Al-Shabaab militants seize UN helicopter killing one and abducting five
Al-Shabaab fighters attack after aircraft carrying medical professionals and soldiers lands in their territory
December 2023
US and Somali forces kill al-Shabaab commander with $10m bounty on head
Maalim Ayman was wanted over attack on airbase in Kenya in 2020 in which three Americans died
October 2023
Al-Qaida and IS call on followers to strike Israeli, US and Jewish targets
Israeli military offensive in Gaza offers opportunity to extremist groups in west and Middle East, experts say
June 2023
Nine people killed in attack by al-Shabaab in Somali capital Mogadishu
Islamist militants claim responsibility for blast at popular restaurant on Friday night that injured 20 people
Uganda says 54 African Union peacekeepers killed in Somalia by al-Shabaab militants
Death toll one of heaviest since pro-government forces launched offensive against jihadists last August
The EU pays Africa’s brutal militias to lock up migrants. Britain wants to follow suit
Kenan Malik
Torture, rape and death are the results of a policy to keep desperate people away from Europe
February 2023
Tens of thousands of refugees flee from Somaliland clashes
Somalis arrive in Ethiopia from disputed town of Las Anod, where at least 82 people have died in fighting
Rights abuses often ‘tipping point’ for extremist recruitment, UN study finds
Quality education and exposure to different cultures identified as key preventive factors in African survey
Inside Villa Somalia: 72 hours with the president of ‘the most dangerous country in the world’
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says the county’s factions can find peace, political Islam need not be violent and democracy can grow. Here’s his exclusive interview with the Observer
December 2022
‘He was brainwashed’: young men are disappearing from Zanzibar. Are extremists to blame?
Crisis Somalia
Somalia is not just a story of violence and state failure. Focus on our strengths
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
Crisis Somalia
A glimpse of life beyond Mogadishu’s security zone – in pictures
Crisis Somalia
‘I’m a human being, not a monster’: the al-Shabaab defector turned government minister
November 2022
Somali forces free hotel from al-Shabaab militants, with at least nine dead
Eight civilians and one soldier died in attack on Mogadishu hotel, with six Islamist terrorists also dead
October 2022
Mogadishu car bombs leave ‘scores of civilian casualties’
UK’s lost leadership role hurts Somalia’s fight against famine, says drought envoy
September 2022
At least 19 killed in Somalia in attack by al-Shabaab insurgents
The killings come two weeks after group besieged a hotel in Mogadishu for 30 hours, leaving 21 dead
August 2022
Somali forces end hotel siege by jihadists after at least 20 believed killed
Government forces retake Hayat in Mogadishu after it was overrun by al-Shabaab fighters
Somali forces battle to end deadly hotel siege in Mogadishu – video
At least 12 people are believed to have been killed during an attack by Islamist militants on a hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu
Inside Somalia’s vicious cycle of deforestation for charcoal
As gas prices rise Somalis are turning to the affordable energy source, driving unsustainable logging – as al-Shabaab condemns but profits from the trade
