Around that time, the attorney’s office said, he had been “driving in the vicinity of Galkayo, Somalia, when his vehicle was suddenly surrounded by a group of heavily armed men carrying ...

The changing role of Somali women represents a profound shift in the country’s social, economic, and political landscape.

“18 Al-Shabaab members shot dead in Galkayo city today,” reads the video title in Somali. Galkayo is the capital of Somalia’s north-central Mudug region. Screenshots comparing the second ...

Galkayo, also known as Gallacaio or Rocca Littorio, is the capital of the north-central Mudug region of Somalia. The city of Galkayo is divided into two administrative areas separated by a ...

He is the author of Sweetness and Blood, a 2010 about the history of surfing, and The Desert and the Sea, his 2018 memoir about his captivity in Somalia. He was driving in the Galkayo vicinity ...