By Abdiaziz Amalo The chances of winning for a candidate with a verifiable criminal record for a seat in the 2022 Somali Federal Parliament is 85 percent whereas the chance of winning for a candidate with a clean background is...
UK Special Envoy for Famine Prevention and Humanitarian Affairs, Nick Dyer visits Somalia, announces further UK funding. The UK’s Special Envoy for Famine Prevention and Humanitarian Affairs, Nick Dyer, visited Somalia this week to call for a concerted effort to...
Villagers return from a market to Yechila town in south central Tigray walking past scores of burned vehicles, in Tigray, Ethiopia, July 10, 2021.GIULIA PARAVICINI/Reuters New revelations about atrocities by Somali soldiers in Ethiopia’s Tigray war are casting a spotlight...
Somalia's Foreign Minister thanked the U.K government for their enormous contribution to Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia, January 18, 2022-The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, H.E. Mr. Abdisaid Muse Ali, on Tuesday, spoke with UK Minister for Africa, H.E Vicky...
Somalia’s government spokesperson was wounded on Sunday in an explosion in the capital suspected to have been set off by a suicide bomber, state-run media reported. A photographer at the scene of the explosion reported seeing body parts lying on...
A car bomb exploded on a road leading to the airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, the head of the city's ambulance services said. Mogadishu resident Mohamed Osman said the shock of the...
By Dr. Mohamud M Uluso The 2016-2017 parliamentary and presidential elections, in which Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo defeated incumbent president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud with wide margin, represented a political momentous in the history of post-civil war Somali government for peaceful transfer...
Somalia’s allies expressed alarm over the intensifying row between the country’s president and prime minister as heavily armed factions patrolled parts of Mogadishu yesterday, raising fears that the political crisis could erupt into violence. Soldiers loyal to the premier took...
By Abdirizak M. Diis In the wake of recent developments in the political arena of Somalia between President Farmajo and Prime minister Mohamed Hussein Roble requires bold and prudent actions in saving the country's future. Beginning with the armed forces...
Press Release Response to Office of the President's 26 December 2021 statement on the ongoing national elections Date: 26 December 2021 The Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Mohamed Hussein Roble, is disappointed with the 26 December 2021 statement...