Somalia

By: UNSOM Baidoa – South West State was the latest stop for the recently-appointed top United Nations official for Somalia, who today met that Federal Member State’s (FMS) leadership for a wide-ranging exchange on collaboration and support.

By ASAD HUSSEINOCT. 21, 2017 NAIROBI, Kenya — One evening in August, I climbed onto a dusty old truck in the Dadaab refugee camp in the eastern Kenyan desert, about 50 miles from the border with Somalia. A tarpaulin in the truck bed covered the...

Press-release International partners* are following with deep concern the current situation and political developments. We call on Somalia’s leaders to put the country’s interests first, to de-escalate rising political tensions, and to refrain from provocation or use of force that could undermine peace and stability. International...

By: ALJAZEERA The United States has said that a group of attackers who tried to seize an Israel-linked cargo ship over the weekend were probably Somali pirates rather than Houthi fighters from nearby Yemen.Speaking on Monday, Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General...

5 December 2017 – A gathering of senior representatives of the Somali Government, the United Nations and the international community concluded in Mogadishu today with a call for greater investment in the country’s economic development to create more job opportunities, rehabilitate essential infrastructure, and...

Garowe - Continuing their regular contact with the leaders of Somalia’s Federal Member States, representatives of some of the country’s international partners today visited Puntland to discuss a range of issues, with a particular focus on upcoming local and federal elections. “On the local elections, we were...

BY: IGAD The 41st Extraordinary Assembly of the IGAD Heads of State and Government was held on Saturday, 9th December 2023, in Djibouti, Republic of Djibouti, on the situation in Sudan and was chaired by H.E. Ismail Omar Guelleh, President...

By: Muscat daily Muscat – Oman Charitable Organisation (OCO) has begun distributing food aid among people of Mogadishu, Somalia. A statement issued by OCO on Tuesday said, ‘The aid is part of the programmes of the organisation for Somalia; 20,000 families will benefit from this consignment of...

Mogadishu, 28 October 2020 – The United Nations in Somalia strongly condemns the murder of two humanitarian workers, who were reportedly killed yesterday in the capital, Mogadishu, by suspected Al-Shabaab terrorists. The two Somali humanitarian workers were involved with an ongoing polio vaccination campaign, organized by the...

Incumbent President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud concedes defeat after two rounds of voting and congratulates new leader. A former prime minister who holds dual Somali-US citizenship has been declared Somalia's new president. Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo was declared the new leader after two rounds of voting on Wednesday...