Somalia's Prime Minister says he fears hundreds have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a hotel north of Mogadishu.

The British navy has shown that their hard approach to the Somali pirates is indeed working. In the Gulf of Aden a patrol int...

African and Somali girls from Djibouti dancing

There will be more security at the Somali American Independence Days soccer tournament tonight, Reg Chapman reports (1:24).

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...