Stranger still in conservative Somalia, the rider is a woman. Shukri Osman Muse said she is “delighted to be the first female equestrian in the country – it was a dream of mine for many years”.

At 19 years old, Asha Mohamed is divorced and drives a taxi in Somalia, defying conventions to support her family in one of the world’s most conservative and dangerous countries. For the past ...

BALIDHIDIN, Somalia - The dead Islamic State fighter was sprawled out on the ridge, blood stains darkening in the sun, as a line of heavily armed Somali soldiers snaked down the mountainside to a ...