For years women in Mogadishu have been on the side-lines in the fight against al-Shabaab, but more recently they have

Somali Ministry of Women and Human Rights in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund and United Nations

In its annual report, the Human Rights Watch organization released on Tuesday blasts that Women and girls in Somalia

As Mogadishu's Liido beach became a popular spot, where young men and women are predominant during the holidays, wome

The speech of 16-year-old Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai at the United Nations this month has served as an inspi

Asha Haji Elmi was born in Somalia in 1962 where she graduated from the Somali National University in Mogadishu.

A Somali freelance journalist has been detained without charge since 10 January after interviewing a woman who says s

As the UK hosts a major conference aimed at ending two decades of conflict in Somalia, Faduma Aden Mohamud, 37, expla

As Somalia's transitional government and various stakeholders meet Wednesday to discuss the inclusion of the country'

The 40 women conference participants dubbed G40 will in the five days of their discussions come up with an action pla

The number of reported rapes in camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, has ri

On July 22, 2011 the newly appointed Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, a Harvard-trained professor of econo

A Thomson Reuters Foundation poll may have found that Afghanistan is the most dangerous place to be a woman, but Soma