In rural Somalia, livestock is a vital economic and social asset, often serving as a family’s primary source of livelihood.

In Hargeisa, the largest city in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland, traditional and religious values still influence ...

The Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) has officially launched a new round of training focused on empowering female journalists in Somalia. This program, which commenced today in Mogadishu, is part of ...

A strange sight appears on the streets of Mogadishu: a figure dressed all in black, including a cowboy hat, riding a horse ...

In Somalia, where traditionally certain jobs are meant only for men, a group of women are breaking these barriers and re-writing the narrative. The role of traffic police has long been seen as ...

A woman has been stoned to death in Somalia after ... Divorces are common in Somalia but the details of this case are unusual, the BBC Somali Service's Mowliid Haji Abdi says.

So Mariam Mohamed, a Somali woman living in Minnesota, co-founded Hoyo in 2015. It’s a business that provides empowerment and jobs to refugee women through the shared tradition of making sambusas, a ...