Monday 10 January
It is difficult to imagine that the news out of Somalia could get any worse after a disastrous few years that have seen a spike in kidnappings and piracy, and the rise of al-Shabab, a hardline Islamic group that meted out…
With the sudden exit from Mogadishu of Islamist insurgents, life in the Somali capital has shifted yet again. Just as war has abated, famine has arrived. Who can fix this ravaged city?
Like latter-day Vikings, the Danish Navy tours the treacherous Gulf of Aden hunting for Somali pirates. Monocle goes aboard HDMS Absalon to join the fit-for-action forces as they deal carefully with these dangerous and…
As a former radio journalist, Ahmed Abdisalam Adan has faced death threats and seen colleagues killed. Now, he is deputy prime minister in Somalia’s first functioning government since 1991. He tells Monocle about life in…
Monday 15 November
Paul and Rachel Chandler, a British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates while sailing their yacht in the Indian Ocean, were released yesterday after just over a year in captivity.
Sunday 28 February
Besieged in a tiny corner of one of the world’s most dangerous capital cities, peppered with sniper and rocket fire, a few thousand Burundian and Ugandan troops are protecting a rickety transitional government against…
Wednesday 30 December
A year which began with a tiny sliver of hope for Somalia has ended in yet another tragedy.
In our View from Dubai column, we check the mood in the UAE. We also have reports on Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo's election.
The world’s shipping is being held to ransom by a band of Somali pirates in battered launches. As yet another new president tries to take control of the failed state, perhaps it’s time we stopped playing nice and took…
Thursday 26 January
Five years ago, stood in the concrete shell of a building in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, I made a deal.
The semiotics of President Ahmadinejad's wardrobe, plus the high seas of Indonesian piracy.
We kick off a new series on strategic flight paths, starting with Istanbul to Mogadishu.
Kenya's drink-driving crackdown, a new island in the Med and a new metro for Algiers, 40 years after its initial conception.
How Islam helped US capitalism in Somalia and why women in Saudi buy cars they can't drive.
Who's in charge of Somaliland's skies, which nation is rolling in Grasse, and who's going to get Iran's top job?
The latest developments in Syria, motorsport journalist Doug Peck discusses the sport going electric, and we learn why piracy is declining in Somalia.
We ask where the Gaddafi family went, consider whether al-Shabaab are a threat to Somalia’s new parliament, and meet the editor of a Manitoba newspaper.
How Syria’s conflict affects its neighbours, we focus on famine in Somalia, and learn how Norway is preparing for the one-year-anniversary of the Utøya shootings.
Summer is cancelled again in Beirut and pirates ahoy off Africa.
The latest from Republican primaries on Super Tuesday, Turkey’s new move into commercial flights to Somalia, and the front pages in Asia.
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