Somalia

24 April 2019, DJIBOUTI (Djibouti): The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) welcomes the recent decision by the Government of Belgium to recognise diplomatic and service passports issued by the Federal Government of Somalia. The following statement was issued today by the IGAD Executive Secretary.  IGAD Executive...

By:Zakariye Ahmed, Horn diplomat correspondent More than 3,000 militants from Al-Shabaab were killed and other 3,700 were wounded in the last six months of military operations against Al-Shabaab militant group, Somalia's government says in a statement on Saturday.

An Al Qaeda affiliate has seized control of uranium mines in Africa with the intent of supplying the material to Iran, according to a diplomatic letter from a top Somali official appealing to the U.S. for "immediate military assistance." The letter, reviewed by Fox News,...

MOGADISHU: Several thousand fans on Friday watched the first night-time football match to be played in Mogadishu since chaos descended on the Somali capital nearly three decades ago, raucously backing their respective teams in what the mayor called a “historic” event. The match – the...

Mogadishu – December 15, 2018: AMISOM denies involvement in the arrest of Mukhtar Robow and his subsequent transfer to Mogadishu. Statement by the AU Special Rep Ambassador Francisco Madeira calls “all parties to exercise the utmost restraint”. Statement by Amisom  The Special representative of the Chairperson of...

By:BBC British man Darren Anthony Byrnes was one of two foreigners to be sentenced to 15 years by a military court in Somalia for belonging to Islamist militant group al-Shabab. Byrnes and Malaysian Ahmad Mustakim bin Abdul Hamid were convicted of recruiting foreigners. Al-Shabab has been battling...

By:UNSOM Somalia’s maritime capabilities received a major boost today with the inauguration of a new, state-of-the-art facility for the Somali Police Force (SPF) in the capital, Mogadishu, funded by the European Union and developed by the United Nations.

By: SONNA Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud held a fruitful meeting with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres at the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu on Tuesday. The two leaders discussed the future of bilateral...

ANKARA Several African nations offered condolences Saturday to Turkey after a deadly earthquake hit the Aegean coast. Thirty-nine people were killed and nearly 900 injured after a magnitude-6.6 earthquake jolted Izmir on Friday, the country's health minister said Saturday. Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmaajo said: “We...

By: Staff writter Turkey on Saturday condemned a terrorist attack in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu .HornDiplomat reports ​Turkey Foreign Ministry in a statement on its website expressed the country's condolences over the attack, in which eight people have been killed and 14 others wounded . "We received the...