Somalia

Horndiplomat-Press Statement released by Freedom Center for Strategic Studies on Preventing Possible Renewed Border Conflict. Press-Statement • The Federal Government of Somalia and the Republic of Somaliland had an armed confrontation, several skirmishes and a military stand-off in the eastern Sool and Sanaag regions for the last...

Horndiplomat-The President of Puntland State of Somalia Abdiweli Mohamed Ali (Gaas) visited Wednesday in Badhan Sanaag region of Somaliland for the first time since when he becomes Somalia's region of Puntland president. Badhan, about 90 kilometers east of Erigavo, the capital of the largest region of Somaliland, Sanaag, The...

The Somali government said this week that it was ready to send troops to help with security and enhance peace in South Sudan, where officials and opposition groups recently signed an agreement to end a five-year civil war. The statement came days after the Intergovernmental...

Galkayo, between the Somali states of Puntland and Galmudug, is gradually becoming a ‘city of peace’: Government, civil society and partners all working together to make peace a reality through inclusive politics, reconciliation and development, one place at a time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhTdM4yXinU&feature=youtu.be SOURCE: UNSOM SOMALIA

Since 2010, Somalia’s airspace has been an issue between the successive governments of Somalia and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which currently manages the airspace on behalf of Somalia. The Somali state has made several unsuccessful attempts to regain the control and management of...

Regional bloc IGAD  has mandated Somalia and Djibouti to deploy troops to South Sudan to safeguard security and the implementation of the peace agreement. The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad), in a statement to the media on Monday afternoon, said Somalia and Djibouti have been...

As per international law, Somalia Federal Government is the only entity that is entitled to negotiate ICAO in the process of regaining airspace. It means the airspace above Somaliland is officially belongs to Somalia. However, Somaliland is essential in the process of regaining control...

MOGADISHU, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Suspected al-Shabab militants on Saturday launched an ambush at a checkpoint manned by government forces in Afgoye town about 30 km northwest of Mogadishu, police and witnesses said Saturday. A police officer who declined to be named told Xinhua that...

Somalia is unlikely to benefit from the China's Africa initiative, argues Liban Ahmad    Sino-Somali cooperation dates back to 1960s, when  Somalia was in its first decade of independence, and China in its second decade of communism under  Chairman Mao Zedong. The National Theatre in Mogadishu...

United Nations Envoy to Somalia Michael Keating says lack of trust among Somali leaders is complicating progress on the political and security fronts, and says the country’s federal and regional leaders need to compromise. Keating, who is leaving the office October 1, says there has...