Voting is underway in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland in a key presidential election that was delayed for two years ...

Voting is underway in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland in a key presidential election that was delayed for two years ...

It takes place against the backdrop of flaring tensions with Somalia’s federal government over a deal that will allow ...

A Somali pirate and former Minnesota resident received a 30-year prison sentence related to the kidnapping of a U.S.

Both Abdi Yusef Hassan of Minneapolis and Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed of Somalia were sentenced to 30 years in prison for their ...

Somalia’s Information minister Abdirahman Yusuf has, however, denied the claims that the government is involved in the recent ...

Two Somali pirates were sentenced to three decades in prison over the kidnapping of an American journalist held in captivity ...

Voters in Somaliland went to the polls on Wednesday amid the growing possibility of the region being recognized as an ...

Somalia and Ethiopia remain deadlocked over a Memorandum of Understanding that Ethiopia signed with the breakaway region, ...

This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “The world’s next country?” ...

Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, holds a presidential election on Wednesday at a time of diplomatic tensions in the ...

The region is a breakaway faction of Somalia that often finds itself sandwiched between Ethiopia and Somalia’s conflicts.