MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up near the Somali presidential palace on Tuesday, killing at least two soldiers in a strike apparently aimed at the country's leaders, a palace guard at the scene said.
Officials working in...
Mogadishu, Somalia - Ali Hassan spends his day sitting in a former mosque, now a ramshackle shelter for drug users, idly staring at his cell phone as he waits for it to ring. A gravedigger with more than 20...
In Somaliland, we appear to have a government. It looks like a government, often talks like a government, and sometimes behaves like a government. But you can’t really understand the modus operandi of Silanyo’s government until you scratch beneath...
PRESS FREEDOM LETTER
January 28, 2013
H.E Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
President of the Federal Republic of Somalia
Office of the President of Somalia
Villa Somalia, Mogadishu
Via email
Dear President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud,
We are writing to express our concern about a Somali journalist who has been...
Jan 28, 2013
Until 2010, Hussein Abdi Dualeh worked as a simple project manager in Los Angeles overseeing the use of natural gas as fuel for cars. It was a natural progression given his downstream engineering experience and his career...
Somaliland has to project strong image to protect, preserve and uphold its legitimacy as an independent country and send a strong signal to the world that no eventuality, group or nation will undermine, derail or stop, its quest for...
Health Minister director general instructs all gynecologists in Israel's four health maintenance organizations not to inject women with long-acting contraceptive Depo-Provera if they do not understand ramifications of treatment
Israel admits Ethiopian women were given birth control shots
Health Minister director...
Foreign Office Travel Advice already advises against all travel to Somalia, including Somaliland, and advises all British nationals to leave. We are now aware of a specific threat to Westerners in Somaliland, and urge any British nationals who remain...
LONDON (AP) — The Times of London says a secret section of a United Nations report has linked British citizens with Somali piracy.
The newspaper says that a 2012 report drawn up by the UN's Monitoring Group on Somalia and...
Somaliland First Lady Amina Sheik Mohamed Jirde (Amina Weris) was the guest of honor in a well-attended opening ceremony of a new children’s Hospital today in Hargeisa which was built by the widow of the late Mohamed Adan Sheik...