Imagine a place where your family name is more important than your ideas. This is Somalia, where clan loyalty is more powerful than any law. The current voting system is like a dance everyone knows.

Somali political history is often told as a story of clans and chaos. Look closer, and three individuals stand out for the scale of their impact on national leadership, cultural identity and lasting ...

America has always been shaped by immigration. Scandinavians settled the Upper Midwest, Italians and Irish built cities along the East Coast, and Asian Americans transformed the West. Each group ...

Islam in Somali history : fact and fiction / Mohamed Haji Mukhtar -- Aspects of the Benadir cultural history : the case of the Bravan Ulama / Mohamed M. Kassim -- The invention of Gosha : slavery, ...

Somalia’s coastline has hosted more foreign flags in the past two decades than at any point since the colonial partition of the Horn of Africa. American drones over Bari, Emirati-funded ...

For every individual, there is a journey completed by those who came before that eventually comes to define the current days and shapes stories. These are roots, origin stories and for many, it ...

Somalia’s independence in 1960 united two former colonial territories, British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland. Each carried distinct administrative legacies, creating early challenges for unity. In ...

NAIROBI, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Five hundred years ago, an Imam who ruled much of what is now Somalia, led a daring invasion of Christian Ethiopia, looting monasteries, burning down churches and slaying ...