BY AMANDA SPERBER
In 2013, Somalia’s federal government wanted to create a counter-terrorism combat force to take on Islamist militants al-Shabab, which seeks to overthrow the government. After negotiations with the United States, an elite special forces unit was created...
Pastoralists and their livestock have been cut off by river floods in southern Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region, forcing them to use boats to transport their animals.
Ahmed Hussein told Radio Ergo that he was having to buy rice chaff to...
The Federation of Somali Trade Unions (FESTU) has today extended solidarity to striking workers of Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport after their employer, FAVORI LLC Airport Management and Ground Handling Company, has flagrantly violated their basic labour rights and...
The AU can contribute constructively to the ongoing negotiations between Somalia and Somaliland by providing technical support and acting as guarantor to ensuing agreements.
The leaders of Somalia and the self-declared independent region of Somaliland held a landmark Consultations Summit...
At least nine people were killed and 14 others injured on Saturday in a suicide car bombing in the Somalian capital, officials said.
Salad Mohamed, a senior police officer in Mogadishu told Anadolu Agency by phone, that a car laden...
By Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf
The Charter of the United Nations is not only the constituent instrument of the United Nations as an organization. It is a multilateral legal manifesto encompassing a set of basic principles and norms aimed at ensuring...
NAIROBI - As Somalia and the self-declared republic of Somaliland head toward elections, conflict experts are calling on both sides not to let politics disrupt progress in recent talks.
The two sides disagree on the status of Somaliland, which declared...
Hundreds gather for prayer at the scene of a massive truck bomb attack in Mogadishu in October 2017, the deadliest to hit conflict-torn Somalia.
In September 2014, a US drone strike killed Al-Shabaab’s most influential leader, Ahmed Abdi Godane. The immediate assumption...
Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, flanked by government officials, addresses delegates inside a renovated Somalia's National Theatre in Mogadishu, the capital, on June 26, 2020. A Somali military court acquited radio journalist Mohamed Abdiwahab Nuur on August 5, 2020....
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Somalia expects to announce the winners of its first oil and gas licensing round early next year, as the country seeks petrodollars to help rebuild its struggling economy, a senior government oil official said on...