Somalia

By: United Nations Rome – A new food security and nutrition analysis reveals that famine is unfolding in parts of Somalia, while staggering levels of suffering can be seen across the country. In response, the heads of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee...

Press-release The funding is expected to support almost 500,000 people in Somalia to access clean water and afford food supplies. The UK’s Minister for Africa, Vicky Ford MP, today (17 January 2022) announced a $10 million package of UK support for Somalis affected by extreme drought,...

Horndiplomat- A suicide car bomb hit a security checkpoint outside the national theatre in central Mogadishu, deaths and injuries reported. Explosion has damaged nearby buildings including a media house . At least three dead after car bomb explosion in...

By: Yusuf Hassan, Horndiplomat Correspondent in Mogadishu Horndiplomat- US Under Secretary for Political Affairs David Hale met today with Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre in Mogadishu, Somalia. According to the US Mission to Somalia, The Under Secretary reaffirmed America’s commitment to assist Somalia with political...

By: Business Daily Africa Kenya has exported miraa worth Sh1 billion to Somalia in under a month since the resumption of trade coming as a major reprieve to growers who had been hit hard when Mogadishu imposed a...

BY:HOL Somalia's Minister of Finance, Dr. Abdirahman Duale Beyle, has called on Somali's in the diaspora to support the government financially after Somalia's international partners have stopped providing budgetary support to the federal government of Somalia since August 2020. The Minister made these comments on Saturday...

By:AA Türkiye on Sunday reiterated its support for peace and stability in Somalia. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a phone call with his Somali counterpart Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to discuss bilateral relations and...

MOGADISHU - An alliance of Somali opposition parties proposed the creation of a national council of lawmakers, opposition leaders and civil society to govern the war-ravaged Horn of Africa nation after the president’s term expired on Monday with no clear plan for succession. The power...

Somalia has doubled taxes levied on the leafy stimulant khat which is mainly imported from Kenya and Ethiopia in what is going to further put into distress exporters of the product from the two countries which are already reeling from the suspension of business...

Mr. Abdirashid Duale, General CEO of Dahabshil Group speaking to BBC Somali services said they have provided relief assistance to more than 3000 residents of Belet Weyne and its environs in the Hiran region of Somalia. Mr Duale told the BBC Somali reporter, “We are all...