Somalia

COMESA Ministers of Justice and Attorneys General have passed new regional legal instruments among them, the COMESA Airspace Agreement and the Agreement on Admission of Somalia to COMESA. The regional airspace Agreement and its enabling regulations aims at achieving a seamless upper airspace for the...

Somalia’s international partners are gravely concerned over the latest armed clashes taking place today near the Tukaraq area of the Sool region between Puntland and ‘Somaliland,’ and are urgently calling for an immediate ceasefire. According to reports, heavy fighting broke out earlier this morning between...

.Following sweeping reforms that the United Arab Emirates made to its visa and immigration rules on Sunday, Abdirashid Duale, CEO of the global remittance giant Dahabshiil, said this provided an unprecedented window of opportunity for Somali investors. "Somalis had been trading with the UAE in...

  مخطئٌ من ظنّ يوماً أنّ للثعلب دينا He who (UAE) thinks that fox (Farmajo) has religion is mistaken United Arab Emirates (UAE) is leading Arab League member in supporting and aiding the self-styled regime in Mogadishu, Somalia. UAE provides humanitarian aid, security training, and educational training...

Nairobi - Authorities in Puntland, a semi-autonomous region in Somalia, should immediately release journalist Ibrahim Obo Daud, also known as Suldan Godogodo, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Ibrahim was arrested on May 4 in Garowe, the administrative capital of Puntland, according to...

The United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia, Michael Keating, joins the country’s President Mohamed Abdullahi “Farmaajo” in calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities between ‘Somaliland’ and Puntland forces following recent fighting in the Tukaraq area of the Sool region. The United Nations urges...

Tributes have been paid to a Somali diplomat born in the Vale of Glamorgan, who has died at the age of 98. Abdulrahim Abby Farah was born in Barry in October 1919 and represented Somalia at the United Nations for 25 years. He served as the...

Heavy fighting broke out early Tuesday in a disputed part of Sool region, leaving at least four people dead, a security official told VOA. The fighting between Somaliland and Puntland erupted outside the village of Tukaraq. It lies between the main towns of Las Anod...

MOGADISHU, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Somalia has kicked off a constitutional review process ahead of "one-person, one-vote" elections scheduled for 2020. Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire, who launched the process, pledged financial and political support to the process to ensure the country gets a new...

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani today meets the visiting Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo to discuss the distinguished fraternal relations between the two brotherly countries besides Arab and international issues of common concern. This is the Somali president’s second official visit...