Somalia’s controversial and long overdue elections have finally been concluded, both the chairmen of the higher and lower houses have been elected as well as the president of the Federal Republic of Somalia Mr. Hasan Sh. Mohamoud, And the...
Somalia Election Presidential candidates, former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, center, and incumbent leader Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, right, attend a voting session for the presidential election at the Halane military camp which is protected by African Union peacekeepers, in Mogadishu, Somalia...
By Sadiq Abdullahi Abdirahman
The Somali parliamentary committee tasked with preparing for the presidential election has rapidly set the date of May 15, 2022, as the day polls will be held. The combined legislators from both upper and lower houses...
Two former presidents will face off against the incumbent in Somalia's long-delayed presidential vote on Sunday behind blast walls to protect lawmakers from Islamist attacks and meddling by factions within the security services.
President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed is among 39...
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 Abdirizak M. Diis
Somalia’s peace-building process and state recovery have suffered in the last five years under the leadership of former President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo. Confidence in the armed forces eroded, separation of powers between the legislature and the...
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...