In exchange, Somaliland would get an unspecified stake in Ethiopian Airlines, the continent’s largest carrier, while Africa’s ...

Voting is underway in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland in a key presidential election that was delayed for two years ...

This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “The world’s next country?” ...

An African country blighted by warlords and piracy has had $1.1bn (£860m) of debt forgiven by the USA. Somalia has announced ...

The country code for Somalia is +252. This country code, along with the area code, is required to call a telephone number in Somalia from another country. Also an international dialing prefix, ...

Somalia is located in the northeastern section of Africa known as the Horn of Africa. It occupies a land area of approximately 637,600 square kilometers (185,655 square nautical miles), which is ...

Somalia may be one of the poorest countries in the world and beset by violence, but it is “fixable”, according to its top climate official. The country has been torn apart by more than 30 ...

The process has exposed deep and familiar fault lines and mistrust between Somalia's political actors, who remain at odds ...

“Damuljadiid, the faction to which President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud belongs, has caused incalculable damage to the sovereignty ...

Ranked third only to Syria and Afghanistan, Somalia tops a list of the 10 most dangerous conflict-affected countries to be a child. 1. In 2011, famine in Somalia killed 260,000 people, half of whom ...

The US has forgiven $1.14 billion of debt owed by Somalia following a bilateral agreement between the two countries, ...

The agreement lays out a path to the country’s first nationwide one-person, one-vote elections, despite strong opposition ...