BY IBRAHIM MOHAMED AND VAHE MIRIKIAN Somalia’s Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble unveiled the timetable for indirect parliamentary and presidential elections. The timetable schedules elections for the upper house to take place on July 25 and the lower house between...
Somalia desperately needs new leadership to restore constitutional rule and to set its teetering political transition back on track. Farmaajo’s removal would therefore be a welcome step On 4 July, the leadership of Somalia’s Federal Electoral Implementation Team (FEIT), was...
At least five people were killed and about six others injured in a bomb attack in Mogadishu Saturday morning. Police spokesman Adan Doodishe said Banaadir regional police chief Farhan Mohamud Qaroole survived the attack which reportedly targeted his convoy. "The commander...
The recent announcement by Ismail Ahmed, founder of the Global money transfer company Wordremit, that he would invest $500 million of his own wealth to support development projects in the Somaliland, his birth place, is the latest pointer to...
The international partners on Monday welcomed steps that have been taken by Somali leaders to ensure success of the electoral process. The partners including the African Union, the European Union and the United Nations among other Western countries called on...
By Abdiaziz Arab The recent execution of twenty-one Al-Shabaab terrorists and affiliates in Galkayo was a step forward in the fight against terrorism in Somalia. Defeating Al-Shabaab militarily alone, though, is not enough, we must defeat their poisonous and un-Islamic...
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...
Mogadishu, July 1 – The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia and Head of AMISOM, Ambassador Francisco Madeira, has today congratulated the government and the people of Somalia, on the occasion of...
The Defense Department is considering sending U.S. troops back to Somalia just about six months after pulling them all out of the country as part of a broader look at the military’s force posture. In December, then-President Donald J. Trump...
The humanitarian situation in Somalia is dire and the country is struggling to cope with the triple effect of COVID-19, the desert locust infestation and flooding, drought has also been declared in the country. Currently funding is at its lowest...