Mogadishu’s first line of defense against the next militant attack on Somalia’s capital ranges from machine gunners in pick-up trucks to young men in plainclothes manning checkpoints ...

As Trump focuses the military on the Western Hemisphere, AFRICOM and other foreign commands could be consolidated.

The United States struck terrorist targets in Somalia on Monday as part of a ramped-up effort to suppress al-Shabaab and ...

Somalia made global headlines in recent times after its parliament briefly outlawed child marriage, only to reverse the ...

In his latest book, Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State, anthropologist Mahmood ...

Africa’s political and economic outlook in 2026 is defined less by crisis than by contradiction. Fewer elections are ...

JERUSALEM — Israel’s recognition of Somaliland has thrust the breakaway territory into the international spotlight, causing ...

Last summer, after more than two years of terrible fighting, it looked like the United States might finally have landed on a viable approach for ending the civil war in Sudan. Since the conflict began ...

Some countries are deemed by the US Department of State to be no-go zones, with travelers told that they’re likely to be ...

Vice President JD Vance said the Trump administration is creating an assistant attorney general position to investigate ...

U.S. Africa Command General Michael E. Langley warns of jihadi threat to homeland as airstrikes against al-Shabab and ...

The latest flare-up in fighting this week in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has sparked a fresh exodus of an estimated 7,000 people rushing to escape violence that has killed a substantial number of ...