Thirteen-year-old Ugbad Khalif was visiting her grandmother in Somalia last month when violence erupted on the streets of the town where she was staying. For almost two weeks, her mother on ...

it divided Somali society even more. This is because the government armed and provided financial support specifically to militias from President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s clan and others close to him.

Omar Mahmood, a senior analyst for Somalia and the Horn of Africa at the ... on the battlefield and the country is badly politically divided — but the concerns about Mogadishu being captured ...