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Undocumented immigrants who were being deported to Somalia on Thursday made it to Senegal before they all returned on a flight back to the U.S., according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Somali citizens, some of whom had lived in the U.S. for...

Transparency International, the anti-corruption organisation, together with Humanitarian Outcomes will publish a report on 13 December examining the main corruption risks in humanitarian operations in southern Somalia. At a time when the scale and complexity of humanitarian emergencies around the world is increasing, often in...

By: Staff writer US secretary of state Antony Blinken congratulated Somalia's newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on tuesday. "The United Stacongratulates newly elected Somali President Mohamudtes congratulates the people of Somalia on the conclusion of...

BY:HOL Mogadishu-The Somali government has recalled its ambassador to UN Human Rights Council on Friday, barely a day after Somalia abstained to vote on a resolution condemning the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights. Ambassador Faduma Abdullahi Mohamed was summoned to Mogadishu by the Somali Foreign...

Somalia says an agreement it signed with Kenya in 2009 was not specific on how to resolve the maritime boundary dispute between the two countries. In its submissions before the International Court of Justice, Mogadishu argued that the memorandum of understanding (MoU) only dealt with...

By: CRP blogs On 19 April Saudi Arabia temporarily lifted its ban on livestock imports from Somalia/Somaliland, in order to stabilise its own meat supply. Considering Somalia’s strong dependence on Saudi Arabia for livestock exports, this is an important economic boost to the wider Somali sub-region linked...

The Governor of Somaliland’s drought-ravaged eastern province of Togdheer stood calmly against a backdrop of flimsy shelters created out of thorn bushes and scraps of plastic and torn cloth that had sprung up in the two months that I’d last been in the villages...

By:UNSOM Hargeisa - Even before a visitor sits down in the office of Nafisa Yusuf Mohamed, they are fully aware of her views. There is a hard-to-miss, large poster on a wall in her office, which reads: "Being a woman is more than biology.” The 44-year-old mother of...

Turkish officials continue name-calling barrage as dispute over political rallying in foreign nations intensifies. Turkey's leaders continued their verbal assault on the Netherlands on Sunday with its foreign minister accusing his NATO ally of being "the capital of fascism". Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu made the comments...

By:East African Business Week Somaliland will soon start exporting livestock to the Middle East after an agreement reached by a delegation led by the country’s president and the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Making his second visit to the UAE in just over two...