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"Fortunately, some of the court officers inside had guns and this slowed them down - stopped from killing everyone, because they were well-armed." MOGADISHU, SOMALIA-Everyone in Mogadishu knew an attack was imminent.

I say "controversially" because of the subject's sensitivity and because reducing such a complicated, subjective phenomenon to a single metric - the frequency with which people in a certain country said they would not want neighbors of a different race - is going to produce some highly disputable results.

Deputy President William Ruto said the instability in Somalia is piling pressure on Kenya's security situation.

Somali government forces march during an army day parade in Mogadishu, Somalia. The country's armed forces are not strong enough to control the threat of the Islamism extremist group Al-Shabaab and are propped up by Ethiopian troops and African Union peace-keepers. Credit: Abdurrahman Warsameh/IPS - Despite comments by Ethiopian Prime Minister ... (more)

Somalia's prime minister is expected to face a vote of confidence next week, lawmakers said on Friday, and backers of the challenge said they were frustrated with the pace of political reform.

When Washington D.C. was in financial crisis in the 1990s, Somali-born Abdusalam Omer joined a team that turned its "junk" bonds into investment grade paper.

As Somalia struggles to meet the daunting task of recovering from decades of raging civil strife and no effective government - not to mention the recurring blows of drought and famine - few challenges are greater than that of education.

Ahmed Madobe, leader of the Ras Kamboni militia, speaks during a meeting for the creation of a State of Jubaland in Kismayo, Somalia, Feb.

Hundreds of sweating Sufis chant and sway as the lead sheik moves into the middle of a circle of worshippers and bursts into a chant louder than anyone else's Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam, is having a major comeback since al-Shabab, an armed militant Islamic group, was pushed out of Somalia's capital in August 2011.

The subdivision of what was once called "the great Somalia" or SOOMAALI WEYN, which has now descended into small clan-based semiautonomous states, is mainly attributed to the loss of the memorial services that Somali people used to observe each year with the arrival of the Somali youth day.

By John Odyek The Auditor General, John Muwanga, has observed that the lives of Ugandans can be improved if the Government cuts wastage of public resources and maximises the use of the available funds.

The European Union is to move military training of Somali soldiers from Uganda to Mogadishu in a show of confidence in Somalia's growing stability after two decades of turmoil, the EU special envoy to Somalia said on Wednesday.

In a terrorism investigation spanning years and continents, Omer Abdi Mohamed was the closest the government came to finding the person who recruited young conscripts to fight in Somalia.

A soldier of the Somali National Army travels through the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia, in the back of a technical.

Although the formation of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's is an encouraging first step towards nationwide peace, it should not be assumed that Somalilanders will want to quickly unify.

A flight carrying some 25 passengers flew from Mogadishu to Kismayo on Sunday, but the flight returned to Mogadishu's airport, Garowe Online reports.

When I took Hillary Rodham Clinton to task in January for the mishandling of security in Benghazi, Libya, I told her that if I had been president at the time, I would have relieved her of her post.

Members of the African Union Mission in Somalia , destroying munitions captured from al-Shabaab militants, at a safe location outside Mogadishu.

'The tears that are now running from Somalia's golden sands into the Indian Ocean must stop' declared Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2011, following a highly charged visit to Mogadishu at the height of the 2011 Somali Famine.

Truck drivers protested for the second day in the Lower Shabelle region after alleging that Somali government forces embezzle cash by setting up illegal roadblocks in the area, Garowe Online reports.