Somalia

Horndiplomat- Mary Harper Africa Editor at the BBC World Service take interview wih Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım about Somalia and Africa.  

By KEVIN J. KELLEY More by this Author New York The State Department's Africa Bureau is failing to ensure that US funding for the Somali government is not diverted to Al-Shabaab terror group, the department's watchdog unit warned on Monday. “The bureau had not established policy and procedures...

Opinion: Weeks after hundreds were killed, another attack struck Mogadishu—stories of death that have become achingly familiar for Somali-Canadians By:Hawa Y. Mire Hawa Y. Mire is a diasporic Somali storyteller, writer, and strategist with more than a decade of experience in high-impact community-based initiatives, as well as the...

By:Michael Cohen Funding shortage hampers fight against militants, analyst says Conflict fuels humanitarian crisis in Horn of Africa nation Three deadly bomb attacks in Somalia’s capital this month have highlighted the failings of a decade-long international effort to quash an al-Qaeda-linked insurgency in one of...

Dozens of journalists have been slain in Somalia over the past decade, but none of their killers have been brought to justice By Jesselyn Cook For the third year in a row, Somalia has ranked as the world’s leading country where slain journalists’ deaths go unpunished. Over...

Dr. Fozia Abikar Nour, the Federal Government of Somalia Health minister, speaking to the Voice of America’s Somali Service, Sunday, revealed that Dahabshiil Group was the first to positively and substantively respond to the myriad health needs starkly highlighted by the huge blast in...

Dismissals ordered after security forces end night-long siege by al-Shabab at a hotel in the capital Mogadishu. Somalia's government has removed the country's chief of intelligence and police commissioner, a day after an attack in the capital, Mogadishu, claimed more than 25 lives. The dismissal of...

A suicide car bomb exploded outside a popular hotel in Somalia’s capital on Saturday, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 16, while gunfire could be heard inside, police said. A second blast was heard in the area minutes later. Captain Mohamed Hussein...

By ABDILLAHI MOHAMED SANBALOOSHEOCT. 26, 2017 MOGADISHU, Somalia — On Oct. 14, a truck carrying about two tons of homemade explosives blew up near Zoobe Junction, one of the busiest streets in Mogadishu, the Somali capital. The blast sent shock waves for miles. More than 400...

China will continue to participate in escort missions in the Gulf of Aden and waters off Somalia to protect the international lane, a spokesperson said on Friday. The comment by Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang came as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres praised China in a...