Continued use of blind representations of old colonial boundaries causes us to misread the reality on the ground in many African states and overestimate their empirical effectiveness. The official map ...

As unfortunate as it is for the locals or Americans who travel to such risky areas, Al-Shabaab is a regional African problem, ...

The Horn of Africa forum in Djibouti addresses Ethiopia-Somalia tensions over a memorandum of understanding signed by Ethiopia and Somaliland.

Somalia is having its worst drought in history. Here are seven reasons why so few Americans are paying attention.

How climate change, conflict and Ukraine are among drivers of the gravest food crisis in Africa's history ...

America never seems to get Somalia right. For decades, U.S. relations with the impoverished, strategically located country on the Horn of Africa have followed a pattern: cycles of robust ...

About 43,000 people died last year from the drought in Somalia, according to international agencies and the government, which on Monday released the first official death toll about the record ...

Somalia's drought is being described as "extremely critical," but there is no famine projected. 3.8 million people have been displaced due to Somalia's battles with al-Shabab.

The worst flooding to hit Somalia in decades has killed 29 people and forced more than 300,000 to flee their homes, the National Disaster Management Agency said on Wednesday, following heavy rains ...

Opinion - For decades, the international community has held fast to the aspiration of a unified Somalia. Yet that vision--however noble--no longer corresponds with realities on the ground. Somalia ...

The United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) has confirmed that it carried out a targeted airstrike on May 11, Sunday, in Togga Miraale within the Cal Miskaad mountain range in Somalia's Bari region ...

Mothers with their children have been photographed from the epicentre of the crippling drought in Southern Somalia, with one explaining how her young family has been forced to survive on tea with ...