Voice of America’s Somali Service, which has been providing extensive coverage of the devastating drought in Africa, is now being offered to mobile phone users throughout Great Britain. The new ...

A United Nations report on Somalia says no side in the country's conflict has the strength to impose its will on the others and stabilize the chaotic, war-torn nation. The report, compiled by the U.N.

Al Shabaab militants have destroyed a grave that belonged to a well known Sufi cleric and elder in Mogadishu today. Shiekh Muhyaddin Eli had been a very influential cleric with a leading role in ...

UN special envoy to Somalia has lauded the efforts of Somali government leaders to normalize the situation of Somalia in the past year despite enormous challenges. The United Nations Special ...

A Somali factional leader claimed to have hired a security firm in Germany to provide 100+ former German soldiers to work for him in Somalia Factional leader, Abdinor Ahmed Darman, says the private ...

The Deputy Leader of the insurgent group Hisbul Islam, Sheikh Hassan Abdullahi Hersi known as “Hassan Turki”, has defected on Monday to join the Al-Shabab ...

VOA has conducted telephone surveys about opinions on key sections of the constitution among some 3,000 adults from all regions of Somalia who volunteered to participate after hearing about the poll, ...

Somalia's president has declared a famine in his drought-stricken country and called for more international help to deal with the crisis. While touring a displaced-persons camp in the capital, ...

Police in western India have detained 18 suspected Somali pirates, the second batch of pirates captured in the same area this month. Police say they took the 18 suspects into custody late Sunday, ...

Pirates told reporters that the MV Thor Nexus and its crew of 27 Thais were set free Monday after three-and-a-half months in captivity. The 20,000-ton ship was hijacked off the coast Oman December 25 ...

An official of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government says the administration categorically condemns al-Shabab’s threats after the hard-line Islamist group ordered the World Food Program (WFP) to ...

The United Nations refugee agency is asking international donors to provide an additional $60 million to help Somali refugees. The United Nations refugee agency is asking international donors to ...