Somalia's MPs elect Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as the new president in a vote in Mogadishu, in the latest step to end decades of war.

The UK has established a small military presence in Somalia to advise the African Union force in Mogadishu, the British Ministry of Defence confirms.

Why a UK-based estate agent has gone home to Somalia

A Kenyan driver has been killed and four foreign aid workers kidnapped at a refugee camp in Kenya close to the border with Somalia, police say.

Somalia's interim government denies allegations of massive corruption contained in a leaked UN report.

African Union and government forces in Somalia capture the southern town of Afmadow, an important strategic base for al-Shabab militants.

African Union (AU) forces in Somalia say they have captured a strategic town near the capital, Mogadishu, after Islamist militants pulled out.

E' il 6/o nel 2012 in Somalia

A suicide bomber in Somalia attacks a government base in Afgoye, which was captured by pro-government forces last month, causing some casualties.

NAIROBI ? A grenade attack on a Nairobi church Sunday killed at least one person and injured more than a dozen, the latest in a series of such attacks since Kenya sent troops to fight an al-Qaeda-link...