Somalia

GENEVA —  The U.N. refugee agency reports that Horn of Africa asylum seekers and migrants arriving in Yemen are being detained under horrific conditions by different armed groups and criminals profiting from the situation. The agency says it is following the cases of some 100 Somali...

Horndiplomat-The reports from Mogadishu the capital of Somalia confirmed the UAE government imposing new immigration restriction on Somalis. The UAE government is exploring imposing new immigration restrictions on Somalis unless relations improve, a source tells VOA program Investigative Dossier. UAE could refuse to issue residence permits...

The new funding will be used to monitor grave child rights violations, as well as provide support to 1,250 survivors of abuse, and to children who were previously involved with armed groups MOGADISHU, Somalia, April 18, 2018/ -- The Government of Japan is providing generous...

ABU DHABI, 15th April, 2018 (WAM) -- The UAE has decided to disband its military training programme in Somalia which started in 2014 to build the capabilities of the Somali army. The decision comes in response to Somali security forces' seizure of a UAE-registered civil...

Somali officials at Bosaso airport insisted that 'heavy bags' be checked, resulting in hours-long row, local media say. Somali officials are said to have stopped a plane from the United Arab Emirates from leaving the country after Emirati military trainers on board refused to hand over their...

Change always breeds optimism and it was no different when Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed was elected as president of Somalia in February last year. Expectations were sky-high as the new president — universally known by his nickname, Farmajo — took office. Farmajo himself did little to...

A program initiated in 2014 for the UAE to pay and train Somali soldiers has been disbanded by the government Somalia disbanded a program by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to pay and train some of its troops as relations soured following the seizure of...

Somalia’s Defence Minister Mohamed Mursal Sheikh Abdirahman has announced that the country will take full charge of its SNA training and salaries and end an earlier military cooperation agreement with UAE. “Surely it is the government of Somalia to take the rights and responsibility of...

MoFa expressed its displeasure with how the Emirati contingent was treated. The UAE has condemned the seizure of its civilian aircraft carrying millions of dollars by authorities in Somalia on Sunday. In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, said that the jet...

The money, found in three unmarked bags, was seized from a Royal Jet airlines carrier at Mogadishu airport. Somalia's government says it has seized several bags of money worth almost $10m from a plane that arrived at Mogadishu airport from the United Arab Emirates capital...