Around the world, women lack adequate access to quality health care, which make pregnancy and childbirth difficult and, in some situations, fatal. Midwives provide crucial maternal care in many parts of the world and can help mothers and children...
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud served as President of Somalia from 2012 to 2017 and a candidate for the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia
By Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
For far too long, Somalia was at a crossroads in which it was...
MOGADISHU, April 28 - Somalia's lawmakers elected Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nur as their new speaker on Thursday, in a vote that was delayed most of the previous day due to disagreements over who would be in charge of the...
Mogadishu - Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdullahi was born in the rural area of the Mudug region, Puntland, in Somalia, in 1992, to a family of pastoralists.
At birth, he had normal vision.
He was brought to the city of Galkayo at the...
By Dr. Mohamud M. Uluso
Finally, on April 14, 2022, the Somali people and the international partners of Somalia breathed a sigh of relief on witnessing the swearing in of the selected/elected members of the 11th Federal Parliament (FP) after one...
By Ahmed M. Roble
Somalia’s Federal Electoral Implementation Team (FEIT) announced that 294+ members of the parliament are certified MPs from both lower and upper houses. On 14th April a swearing ceremony was done for these parliamentarians in the presence of Prime Minister...
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,...
Somalia's political history has been tumultuous. It has been engulfed in electoral disputes and conflict between the incumbent and prominent opposition members for the past two years, threatening the country's stability as a result of a term extension and...
As instability and famine continue to threaten the war-torn Horn of Africa country, Somalia's newly elected parliament met on Saturday for the first time, taking the country a step closer to the appointment of a new president.
Elections in Somalia...
Nasrin Mohamed Ahmed interviewing for Bilan. ‘Men think you should come in, read the news and go home,’ she says of attitudes from male colleagues in the media. Photograph: Bilan
By Isabel Choat
The pioneering Bilan project, funded by UN, will...