Pirates leave a Ukrainian merchant vessel for Somalia’s shore in 2008. Getty Images
In 2011, pirates carried out 212 attacks in a vast area spanning Somali waters, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, actions that the World Bank...
by Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam.
While meeting a special envoy from Somaliland, Dr. Jama Musse Jama, at State House Entebbe on Friday, President Yoweri Museveni said it is wrong for Somaliland to secede from Somalia, thereby offering himself to mediate in...
DJIBOUTI — U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says Somali forces have made “impressive progress” in the fight against al-Shabab but cautioned that the terror group still can “export terror from ungoverned spaces.”
“I think they (Somali forces) made more...
Reflecting on the ongoing battle against Al-Shabaab in Somalia, there is a beacon of hope and optimism. For nearly two decades, this ruthless terrorist organisation has plagued our nation, causing untold suffering and bloodshed. However, under President Hassan Sheikh's...
By Ahmed M. Roble
For the first time in years, a massive counter-insurgency operations are launched with core commitment led by the Somali leadership, international partners, local communities with the sole aim of rooting out the militant group of Al-shabab...
Chairman of the UCID Party Eng. Feysal Ali Warabe has stated that the arrival of large delegation at Lasanod from Mogadishu is not impactful nor has any semblance whatsoever in as far as the country’s national borders are concerned.
He...
Somali police sit on a pickup truck as they enforce a curfew in Mogadishu in May 2022. Radio Baraawe has been off air for a month since gunmen shot at their offices in Barawe on August 12, 2023. (Reuters/Feisal...
Somalia and Italy on Wednesday launched a new fund to help enhance peace and stability as part of efforts to foster unity and collaboration.
Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre said the fund, Towards Peace and Stability in Somalia (TPSS),...
Gift Stars team and officials. Photo: Abdulkadir Muse Osman (Naani).
By Shafi'i Mohyaddin Abokar
Once banned by Al Shabaab terrorists, Somali women’s basketball is once again shining, and thanks to Gifted Stars women’s team for finishing 3rd place in the Arab...
The universities of Amoud, Hargeisa and Burao are affairs of Somaliland and not Somalia, says Prof. Suleiman Dirir
By M.A. Egge
The National Commission for Higher Education has declared that there is nothing in the news that the Universities of the...