Somalia

Somalia has entered a dangerous political stalemate that could unravel the significant progress made on peace-building and state-building since the end of the transition in 2012. The announcement on 8 September 2018 by the leaders of five federal member states to suspend cooperation with...

Horndiplomat-According to Press statement released by British Embassy in Mogadishu said  The UK’s Minister for Africa, Harriett Baldwin MP, made her first trip to Somalia this weekend, visiting Mogadishu-Horndiplomat Reports Press-Release The UK’s Minister for Africa, Harriett Baldwin MP, made her first trip to Somalia this weekend, visiting...

Horndiplomat-Freedom Center for Strategic Studies (FCSS) released position paper that to indicates the Waves of Change in the Horn of Africa: Challenges and Opportunities.Horndiplomat Reports Background The Horn of Africa is a strategically significant region that geographically commands the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and...

By CORRESPONDENT,  NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 2 – Pressure is mounting on Somaliland and Somalia to sit on a round table and sort their political and border disputes. The international community wants talks between the leadership in Hargeisa (Somaliland) and Mogadishu (Somalia) to re-open dialogue to end the...

Unidentified gunmen shot dead four Ethiopian refugees in (Bossasso), the commercial capital of northern Somalia semi-autonomous of Puntland, officials said Monday. Initial reports said that armed men have shot the four civilians thought be ethnic Oromos at a close range in an attack in Santos,...

Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda on Thursday warned world leaders gathered for the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York that any reduction of peacekeeping troops in Somalia should match the strengthening of the country’s security forces. In a speech he delivered...

Somalia's foreign minister is telling the U.N. General Assembly that his young government has made significant strides in fighting violent al-Shabab militants, and called on the world body to lift its long-standing arms embargo. Ahmed Awad Isse says young people are no longer joining al-Shabab...

The Country Partnership Framework FY 2019-2022 reflects the progress in economic reforms and institution building since 2013, and marks the first IDA financing for government in more than 30 years   WASHINGTON, September 25, 2018 – The World Bank Group’s (WBG) Board of Directors endorsed the first four-year Country...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Somali Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Isse Awad have discussed the prospects of building up political and trade cooperation.   MOSCOW- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Somali Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Isse Awad have discussed the prospects of...

Police in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region in Somalia, should rigorously investigate the killing of Abdirisak Said Osman, a reporter and photographer with the privately owned radio station Codka Nabada, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Abdirisak died on September 19 in the city of...