Somalia

President of the Federal Republic of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Tuesday lauded the UAE for promoting and supporting development in his country, saying it has been one of the largest supporters of Somalia and its people over the course of the past two...

Horndiplomat-Press Statement released by Freedom Center for Strategic Studies on Preventing Possible Renewed Border Conflict. Press-Statement • The Federal Government of Somalia and the Republic of Somaliland had an armed confrontation, several skirmishes and a military stand-off in the eastern Sool and Sanaag regions for the last...

Turkey has provided Somalia with humanitarian aid worth 456 million Turkish liras ($121.9 million) since 2011, Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) said Thursday. AFAD contributed 255 million liras ($68.1 million) worth of aid while the Turkish Red Crescent provided 176 million liras ($47...

Sahro Abdikadir Arte shuffles through a mound of papers as she prepares for a morning meeting with her team of instructors ahead of another teaching session for street children. For the past 17 months, Sahro and her team of instructors have been running a programme...

Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gedu Andargachew welcomed Somalia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Mahdi Mohamed Guled to Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa , which is being held in Bahr Dar (May 4-5). This Year’s theme of Tana Forum is Political Dynamics in the Horn...

The Somali Partnership Forum, a major conference on the Horn of Africa state, has opened in Brussels, Belgium. The two-day forum is jointly chaired by the Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo and the European Union Foreign Affairs Chief Federica Magherini. The meeting is a follow...

In 2013, African Union (AU) leaders committed to a future where the continent is free from the scourge of conflict; pledging to “end all wars in Africa by 2020”. But the high ideals of Vision 2020 – also referred to as “Silencing the Guns” –...

Meeting between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed lasts for over an hour. Turkey’s president on Friday met with his Somali counterpart in Istanbul for talks, according to a statement from the Turkish presidency. The closed-door meeting between Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Somalia’s Mohamed...

Two soldiers reportedly killed after explosion at a security checkpoint outside parliament in Mogadishu. A car bomb detonated near Somalia's parliament in the capital Mogadishu, killing at least two people and wounding several others, a senior police officer said. The bomb exploded on Sunday at a...

No civilians were killed in this airstrike STUTTGART, Germany, April 3, 2018/ -- In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Forces conducted an airstrike against Al-Shabaab militants near El Burr, Somalia, the afternoon of April 1, killing five (5) terrorists and destroying one...