TAIF – Some Hawiye residents have filed a suit against Taif municipality claiming that it has failed to limit or remove an industrial zone they claim is invading their neighborhood. Residents said ...

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA — The collapse last week of the Islamic Courts Union in Mogadishu is reviving old clan rivalries that experts say will play a key role in Somalia’s future. The following is a primer ...

Mogadishu — The traditional elders of Somali's powerful Hawiye tribe, who had several hours long meeting in the Somalia capital Mogadishu after the ceasefire was broken, on Sunday issued a joint ...

Mogadishu — After discharging efforts made the by Somalia's new Premier Nor Adde several members of hawiye clan elders were released from the TFG confinements on Sunday hawiye elder said The elders ...

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA — A government-mandated disarmament program got underway here Tuesday without much of a bang. At one designated weapons drop-off point in the Somalian capital, bored-looking ...

Four months after Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi declared his own "war on terror" against an Islamic movement in Somalia, Ethiopia remains entangled in a situation that analysts and critics are ...

The largest clan in the Benadir region where the capital of Somalia, Mogadishu, is located, completely pulled out their support of Farmajo, declaring him a persona non grata. The clan, Hawiye, also ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A group of elders, former presidents, lawmakers, and candidates in Somalia dismissed the recent decision by the Lower House to add outgoing President Farmajo two more years in ...

The Somali capital, Mogadishu, has in late March and early April 2007 been witnessing the heaviest fighting and most woeful destruction since the start of the civil war in the early 1990s. A local ...