Somaliland: Climate change is obliterating pastoralism, which employs 70 per cent of Somalilanders
By: @alice_rowsome and @YahyeXanas investigate.
SOURCE By: New internationalist
Climate change is obliterating pastoralism, which employs 70 per cent of Somalilanders. The government has grand plans to re-orient to the sea. But can foreign interests be kept at bay?
Sahil District, Somaliland, 2017. The driver was following...
Somaliland: Beautiful Choices (Elections 2021)
By:Ismail Ahmed Ismail
Somaliland is a symbol of promising and successful democracy for the past 20 years. Which held on seven one-person, one-vote elections. So, this article focuses on 2021 combined elections ( House of Representative and local government ) which were awaited elections...
Somaliland: Human Rights Center Condemns the Arbitrary Detention of Ismaacil Cabdilaahi Xuseen and Cabdiqani Sh. Maxamed Sh. Cumar
Human Rights Center is concerned with the egregious abuse of power and arrests of two citizens in borama on July 3rd, 2021, Ismaacil Cabdilaahi Xuseen, a business man and Cabdiqani Sheik Maxamed Sheik Cumar who is a teacher. The reasons for their arrests coincide...
Somalia maintains maritime row will be decided by ICJ
By: The Star
Somalia has maintained that the maritime dispute with Kenya will be decided by the International Court of Justice. This emerged on Sunday during Foreign Affairs CS Raychelle Omamo's maiden official visit to the country.
In a statement after their bilateral meeting, Somalia PM...
Abourma Rock Art Site: Hidden gem in Djibouti
BY FRENCH PRESS AGENCY - AFP
The black cliffs of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa may seem featureless at the first sight from afar. However, the rocks reveal 7,000-year-old engravings depicting various figures, from giraffes to antelopes, that offer insight into the past of the...
Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Minister arrives in Somalia for talks
By:MoDuale
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Ambassador Raychelle Omamo, who is Kenya's Foreign Affairs Minister, arrived in Mogadishu on Sunday morning.
She is expected to meet her counterpart Mohamed Abdirizak, Prime Minister Hussein Roble, and later hold talks with President Mohamed Farmaajo.
Somalia Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdirizak confirms on Twitter the meeting between...
Ethiopian-born Dutch runner Sifan Hassan wins her third Olympic medal, this time another gold in the 10,000 meters
BY:NEWSYORKTIMES
TOKYO — At the end of 24,500 meters of hard running in six races over nine days, Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands stood alone before tumbling to the track, disbelief etched across her face.
On Saturday, Hassan won the women’s 10,000 meters at the Tokyo...
Somalia Rejects African Union Proposal for Scaling Back Peacekeepers
BY:VOA, HARUN MARUF
The Somali government has formally rejected African Union recommendations for a scaled-down peacekeeping presence in the Horn of Africa country, calling a report and its proposals “devoid of realities.”
“The experts who conducted the assessment didn’t sufficiently consult with the federal government of...
US adds two Al-Shabaab operatives to global terror list
By: Reuters
The State Department on Friday announced the addition of five alleged Islamist militants to its Specially Designated Global Terrorist list, requiring the blocking of any ownership or interests in U.S. properties they hold.
The designations also expose to possible U.S. sanctions individuals or foreign...
Mohamed Ahmed wins silver: Canadian sprints to second in dramatic finish at Olympics
Canada’s Mo Ahmed closed with amazing speed through the final bend and down the stretch to claim Olympic silver on Friday in the men’s 5,000 metres, a race dominated so long by Kenyans, Ethiopians and Great Britain’s Mo Farah, who won the previous two...