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Incumbent President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud concedes defeat after two rounds of voting and congratulates new leader. A former prime minister who holds dual Somali-US citizenship has been declared Somalia's new president. Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo was declared the new leader after two rounds of voting on Wednesday...

Somalia's MPs are due to elect the country's president at the heavily guarded airport complex in Mogadishu, as the rest of the capital is not safe. Traffic has been banned, schools have been shut and a no-fly zone imposed over Mogadishu to prevent attacks.Despite this,...

Somali authorities have begun a lockdown of Mogadishu in order to step up security across the capital ahead of a planned presidential election. Mohamed Sheikh Hassan Haamud, Somalia's police commander, said on Tuesday that security forces had blocked main roads and barred vehicles from driving...

Somali lawmakers gathered behind the blast walls of the capital's airport on Wednesday to elect their president, after months of delays and following threats from Islamist insurgents bent on derailing the process. The protracted vote began with 14,000 elders and prominent regional figures choosing 275...

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JUBA — The president of South Sudan said on Monday that soldiers who rape civilians should be shot, trying to mollify citizens outraged by abuses by security forces and quell growing international anger over attacks. South Sudan was plunged into a sporadic civil war in...

When Aden Bare Farah, 23, first boarded a bus taking him away from the bleak rows of dust-coloured tents where he was born and raised a refugee, there was no looking back. This time around, he can barely summon the enthusiasm to believe he is...

Community prepares for Somali family's arrival after executive order barred them last week. Workers with the resettlement group Della Lamb Community Services joined Country Club Christian Church volunteers Tuesday in preparing a northeast Kansas City house slated to be home for a family of nine...

Court says it will issue ruling as soon as possible but matter likely to go to Supreme Court President Donald Trump’s order temporarily banning US entry to people from seven Muslim-majority countries came under intense scrutiny on Tuesday from a federal appeals court that questioned...

Two fighters also killed after targeting hotel in rare attack in the capital of the northern semi-autonomous region. Al-Shabab fighters stormed a hotel in the capital of the semi-autonomous Puntland region killing four guards, while two of the attackers also died, a senior Somali official...