir District. The attack wounded innocent civilians ...

The Somali intelligence agency announced on Saturday that more than 80 terrorists, including senior al-Shabaab operatives, have been killed during week-long operations against the al-Qaeda ...