A communication mast that was destroyed by suspected Shabaab militia in a past attack. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP As states adopt measures to halt the spread of Covid-19, an ‘Iron Curtain’ has descended across the Horn of...
Somalia is still on a long journey of national recovery to become free of insecurity, free of debt and free to vote leaders into power. Until that time, the leaders of the Somali nation bear a special responsibility to...
A man casts his ballot on November 16, 2016, in Baidoa, Somalia. PHOTO | SIMON MAINA | AFP By Aman Obsiye Introduction On July 25, 2020, the Federal Parliament of Somalia (House of the People) ousted Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire in...
The U.S. Embassy regrets the actions of the President and Lower House of Parliament to withdraw confidence in Prime Minister Ali Hassan Khayre and his government, which heightened political tensions and undermined the ongoing process of dialogue and negotiation...
Somali Prime Minister Hassan Khaire, the longest-tenured PM in post-civil war Somalia has been ousted out of office in an abrupt vote of a no-confidence motion on Saturday. The Lower House sitting in Mogadishu voted Saturday to remove the PM...
UK aid package will help control millions of locusts attacking crops across East Africa, Yemen and South West Asia. Somalia is set to benefit from new UK funding to tackle this year’s unprecedented locust outbreaks across Africa and Asia. The UK’s...
Somaliland capitalized on the summit and took the opportunity to advance its cause by making its case on legal, moral and historical grounds–president Bihi has long sought for an international stage to articulate the case of Somaliland. FGS was...
Somalis living abroad have taken to raising funds to help family and friends cope with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, amidst claims from a recent RAND Corporation report that Somalia is the world’s most underequipped country to deal with the...
By Anwar A. Bashir The world is encountering enormous challenges, especially during the pandemic where all the countries are suffering because of the invisible and the invincible Covid-19. Moreover, some countries are exploiting the Covid-19 in order to extend their...
By Ahmed Shiiraar and Ahmed Mohamed Introduction Somalis are known as an oral society as many western linguists, anthropologists, and cultural historians had observed for years—as narrative making, poetry has been the most important tool used as a medium for storytelling...