MOGADISHU  - Somalia’s newly appointed legislature will elect the country’s next president Monday, in a fresh bid to end two decades of unstable central government in the war-torn Horn of Africa nation. The election of the new president would complete a complex process set in ...

A medical worker says the heaviest fighting in months has killed at least 15 civilians in Somalia's capital. Ali Muse says women and children were among the dead and that more than 30 people were wounded. Muse heads the ambulance service in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. A spokesman for the ...