Shabaab, Al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, highlighted last year’s brazen assault on Mogadishu’s Godka Jilacow prison, operated by Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency. In the video, ...

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A fuel shortage and a surge in petrol prices in Mogadishu are forcing tuk-tuk drivers in Somalia’s capital to park their ...

A mother and her son play in the sea at Liido Beach in Mogadishu, Somalia. Despite decades of conflict and ongoing security threats, some Somalis are carving out a middle-class lifestyle in the Somali ...

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At the end of the movie “Black Hawk Down,” Chief Warrant Officer Mike Durant (played by actor Ron Eldard) is sitting in a dark room as a prisoner of the Somali warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid, as a ...

MOGADISHU, April 10 (Reuters) - Turkey's deep-sea drilling vessel Cagri Bey arrived off the coast of Mogadishu on Friday to launch the country's first overseas deep-sea oil exploration project. Turkey ...

The UK ambassador to the Federal Republic of Somalia, Charles King, offers a peek inside the day-to-day realities at one of the world’s most dangerous diplomatic postings. There aren’t many diplomatic ...

Making large scale action films can be challenging for any production, but for “Escape From Mogadishu” producer Hyejung Kang, the challenge wasn’t the budget or even the scale of the film but not ...

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