Dozens of Somali-Americans have been disappearing from the Minneapolis area, amid fears they are being recruited by Islamic e...

African and Somali girls from Djibouti dancing

The family of a British couple feared kidnapped by pirates off the east African coast have met the Somali Prime Minister as f...

Knox Chitiyo, the head of the Africa programme at the Royal United Services Institute, discusses South Africa's elections. Pl...

Barack Obama, the US president, has expressed his determination to halt the rise in piracy off the Somali coast following the...

Somalian born rapper Knaan gives the real story about Somalia's infamous pirates.

Ten Somalis detained by the U.S. Navy off the coast of Somalia and convicted of piracy by a Kenyan court were jailed for seve...

Somalia's interim government and Islamists agreed to resume peace talks on Wednesday (December 20) after troops loyal to both...

Somali pirates have hijacked their seventh ship in 12 days