In Kenya, U.S. forces are primarily responsible for training Kenyan forces, sharing intelligence, and personnel recovery DAVOS, Switzerland, January 24, 2020/ -- U.S. Africa Command continues to investigate the Jan. 5 attack on the Kenyan Defense Force Military Base in...
Mogadishu-native Khadija Farah has been shortlisted to win a coveted humanitarian honor at the Bond International Development Awards 2020 in London, UK. Khadija Farah has served her country and the humanitarian community for 27 years as an aid-worker on issues spanning...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The U.S. military said Tuesday it has killed a high-ranking leader of the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group with an airstrike in Somalia. A statement by the U.S. Africa Command said Yusuf Jiis was one of three...
The shift is a major change from a dozen years ago when such connectivity was impossible and conflict between militias made attending class a potentially lethal experience MOGADISHU, Somalia, April 28, 2020/ -- Nowadays, the much-admired gardens and once-full classrooms...
DHOBLEY, Somalia 16th April 2020: - An African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) unit in Bilis Qooqani town on Friday stopped a late-night attack on Jubaland Security Forces (JSF), killing and arresting several terrorists in the process. AMISOM forces recovered...
By M.A. Egge The President of the Republic of Somaliland H.E. Muse Bihi Abdi is expected to jet out to the Djibouti capital, for what the host, Djibouti, has described as a consultative meeting, also hosting an entourage from Mogadishu. In...
By Dahir Mohamed Mahmoud The Somali legislature's history goes back to the colonial and post-independence parliaments which were unicameral based on a multiparty system. Then a military coup suspended the only ratified constitution 1961, to establish a socialist one-party system...
By Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf The Charter of the United Nations is not only the constituent instrument of the United Nations as an organization. It is a multilateral legal manifesto encompassing a set of basic principles and norms aimed at ensuring...
The money transfer service will empower Somalis at home and abroad. 3 September 2020: London:  Juba Express, one of the fastest growing money transfer services and  WorldRemit, a leading global payments company are connecting to provide Somalis with the opportunity to receive...
General Mohamed Nur Galaal and a former minister of state are among those who have been killed in the ongoing siege at Hotel Afrik in Mogadishu amid fears of rising casualties as security forces engage the militants holed up...