Somalia suffered from civil war for years and is basically ungovernable. Most of the nation is desert, and there is rarely rain. Seventy percent of the land is used for agriculture, which is ...

The Dadaab refugee complex was established in 1991, when refugees fleeing the civil war in Somalia started to cross the border into Kenya. A second large influx occurred in 2011, when some 130,000 ...

The U.S. military has conducted coordinated airstrikes against Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the ...