The Horn of Africa’s geopolitical chessboard is increasingly defined by rapid shifts, strategic partnerships, and alarming contradictions. At the center of ...

The Minister of Information, Culture, and Tourism of Somalia, Daud Aweys Jama, welcomed the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Representative to Somalia, James Swan, to his office on ...

A strange sight appears on the streets of Mogadishu: a figure dressed all in black, including a cowboy hat, riding a horse through the beeping traffic of tuk-tuks and motorbikes. Stranger still in ...

NAIROBI, 20th June, 2017 (WAM) -- At least 10 people were killed on Tuesday in a car bomb attack on a government building in the Somali capital of Mogadishu that was claimed by Islamist insurgents, ...

MOGADISHU, 24th October, 2017 (WAM) -- Hassan Ali Khayre, Prime Minister of Somalia, accompanied by Mohammed Ahmed Othman Al Hammadi, UAE Ambassador to Somalia, have visited injured victims of the ...

Sehri Iftar Time for Mogadishu - Month of Ramadan 2025: Managing your fasting schedule with a detailed Sehri and Iftar times calendar for Mogadishu. This comprehensive guide provides accurate timings ...

She is speaking to me from Hargeisa, Somaliland's capital - a city 850km (530 miles) north of Mogadishu, the seat of Somalia's government. For those in Mogadishu, Somaliland is an indivisible part ...

Ethiopia and Somalia buried their year-long hatchet caused by Addis Ababa's quest for sea access from Somaliland. The African Union has called the restoration of full ties between the two ...

The names of the hijackers are pseudonyms on condition of speaking to Al Jazeera. Mogadishu, Somalia – Liban Hassan* has spent most of his adult life fishing off Somalia’s northeast coast ...

Japan welcomed the most visitors in history in 2024, as the country’s weak currency fuelled a tourism boom, according to official figures. More than 36.8 million people visited the Asian country ...

The country – one of the largest contributors to AU missions in Somalia – has played an important role in several successes, including Mogadishu’s liberation in 2011 and the capture and protection of ...