When aid agencies push false narratives to make a case for funding, it’s not just accuracy that’s the casualty. It’s the people that suffer, in very real terms. Recently, Save the Children reported that 90% of families in Somaliland and...
China’s extensive interests in the Horn of Africa include the Ethiopia-Djibouti railway, funded and built by Chinese interests. Photo: Xinhua When China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke with his counterpart in Somalia on Monday, they had a common mission –...
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....
Following the military invasion of Russia in Ukraine, Somalia and China started flexing muscles in gestures and words none can miss at targets aimed – Somaliland and Taiwan. Mr. Abdisaid Muse Ali, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Somalia, echoing a...
Somalia's ambassador to China has condemned talks between Taiwan and a separatist region of Somalia. That was in an exclusive interview with CGTN. Somaliland is not recognized by any sovereign state, and Taiwan is a region of China. The ambassador...
By Dekow Diriye Somalia is about to finalize the most corrupt, most controversial, and most rigged legislative elections in the country's history. In fact, this election–or, rather, "selection"--process has a chance of winning or entering into the Guinness Book of...
By Patrick Molliere I joined and was present from the inception of Somalia’s Petroleum Process 2005 on a high level position, when the petroleum process began in 2007, we agreed that, in order to avoid corruption, blocks would be awarded...
The Dahabshiil Charity Foundation which is part of the Dahabshiil Group of Companies has donated by 4000 waterbuzzers to drought affected people in Somali speaking regions. In a Press Statement Signed by Mr. Saeed M Dualeh , the Vice Chairman...
Somalia’s al-Shabab militant group has an annual budget of $24 million to spend on purchasing weapons, a new report finds. The report by a Mogadishu-based research group, the Hiraal Institute, said the group uses various methods to procure weapons, including...
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...