His reinstatement is viewed as a strategic move by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to reassert control over Somalia’s ...

AMISOM (African Union Mission in Somalia) was launched in 2007 as a peacekeeping force to combat al-Shabaab and support the ...

After more than a decade of conflict and instability, an estimated 4.8 million people remain displaced across Yemen – many of them for years. Another 19.5 million people require humanitarian ...

The offensive al-Shabaab launched in late February 2025 marks its most ambitious push in years, reversing government gains ...

Somalia launched a war against Ethiopia with the objective of taking control of the Ogaden region. With superior ground ...

Tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea have escalated in recent months, prompting concerns over the possibility of renewed ...

When the wider world thinks of Somalia, the first things that are most likely to come to mind are conflict and the pirates who have threatened ships around the Horn of Africa in recent years .

The fragile balances of East Africa, which has been frequently associated with political crises recently, the security of the ...

As ever more Ethiopian migrants make dangerous crossings to the Gulf, they encounter a dark transnational economy in which ...

Somalia’s government has increasingly turned to Turkey to repel al-Shabab, as America’s diminished focus on Africa scrambles ...

Islamist militant group al Shabaab said it was behind the attack and that it had killed as many as 30 soldiers and wounded 50 ...