Al-Shabab announced Sunday it has executed three of its own members for alleged spying on the militants for Somali, US, and Ethiopian intelligence agencies.
The convicts - Dini Abdulkadir, Isse Osman, Aden Hassan and Abdulaziz Hassan were executed by a...
Mogadishu – “Culture is the fountain of our progress and creativity and must be carefully nurtured to grow and develop,” according to the World Commission on Culture and Development – and it is a view many people in Somalia would agree with,...
By Shukri Said
The coronavirus pandemic that has swept across the world since the beginning of 2020 has put all states to the test. Some reacted with positive results, limiting deaths and the rate of infections, others less so. Among the...
The government of Somalia has ordered the expulsion of CARE Country Director Iman Abdullahi, according to a letter issued Tuesday.
The letter, which was sent from the country’s Minister of Education, Culture and Higher Education Abdullahi Godah Barre, accused the head of CARE Somalia...
By Abdullahi H. Samoow
Somalia is once again at the crossroads and on the brink of collapse. Somali people are mindful of what this means to them. It took 20+ years of civil war, devastation, lack of government, starvation and...
By ABDULKADIR KHALIF
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Somalia's political leaders have finally agreed on a poll model that involves electoral caucuses. As part of the agreement, each Caucus of 303 delegates will elect an MP who will get a seat in parliament.
Each federal...
Militants have carried out an attack on a beachfront hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday, killing at least five people and injuring nearly 30 others, officials said.
Officials and witnesses told VOA Somali that a car bomb exploded outside Elite...
Somalia cabinet has approved the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) treaty for ratification to help spur trade with other African
A statement issued by the office of the acting Prime Minister Mahdi Mohamed Guled said on Friday that the...
The tempo of al-Shabaab’s operations in Somalia has steadily increased, despite a dramatic escalation in U.S.-led drone strikes in Somalia. In July alone, al-Shabaab targeted the head of Somalia’s military and launched attacks on five different targets in a...
No term extension in Somalia, the U.S ambassador to Somalia Donald Yamamoto has said calling for consensus in the upcoming talks in Dhusamareb.
A tweet from the U.S embassy in Mogadishu noted an agreed electoral model should be based on...