Somalia’s clans have always been strong and are the only source of security and social welfare for most people. Almost all the militias currently fighting al-Shabab have kinship ties to the ...

A violent clash over the weekend between two clans in central Somalia has killed at least 55 people and injured another 155, residents and medical officials said on Monday. Somalia's federal ...

At least 15 people have been killed, as rival Somali clans battle for grazing land and water points for their animals, aid workers say. The Saad and Suleman sub-clans have been fighting for months in ...

A Somali government-led alliance with clans may be a winning strategy against the al Qaeda-linked terrorist group al-Shabab. The Somali clan strategy — a homegrown indigenous-led campaign — is ...

Uprising by Somali clans puts al-Qaeda-linked militants on the defensive. After Somalia’s government put its backing behind some clan militias, they began to retake territory from al-Shabab.

A violent clash over the weekend between two clans in central Somalia has killed at least 55 people and injured another 155, residents and medical officials said on Monday. Somalia's federal ...

A violent clash over the weekend between two clans in central Somalia has killed at least 55 people and injured another 155, residents and medical officials said on Monday.