Hodan Mohamud Diiriye faced a firing squad after being found guilty of beating Saabirin Saylaan to death.

GALKAYO, Somalia, October 15 (UNHCR) - A dozen female students wearing brightly coloured head scarves listen attentively to their teacher in a whitewashed classroom daubed with slogans such as: "Learn ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Shortly after sunrise, a group of young women arrives at a football pitch in Mogadishu, where they shrug off their hijabs — some changing underneath the billowing veil — to reveal ...

GALKAYO, Somalia (UNHCR) - Hawa Aden has been called a witch. She and her women colleagues have been labelled traitors to Somali culture and the Islamic religion, and had Friday sermons preached ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Dozens of women from the Southwest state of Somalia completed online training on human rights and gender protection, a program that would help Somali women and girls to equip them ...

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has today launched a new report titled "Targeted Online, Unsafe Offline: Gender-Based Violence and Impunity Against Women Journalists in Somalia", ...

Somalia ranks amongst the ten poorest countries in the world. With a population of around 12.3 million it is estimated that 43 per cent of the population live in extreme poverty (less than 1 US dollar ...

Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, to the Security Council meeting on Somalia today: Let me begin by congratulating Ireland on your ...

GAROWE, Somalia, Jan 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly a third of Somalia's parliamentary seats will be reserved for female lawmakers in an election next month, the prime minister said, a ...

LONDON, June 15 (TrustLaw) - A Thomson Reuters Foundation poll may have found that Afghanistan is the most dangerous place to be a woman, but Somalia's women's minister is astonished any country could ...

This interview was supported through the African Union Media Fellowship and the International Consulting Expertise, in partnership with the European Union. The AUMF thus underlines the necessity of ...