On Sunday, Islamic militants stoned a man to death for adultery in front of hundreds of local residents in Somalia. The man, named Mohamed Abukar Ibrahim, 48, was killed by members of the rebel group Hizbul Islam in Afgoye, 20 miles from the capital...

A Nevada-based company’s purchase of minerals looted from eastern Congo is helping to finance a decade-long war that has claimed the lives of millions of civilians, an unpublished United Nations report claims. Niotan Inc., of Mound House, Nev., is...

Somalia’s hardline Muslim extremists have ordered women to shake their breasts to determine if they are wearing “un-Islamic” bras. The orders have been carried out at gunpoint by a group called Al Shabaab, who are running the streets of...

Reporting from Mogadishu, Somalia - Even in a country that has endured so much suffering, few images could more tragically convey the senseless violence gripping Somalia today than the expressionless stare of a 5-year-old boy named Omar. As he slept...

Clinton Masheti, 8 years old and all alone, sits on a wooden bench rolling snakes out of clay. When the men came and started burning down houses in his village, his parents ran away - without him. He now lives in the Nairobi Children’s Home, a...