A quarter century of fear and fantasy.

Why security in the Somali capital is improving

This week, Spotlight on Africa takes you to the Africa Forward summit hosted by France and Kenya in Nairobi on 11 and 12 May. It marks the first time France has staged such an event in an English-spea...

Somaliland officials have pursued formal diplomatic recognition for over 30 years.

The Sahel has become the world’s most deadly region for terrorism, with nearly half of all global deaths now taking place there. This marks a long-term shift away from the Middle East and North Africa...

Totally trivial with the current state of the world, but as a once-Bristol-historian, I just have to mention this: Journalists at Reuters ...

In January 2024, Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud made a promise. The work his government was doing to finalize Somalia’s provisional constitution, Mohamud said at the inauguration ceremony o...

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to...

In this interview, I spoke with art historian Claire Dillon about her archival research into Mogadishu Cathedral and Italian colonial ambition in Somalia.

Three Soviet-backed states formed an alliance to dominate the Horn of Africa and Red Sea. It lasted barely half a decade.

Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

In this interview, I spoke with art historian Claire Dillon about her archival research into Mogadishu Cathedral and Italian colonial ambition in Somalia.

Displaced families who fled el-Fasher face dire conditions with no blankets, food shortages, and few medical supplies.

In a perverse twist on virtue signaling, the Trump administration is training Americans in the politics of raw domination.

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Somalia's state minister for foreign affairs tells Al Jazeera that Israeli move aims to displace Palestinians from Gaza.

In September, a U.S. drone strike in Somalia killed Omar Abdillahi, a well-known clan leader local officials and residents say had supported the local government

Tump's strike total on conflict-ridden East African nation exceeds Bush, Obama and Biden administrations combined.

Somalis have answered Trump’s latest racist tirade not with outrage but with a tidal wave of trolling.

US president orders 5,000 Ethiopians to leave in 60 days amid broader push to end protections for over one million.

Eritrea has formally informed the IGAD Secretary General of its decision to withdraw from the Organization.Eritrea’s decision stems from, and is predicated, on the following poignant facts and…

Advocates warn that Trump's anti-Somali rhetoric has fuelled fear in US communities and anger abroad.

University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.

AL24 News - Algiers International Conference: Participants call for official acknowledgment of colonial crimes in Africa - Algeria

From Tripoli to Mogadishu, a generation of officers vowed to finish what independence started. Fifty years later, their coupvolutions still haunt the region.

Across the continent’s new coup belt, young officers are stepping into power, casting themselves as guardians against corrupt civilian elites.

I talk with Faisal Ali and Nathaniel Powell about a pivotal period in African history.

Officials launch probe days after breach emerged amid widespread concern and speculation over leaked data.

Conflict in Tigray could balloon into a regional conflagration

A rail worker who saved multiple lives during last week’s mass stabbing attack on a UK train has been named as Algerian Samir Zitouni.

Testimonies describe bodies in streets, families torn apart and days without food as paramilitary seizes Sudan city.

Soumaya Hamdi describes shock detention at San Francisco airport as lawyers file emergency legal challenge.

On the night of 31 October 1954, a series of attacks across colonial Algeria marked the start of the Algerian War – a bloody conflict that would last eight years. Claimed by the newly formed National…

Mohammed Zakaria lost sleep tracking el-Fasher’s fall, then saw on social media that his family had been killed.

Ten coups in five years have returned Africa’s soldiers to power. Cast as saviors against corrupt civilians, they now rule across the continent but history shows their promises rarely deliver.

The leader of Madagascar's military coup says he is “taking the position of president” and that the armed forces will remain in charge of the sprawling African island nation for up to two years before...

Many African nations now spend more servicing external debt than funding healthcare and education.

Between 1989 and 1991, every government from Chad to Somalia collapsed. The region still grapples with the legacy of this tumultous period.