Seven Africans named in Time 100 influential list
By:BBC Africa
Time magazine has listed seven Africans among its list of the 100 most influential people in the world for 2021, including figures from the world of academia, science, activism and economics.
The Nigerian head of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, featured on the list,...
New report details devastating impact of Covid on marginalised communities in Somaliland
A new international report led by the Third Generation Project at the University of St Andrews reveals the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on internally displaced persons in Somaliland.
Working in partnership with SOM-ACT and Transparency Solutions, the new ground-breaking report, led by the Third Generation Project (TGP), an international think tank that...
Op-Ed: Somalia is between Farmajo’s Way or the Highway
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...
Somalia’s Economy Rebounding from ‘Triple Shock’
NAIROBI, September 14, 2021 — Somalia’s economy is rebounding from the “triple shock” that ravaged the country in 2020: the COVID-19 pandemic, extreme flooding, and the locust infestation. Real GDP growth is projected at 2.4 percent in 2021. This growth momentum is expected to...
Op-Ed: Somaliland must learn how to play by the global geopolitical rules!
(A note to the newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation of the Republic of Somaliland.)
Written by Hussein Adan Igeh (Deyr),
In a rapidly changing geo-political dynamics as well as security, political and economic challenges in the Horn of Africa Region, where Somaliland...
Somalia: UN Deputy Secretary-General encourages sustained progress on women’s political participation as well as peaceful forthcoming elections
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed undertook a visit to Somalia today in solidarity with Somali women's calls for full and equal participation in political life, and to express the support of the international community for timely, inclusive, peaceful and credible elections.
The Deputy...
TIKA Builds Water-Collection Pools for Somaliland Countryside Villages
Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) built water pools in Somaliland, which is facing the danger of famine because it is one of the regions that receive the least rainfall in the African continent.
TİKA implemented water pools project in Somaliland, which is suffering from...
Efforts under way to end Somalia leaders’ spat
By:AFP
Somalia’s regional leaders of South West and Galmudug State have arrived in Mogadishu in a bid to end an ongoing public spat between President Mohamed Farmaajo and his Prime Minister Hussein Roble.
Presidents Abdiaziz Hassan Laftagareen of South West and Ahmed Abdi Karie Qoorqoor of...
Uganda’s President threatens to pull out troops from Somalia
By:BBC AFRICA
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has threatened to withdraw the country’s troops from the African Union's peacekeeping mission in Somalia.
He issued the warning following an escalating row between Somalia's president and prime minister.
President Museveni made a similar threat in 2011 to push Somali leaders...
Somalia: Another Afghanistan is imminent
By:Anwar Abdifatah Bashir
The two countries share gigantic issues. Both are Muslim nations with Sunni sect. As “Angus Hamilton” who was a British war correspondent who had visited in early 20th century both countries, had written two memoirs. Afghanistan Book in 1906, and Somaliland Book...
