With its security-sealed plastic boxes and cardboard polling booths, Somalia's election - under way since last month and still ongoing - has the trappings of democracy, but few of the functions. .........

Somalia is in the midst of a process to choose its new leaders even though the country remains too dangerous to hold a national poll.

At least five people killed and 13 wounded in twin bomb blasts in Somalia's Mogadishu, media reported, citing government's and police sources. ......

Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Transparency International (TI) on Tuesday called on the Somali government, donor agencies and humanitarian agencies to take critical steps to address corruption in the delivery...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN envoy in Somalia, Michael Keating, has stressed the need to ensure that the legitimacy of the electoral process in the country is preserved and called on the electoral bod...

Somalia's ongoing parliamentary elections have no credibility becauses of vote buying, fraud, intimidation and violence, the country's auditor general said in an exclusive interview with VOA Somali. Nu...

The story of Somalia's decline from stability to chaos and the problems facing its people at home and abroad.

New York, US (PANA) - Some 18 people have been killed and 60 injured in the ongoing fighting in Gaalkacyo, Somalia, in the last two weeks, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OC...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Amnesty International says just two weeks before the deadline given to close the Dadaab refugee camp, Kenyan government officials are deliberately coercing refugees to return to...

As Somalia prepares for polls later this year al-Shabab quietly takes over towns left by withdrawing Ethiopian troops.