• Al-Shabab - a jihadist breakaway from the Islamic Courts - advance into southern and central Somalia, prompting an armed intervention by Kenya.
  • Somalia is thus facing a critical humanitarian crisis and one of the most challenging mass displacement situations in the world.
  • The only solution to the clan wars in Somalia is a working legal system, but the only group who has succeeded in creating one is the Islamic Courts Union.
  • Madow Ahmed, a mother of three children talks to staff from OCHA and other aid partners in Yaqbarwe camp for the displaced in Baidoa, Somalia.
  • Somalia is a country at the Gulf of Aden in eastern Africa. ... Somalia is thus the 19th biggest country in Africa and in terms of area ranked 43rd worldwide.
  • The idea was that the Italians could educate local officials and develop the infrastructure needed for Somalia to succeed as an independent nation.
  • A bomb attack in northern Kenya kills 5 people near the border with Somalia. Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year].
  • The African Union Transitional Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) concluded the first phase of the plan to transfer security responsibilities to Somalia’s army and police...
  • 10 Facts about Somalia culture. 1. Restaurants are popular in many cities in Somalia, however, women very rarely dined out with men until the late 1990’s.
  • Somalia n (proper noun, genitive Somalias or (optionally with an article) Somalia). Somalia (a country in East Africa, in the Horn of Africa). Derived terms.