Joint forces comprising the Somali National Army (SNA) and African Union troops, particularly from the Ugandan contingent, ...

The Somali federal government is accelerating efforts to establish a new regional administration in the Gedo region, in open defiance of the Jubbaland leadership based in Kismayo, which Mogadishu does ...

Ethiopia's Somali region official says "hundreds" dead U.N. reports fighting in area with unknown number injured Government struggling to contain regional flare ups More Ethiopians flee to Sudan ...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -The local government in Ethiopia’s Somali region said on Tuesday militia from the neighbouring region of Afar had attacked and looted a town, the latest flare-up in a ...

Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Somaliland suspended its participation in Turkey-backed talks aimed at reconciling differences between their governments, a setback to efforts to stabilize ...

This article was first published in Ethiopia Insight. A much less brutal party-state is set to consolidate its power in a slightly more democratic environment. It has been almost three years since f ...

When I asked the ONLF leader about ‘region 5’, he became irritated and said: “My home is not a number!” I thought he was just being nationalistic as ONLF members often refer to the Somali inhabited ...

A presidential poll in the separatist Somali region of Somaliland has been postponed for "technical and financial reasons," the electoral commission said Saturday. Muse Bihi Abdi was elected ...

The arid Somali (or Ogaden) region of Ethiopia, home to some 5 million ethnic Somalis has been isolated from the world since 2005, when the government imposed a ban on all international media and ...

Lawmakers will elect a new president Tuesday in the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland, which is battling factions of al-Qaeda and Islamic State. More than 20 candidates are taking part in ...