All of a sudden, Somalia faces an existential crisis: Al-Shabaab are within six kilometres of Mogadishu and are encircling the city. From the north, there is fighting at the Ministry of Defence and to ...

with a guide in hand to connect the pieces of the three capitals Egypt had under Muslim rule before the founding of Al-Qahira: Al-Foustat, Al-Asskar, and Al-Qata’a. In her volume, Abdallah ...

The mayor said seven people had been killed in the attack but witnesses said the death toll could be higher. The raid at the Qahira Hotel took place as politicians, security officials and traditional ...

Somali security forces have ended a deadly 24-hour siege by Islamist fighters who stormed a popular hotel in the central city of Beledweyne, authorities said. The attack by al-Shabab began with a ...

"The attackers have been neutralised. Some detonated themselves while others were killed by police forces," Omar Osman Calasow, the mayor of Beledweyne district, told the BBC. The mayor said seven ...

The raid at the Qahira Hotel took place as politicians, security officials and traditional elders were meeting to discuss plans for an offensive against al-Shabab in central Somalia. Police ...

Story continues below this ad Parts of the Qahira Hotel were reduced to rubble as government troops and gunmen exchanged fire, Suleiman added. Halima Nur, a witness who lives near the hotel, said ...

“We first heard a huge blast followed by gunfire, then another blast was heard,” said Ali Suleiman, a shopkeeper who witnessed the attack. Parts of the Qahira Hotel were reduced to rubble as ...

In an interview with VOA Somali, federal lawmaker Dahir Amin Jesow said local elders and government officials were meeting at the Qahira Hotel in central Somalia. “They attacked the hotel at ...