South African authorities try to force as many as 4,000 illegal miners - known as zama zamas - to return to the surface, by denying them food and water. The miners, who have been stuck underground, ...

While the illegal seizure of oil after hijacks may seem like the criminal exploits of a bygone age, the threat remains a ...

Two Somali pirates were sentenced to three decades in prison over the kidnapping of an American journalist held in captivity ...

Both Abdi Yusef Hassan of Minneapolis and Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed of Somalia were sentenced to 30 years in prison for their ...

Island nations, for example, argue climate change threatens their very existence as seas rise, while rainforest nations say they need more money to protect their vast carbon sinks ...

Shabaab ‘in any way possible’ despite Somalia's push to exclude it from upcoming AU mission Addis Standard News - ...

Not long before President Donald Trump, in his first term, issued his so-called “travel ban” on 13 countries, Somalia-born ...

Voting was underway Wednesday in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland in a key presidential election that was delayed for ...

A Somali pirate and former Minnesota resident received a 30-year prison sentence related to the kidnapping of a U.S.

In 2012, Moore, a freelance journalist, traveled to Somalia to research piracy and the Somali economy. On Jan. 21 of that year, Moore was driving in Galkayo, Somalia when his vehicle was surrounded by ...