Supporters of different Somali opposition presidential candidates protest over delayed elections in Mogadishu on February 19, 2021. Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images
By David Pratt
For decades it has reeled under famine, civil war and an Islamist inspired insurgency, but...
At least three civilians were killed and five wounded when a barrage of mortars targeted the UN and African Union peacekeeping mission forces (AMISOM) headquarters in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday, a police official said.
Abdi Yusuf, a police...
A street scene in Mogadishu, Somalia as pictured April 26, 2021. A journalist in the city was detained and a news outlet there was raided. (Reuters/Feisal Omar)
April 29, 2021 — The Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed alarm at recent...
by Isaac Muhammad
Sunday, July 4, 2021
John Maxwell was right: "Everything rises and falls on leadership." And at the peak of Somalia's colossal predicaments, it is a numbing example of an appalling failure of leadership. Indeed, for more than half...
By Liban Obsiye
“Between the devil and the deep blue sea” by Colin Freeman is a book about luck, tragedy, and the enduring spirit of mankind to dig deep into their moral fibre for the good of others in times...
Currently, there are nearly 6,000 Somali migrants in Libya
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 26, 2021/ -- The International Organization for Migration (IOM), through its Voluntary Humanitarian Return (VHR) programme, facilitated the safe return of 32 Somali migrants in November 2021.
“Currently, there...
By Hon. Abdulkadir Osoble Ali
There is a huge Bomb in Somalia and its shockwave will wash across the Horn and into the global world.
More than 70 percent of Somalia’s population is now under 30, with about 70 percent of those people unemployed....
Somali lawmakers wait for their turn to cast their ballots during the presidential vote at the airport on Wednesday in Mogadishu. (Feisal Omar/Reuters)
MOGADISHU: Somalia will hold presidential elections on May 15, state TV announced Thursday, broadcasting a statement by...
By Hussein Adan Igeh (Deyr),
Somalia, (often taken as the prime example of a failed state) has for more than three decades embodied as the deficiencies of statelessness. The successive presidents of Somalia had time and again failed to create...
Swedish parties are said to be demanding the recognition of Somaliland through the parliament with two major parties in the country spearheading the effort.
Markus Wiechel, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Swedish Parliament recalled that nine...