Somalia

By Bridget Galton The extraordinary story of a Somali migrant who risked death to return as Mayor of war-torn Mogadishu is compellingly told in a book by BBC correspondent Andrew Harding. The Mayor of Mogadishu (Hurst, £20) follows the redemptive arc of a man – dubbed...

UK’S NEW AMBASSADOR TO SOMALIA MIKE NITHAVRIANAKIS PRESENTS HIS CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT HASSAN SHEIKH MOHAMUD Mike Nithavrianakis has today presented his diplomatic credentials to President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who accepted him as the UK’s new Ambassador to...

Drought and hunger are afflicting Somalia, but no one knows because the media is not talking about it -- that's the message that propelled the hashtag #TurkishAirlinesHelpSomalia to the top of Twitter's global trends Wednesday night. Thanks to several celebrity tweets, the call to spread awareness of...

LONDON, May 11, 2017- On the sidelines of the UK-hosted Conference on Somalia, the Somali government and high level business actors endorsed a Public-Private Cooperation Agreement to Accelerate Somalia’s Economic Recovery. The event was supported by the World Bank Group and the British Department...

The conference on Somalia held in London Thursday was replete with handshakes and backslapping as the U.K. and others praised the new Somali government and pledged to do all they could to help defeat terrorism in the Horn of Africa country. Yet amid the genial...

At least 14 people, mostly civilians, were killed Friday as soldiers clashed over food aid in drought-ravaged Somalia's southwestern city of Baidoa. The fighting broke out at a distribution site after some soldiers tried to steal food sacks meant for refugees and other soldiers guarding...

Abbas Abdullahi, public works and reconstruction minister, dies after bodyguards for auditor general shoot at his car. Bodyguards for Somalia's auditor general shot dead a government minister in an apparent accident near the presidential palace in Mogadishu on Wednesday evening, police said. Auditor general Nur Farah's bodyguards opened...

By: Business Daily Lawyers are emerging the biggest beneficiaries in the maritime boundary fight between Kenya and Somalia with revelations that the Treasury paid Sh300 million to Nairobi’s legal team handling the dispute. Revised estimates for the current year show that the budget for Kenya’s legal...

Somalia is struggling to meet the 30 per cent quota for women in the ongoing elections as local and security agencies remain vigilant to ward off threats by the Al-Shabaab to disrupt the polls. So far, both the elections of the Upper House or the...

On the occasion of the International Day of Children’s Rights, UNICEF awarded personalities and organisations in Greece that promote children’s rights as well as schools collaborating in a Greek Education Ministry educational programme promoting the rights of children. Among the award winners is thirteen year...