The expression Black Hawk Down, the title of a Hollywood film, has become shorthand for a 1993 US military disaster in ...

“Get these coordinates,” he ordered his military grid reference system specialist Capt David Onyango, at the headquarters of Uganda contingent of the African Union Transition Mission in ...

Somalia never had a grand reconciliation process —no truth commissions, no national mourning, no moment of reckoning. The war ...

And it is easy to get hold of a gun in Somalia - even in Eyl you can pick up an AK-47 for about $1,200, a legacy of its two-decade civil war and years of lawlessness. Farah and Diiriye say they ...