The  clashes in Galkayo between Puntland and Galmudug forces have brought back questions about the indispensability of bringing the district under one administration. At Adaado,  Galmudug President Abdikarim Guled said his administration would like to see Galkayo under one administration to bring to...
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Mogadishu – December 15, 2018: The Special representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia (SRCC) and Head of AMISOM, Ambassador Francisco Madeira, has been following closely the events in South West State of Somalia that...
The Federal Government of Somalia launched today a series of initiatives to ensure that the Somali National Army troops are paid in a consistent and timely manner. Press Release “Our troops on the front lines work tirelessly to fight Al Shabaab...
by Bashir Goth “When you chew Khat, you are on the top of the planet, but after you spit it out, the planet is on the top of you” – A Somali saying. When Somalia recently made a surprise decision to...
The events unfolding in the last few days, including the divisions among the stakeholders, ahead of the upcoming presidential election in Somalia’s Southwest State have the potential to lead to violence. The United Nations Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) calls on...
By BBC More by this Author Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has called Somalia a country with no state and which lacks “organised authority” in a televised speech in the capital, Kampala. He said Somalia was one example but stopped at naming other...
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By Mehdi Hasan IN 2005, Steven Rosen, then a senior official with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, sat down for dinner with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, then of the New Yorker. “You see this napkin?” Rosen asked Goldberg....
A Somali pirate kingpin nicknamed "Big Mouth" has renounced a life of hijacking ships. Before his announcement on Friday, Mohamed "Afweyne" Abdi Hassan's profession earned him fame and fort une - prior to an international naval crackdown that has curbed...