Somalia

Somali graduates are proud, inquisitive and, in many cases, innovative. They are certainly ambitious and should be confident about their future in a country blessed with so much natural resources and potential.  Yet, at the best of times, there is a tragic disconnect between the...

By: Yonhap News Agency SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Yonhap) -- South Korea was set to dispatch a fresh batch of troops to the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday for anti-piracy efforts, the Navy said, amid speculation the contingent could also undertake missions in the Strait of...

By: Bangkokpost Eighteen Thai fishermen rescued from reportedly slave-like conditions on a trawler in Somalia returned to Bangkok on Monday as labour officials considered opening a human trafficking probe. The fishing crew arrived at Suvarnabhumi airport on Thai Airways flight TG581 from Dubai, where 14 of...

By: Hiiraan The Thai government announced this week that about 50 migrants have been detained on the beaches near Bossaso, Bari region. Thailand's foreign ministry spokesman Busadee Santipitaks said Wednesday that Puntland authorities and the federal government have responded positively to a request by their embassy...

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: Xinhua MOGADISHU, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said Somalia's gross domestic product (GDP) could remain broadly unchanged at around 2.9 percent in 2019 if normal rains resume later this year. The IMF, whose board completed review of Somalia last month,...

Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo renounces his United States citizenship despite Somalia constitution allowing for dual citizenship. According to Senior Journalist Harun Maruf, a statement released by Villa Somalia says legal experts, and nationalities and citizenship authorities from Somalia and US were involved in the...

Somalia’s government says the mayor of Mogadishu has died after being badly wounded in an al-Shabab extremist attack in his office last week. The spokesman for Somalia’s president said Abdirahman Omar Osman died Thursday in Qatar, where he had been airlifted for treatment after the...

By: World Health Organization The second synchronized Horn of Africa cross-border polio coordination and micro-planning meeting which was organized for district-level health officials of Ethiopia and Somaliland and Puntland held from 16-18, July 2019 in Jigjiga city of Somali region in Ethiopia. The first synchronized...

BY:: Xinhua Some 625 Ugandan peacekeepers have arrived in Mogadishu to begin duties of supporting the UN efforts to bring peace and stability to the Horn of Africa nation, the UN said on Friday. The UN Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS) said the new officers and...