No term extension in Somalia, the U.S ambassador to Somalia Donald Yamamoto has said calling for consensus in the upcoming talks in Dhusamareb.
A tweet from the U.S embassy in Mogadishu noted an agreed electoral model should be based on...
A school in Afmadow, Jubbaland in Somalia in this picture taken on January 24, 2014. FILE PHOTO | EVANS HABIL | NMG
Somalia’s education policymakers are under pressure to explain how secondary schools in the capital Mogadishu reported massive failure...
As the Horn of Africa nation struggles to reach a consensus on this year's general election, the country's controversial clan-based indirect voting system is under scrutiny.
Plans to proceed with Somalia's 2021 general election have fallen into further disarray, as...
Somali businesses have played and continue to play a major role in the country’s recovery. The Somali private sector is one of the few beacons that still shine despite a devastating civil war which scarred an entire nation and...
The UN Security Council members on Tuesday rejected President Farmaajo’s extension of term, but endorsed efforts of the African Union to help parties resolve an electoral impasse.
Members of the UN’s most powerful body gathered for an informal sitting meant...
A Somalia National Army parade in 2012. Credit: AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
On 25 April, the Somali National Army (SNA) shocked observers both inside and out the country as it split in two. Amid protests in the capital...
By Abdi Ali
The events in Afghanistan show that no one can defy gravity, demonstrating that lofty ideals and sophisticated military intervention, however well-intentioned, cannot endure past local reality when it hits. This was shown to be particularly true if...
President Musa Bihi Abdi of the Republic of Somaliland sharply lashed out, Sunday, at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for Somalia (and also for Somaliland) for showing a false humanitarian face after an...
Once more the region is haunted by the conjectures of famine. The absence of rainfall, severe climate changes, conflicts and out-of-touch political leadership are the main driving factors.
By Khadra Yasien Ahmed
It’s a pity that people are dying of hunger...
By Ahmed Garane
The real victim
In his scapegoat mechanism theory, French historian and philosopher Rene Girard asserts that in conflict resolution tools, the contending groups collaborate and find an arbitrary party to condemn for their problems. In a reminiscent situation,...