Mogadishu, locally called Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and largest city of Somalia, situated just north of the Equator on the Indian Ocean. The city has ancient roots dating back to the 10th century when it became one of the first Arab settlements on the East African coast. Over the ce...
Residents in the Karan and Gubadlay districts of Mogadishu said they planned protests against the president on Monday evening when they break their daily fast for Ramadan. At the weekend, some protesters burned photos of the president, while two prominent opposition figures alleged that pr...
Somalia’s problems with its more powerful neighbors are not new. Both Nairobi and Addis have always looked at Somalia as a threat to their territorial integrity on account of their substantial ethnic Somali populations and on-and-off nationalist claims over all of “Greater Somalia” (see map)...
U.S. forces, intervening in war-torn Somalia for humanitarian reasons, ran into trouble on a mission to seize a Somali militia leader in Mogadishu in October 1993. The resulting Battle of Mogadishu resulted in hundreds of total casualties and the end of