Somalia

  The constitutional mandate of the incumbent president has expired in February this year while the parliamentary and presidential elections were contentious. The embattled president and the federal member states several times had meetings on the type of the elections, but all their efforts ended...

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Military transport planes from the United Arab Emirates landed on the sleepy Yemeni island of Socotra last week, unloading tanks and troops as part of the Gulf Arab state’s drive to extend its influence over a strategic waterway flanked by...

Horndiplonat-Mayor of Mogadishu Abdirahman Omar Osman injured in explosion in his office, he is being evacuated to a hospital, officials. Early reports indicate an explosion occurred inside the HQs of Mogadishu. According to Senior Voa Journalists Harun Maruf Suspected suicide bombing at Mogadishu Mayor’s office....

By: AP A Somali migrant serving life in prison for people smuggling appeared in court on Monday to appeal his sentence, in a case backed by a group of European Parliament members who say he was wrongfully convicted.

By:MoDuale Somalia reported 257 more cases of COVID-19 to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 5,889.Horndiplomat reports Fawziya Abikar, the health minister said the majority of the latest cases were recorded in Banadir which have 255, Galmudug 1, Hirshabele 1, Abikar said nineteen...

 Constructive engagement between the executive and legislative branches is  the viable option to prevent undoing progress in Somalia , writes Liban Ahmad The Somali Federal Parliament Speaker, Mohamed Mursal, issued a statement to the effect that the impeachment motion against President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo still stands. The Speaker's intervention...

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...

Police in Somalia's semi-autonomous region Puntland commercial capital Bosaso Sunday confiscated and destroyed several kilograms of khat following illegal smuggling of the leafy stimulant into the town. Bari regional commissioner Col. Hussein Ali Mohamud told journalists the consignment was discovered by police following a tip-off from...

Kenya Airways has reintroduced nonstop flights to Mogadishu, Somalia, in an effort to increase footprints within the region. The thrice-weekly flights will bring about nonstop travel, focusing on reduced travel time and enhanced accessibility between...

In a letter to the Speaker of the Somali Federal Parliament, Abdulkarim Buh,the Parliamentary Secretary, stated that the impeachment motion against the Somali President failed to meet the requirement that least 92 MPs can ask the Parliament to consider impeachment motion....