In 1979, newly recruited policewoman, Asha Hassan Hussein, was the first female to ride a police motorcycle to patrol the streets of Mogadishu.
At the age of 15 Halima Ismail Ibrahim was already advocating for women's rights at her high school in Afgoye, 30 km from Mogadishu. With or without a functioning state, as a passionate and committed human rights activist and recently appointed the Co-Chair of the Technical Selection Committee (TSC), Halima has been working for the poor, human rights and with youth for decades.
Ever since 'Black Hawk Down', Somalia is not known as a country bearing good news. For over 20 years, the country has lacked a stable central government and been wracked by civil war.
Somalia, known as the world's most famous failed state is currently in the midst of pivotal change; with impending elections and increased interest by the West, Somalia's is not only on the agenda of world leaders, but its future also seems more brighter than it has in a long time. O
A few months ago ‘Ardo’ had to tell a 12-year-old orphan she’d been “cut”. “This girl knew a little bit about female genital mutilati...
Piracy is not a new topic for video games - but usually it's the peg legs and bottles o'rum pirates you see depicted in pixels, and not the modern equ...
Thousands of Somalis have been forced to flee an ongoing military offensive in Afgooye Corridor, Southern Somalia. More than 5,000 people have arrived, many on foot and carrying nothing, into overcrowded Mogadishu. I'm standing in Sigale camp, Mogadishu, and the trickle of people struggling in becomes a torrent. Mothers carrying children and their meagre belongings look shattered and collapse under nearby trees.
No matter where she is from, a mother's happiness will depend on her child's wellbeing. This similarity cuts through all other differences that may exist between mothers living on opposite sides of the world.
Is Khat really bad news or just another political football being kicked around our embattled minority communities? Khat is a green leafy shrub grown...
A legal - and potentially lethal - Somalian drug and cafe culture taking root in British cities may may be the next battleground in Britain's fight ag...
Members of Somalia's Olympic committee and football chiefs are amongst 10 people killed after a suicide blast in Mogadishu. Al-Shabab militants hav...
British youths in the UK could be radicalised as Africa becomes a potential new front for counter-terrorism, a new report has warned. The radicalis...
The palestinian cause has become internalised within Human rights discourse, and Muslim movements, the Kurdish cause in contrast has been marginalised, and sidelined. Kurdish population is close to 40million while palestinian population exceeds four million, but enjoy the sympathy and support of the Arab world.
A British woman snatched by pirates from an east African island flew back to Britain tonight after being released from captivity. Judith Tebbutt ha...
A British woman kidnapped from a resort island on the Kenyan coast did not know that her husband had been killed for another two weeks. News of Jud...
Judith Tebbutt was kidnapped from a resort island on the Kenyan coast on September 11 2011 by Somali pirates, who killed her husband David during the ...
British woman Judith Tebbutt, who taken hostage in Kenya and held in Somalia six months ago, has said she is "really happy" to have finally been relea...
At a time when the need for innovative, thoughtful and commercially viable movies are paramount in the UK, it's always good to see an institution like First Light put their money where their mouth is. A foundation set up to develop skills in under-25s through film and media production, their annual awards ceremony (the 11th) is just around the corner.
One of the main focuses of yesterday's UK Foreign Office conference on Somalia was, perhaps unsurprisingly, the terrorist threat posed by al-Qaeda's newest franchise, al-Shabaab. The very fact that the British government sought to host such a high-profile conference in London demonstrates how serious this threat is being taken.
The prime minister of Somalia has said he would welcome "targeted" air strikes against terrorist bases in his country. But Abdiweli Mohamed Ali sai...
David Cameron will appeal to international leaders to step up support for Somalia in an effort to stabilise the country described as "the world's most...
David Cameron has warned of the "real threat" posed by islamic extremists and pirates in Somalia on the eve of a crucial conference in the UK, amid re...
Britain is to fund a new anti-piracy intelligence centre in the Seychelles to co-ordinate action against Somali pirates, Foreign Secretary William Hag...
David Cameron has called on the "whole of the world" to tackle the "incredibly difficult" problem of Somalia but admitted that people needed to be "re...
Djibouti is home to a large French military base. It is also home to an expanding multi-agency US base, 'Camp Lemonnier', about to undergo its next phase of development in the wake of events in Iran, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
