WASHINGTON - A total of 15 Al-Shabaab terrorists have been designated by seven members of the Terrorist Financing Targeting ...

Since the collapse of the Somali state in 1991, extremist groups have exploited the ensuing instability to establish reigns ...

The UN Security Council is due to vote in mid-May on the “hybrid” funding model based on Resolution 2719, which allows African Union, or AU, peacekeeping missions in the continent to be at least ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Mogadishu has begun registering voters for its upcoming local elections in June — the first such polls in the capital in over 55 years. However, the process is being overseen by ...

The last election in 2022 followed the 4.5 clan-based system, which allocated equal parliamentary shares to four major clans ...

Some State Department officials have proposed closing the embassy in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, as a precaution after ...

Since February, the terrorist group al-Shabaab has been on the offensive in Somalia, with many fearing that they aim to take Mogadishu, the capital. Following a 2022 government offensive in the middle ...

I had a significant moment of reflection recently when an academic researcher reached out to discuss a study on marginalized clans in Somalia.

The Somali-Ethiopian War is also sometimes called ... early allies in Siad Barre's regime and "one of the most powerful [clans] in the country." Not long after the Somali-Ethiopian War, a group ...

while Somalia’s federal government draws support from a broader mix of clans, including the Hawiye and Darod. Both regions are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, with clan loyalties amplifying the ...