Somali government officials and exiled Islamist opposition leaders are to hold face-to-face peace talks in Djibouti, the United Nations special envoy to the country said Friday.

What is the Transitional Federal Government? The product of two years of international mediation led by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development , the TFG is the fourteenth attempt to create a functioning government in Somalia since the end of Muhammad Siad Barre’s dictatorial rule in 1991. Formed in late 2004, the TFG governed from neighboring Kenya until June 2005. Parliament did not ...

Security forces in the semiautonomous Somali territory of Puntland arrested the director-general of Somali Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), an independent broadcaster based in the northern port city of Bossaso.

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) strongly condemns today's arrest of Director of Somali Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) Mowlid Haji Abdi by the police of Puntland Regional State in northeastern Somalia.

Source: Reuters (Updates throughout with more fighting) By Abdi Sheikh and Abdi Mohamed MOGADISHU, May 9 (Reuters) – Fighting in Mogadishu killed six more people on Friday, including four orphans, a day after ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somali police are fortifying their headquarters in Mongadishu after Islamic insurgents attacked the facility in the heart of capital on Thursday.

Fri, May 9, 2008 (5:54 a.m.) Police fortified their headquarters Friday in fear of another attack after Islamist fighters raided the station in the heart of the government's Mogadishu stronghold.

A gunbattle Friday between insurgents and Somali soldiers in Mogadishu left at least six people dead and 13 wounded, witnesses said.