1. Mogadishu residents living in constant danger
(Opinions/Society)

... to bring peace and security to the Horn of Africa country, which had no effective government for 16 years. Led by Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, the government failed to assert its authority over the country...

2. Timeline: Somalia
(Archived/News/SReports)

A chronology of important events and developments

3. Somali parliament endorses new PM
(Archived/News/Arab)

Somalia's parliament-in-exile has endorsed the choice of Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke, a Canadian and Somali national, as the war-torn country's new prime minister, Aden Mohamed Nur, Somalia's assembly s

4. Somalis urged to fight AU troops
(Archived/News/Arab)

Al-Shabab, the armed anti-government Somali group, has called on Somalis to intensify their war against African Union (AU) troops for driving the peacekeepers out of the country.

5. Somali leader praises US position
(Archived/News/Arab)

Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Somalia's new president, has said that he sees a positive role for the US in helping his country attain peace.

6. New Somali president sworn in
(Archived/News/Arab)

Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has been sworn in as the new president of Somalia just months after his Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) signed a peace deal with the transitional government.

7. Somali MPs to elect new president
(Archived/News/Arab)

Somalia's largely powerless transitional government is set to elect a new president as it struggles to restore stability in the Horn of Africa nation.

8. Fighters overrun Somali town
(Archived/News/Arab)

Fighters from the al-Shabab group have captured the Somali town of Baidoa and seized the parliament building just hours after Ethiopian troops pulled out of the country, witnesses said.

9. Ethiopia completes Somali pullout
(Archived/News/Arab)

Ethiopia says it has completed the withdrawal of its troops from Somalia after a two year intervention to combat opposition fighters.

10. Somali president steps down
(Archived/News/Arab)

Somalia's president has resigned after months of political infighting within the UN-backed transitional government.