MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A Somali appeals court on Sunday dropped charges against a woman who alleged she was raped by government security forces and had been convicted of defaming the government.

The agents' alleged threats and disparaging remarks against the Somali U.S. citizen come after the president spoke in openly hateful, xenophobic terms about Minnesota's Somali population last week ...

Somali women describe a complex and shifting tradition of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in Somalia, according to a study published in PLOS Global Public Health by Zamzam I.A. Ali from the ...

Somalia’s location on the Horn of Africa made it a strategic ground for empires throughout history. In the 19th century, ...

Kidnapped British woman freed from pirate captors in Somalia; to fly to Kenya British tourist Judith Tebbutt, 56, who was snatched by Somali gunmen from a resort island in Kenya and whose husband ...

A strange sight appears on the streets of Mogadishu: a figure dressed all in black, including a cowboy hat, riding a horse. Shukri Osman Muse, Somalia's first female ...

When the Thomson Reuters Foundation revealed today that Afghanistan had topped its list of the world's most dangerous countries for women, Somalia's women's minister, Maryan Qasim, had one reaction: ...

LONDON, June 15 (TrustLaw) - A Thomson Reuters Foundation poll may have found that Afghanistan is the most dangerous place to be a woman, but Somalia's women's minister is astonished any country could ...

NAIROBI/GAROWE, Oct 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women's rights groups, prominent businesswomen and female politicians in Somalia are urging the country's male-dominated parliament to pass a bill ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A British tourist freed Wednesday by Somali pirates after six months in captivity said she did not know for weeks that her husband was killed in the raid on a luxury beach resort ...