Somalia

For the third time since 2012, leaders from around the world met to talk about Somalia in London earlier this month. Somalia’s new president requested a lifting of the arms embargo on the country’s army, but Western countries worry those weapons could fall into the hands...

The first group of soldiers has completed a U.S. Army-led effort to train Somalia’s fledgling military in logistics, a stepping stone toward building a force that can sustain itself in a fight against Islamic militants. The 101st Airborne Division dispatched a team of logisticians to...

By Susan Svrluga One morning early in his freshman year at Cornell University, Ahmed Ahmed got a writing assignment back, flipped it over and stared at the letter in shock: C+. He went to his biology class, where the professor displayed a large graph showing the...

WASHINGTON, May 30, 2017—The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank today approved a US$50 million emergency project - Somalia Emergency Drought Response and Recovery Project (SEDRP, the Project) - to scale up the drought response and recovery effort in Somalia. Somalia is...

Police in Sweden are warning the public to avoid answering calls from unknown foreign numbers after apparent telephone scammers from Somalia targeted Swedish phones. A host of suspicious calls from numbers starting with the country code +252 were reported to the police between May 26th...

BY RACHEL FIRESTONE ON THU, 05/25/2017 CO-AUTHORS: TIM KELLY, AXEL RIFON Mobile payments herald financial opportunity in Somalia. But for whom? And for how long? If Somalia’s telecommunications sector is the locomotive driving the economy, mobile money is the highway, transferring value and extending access to...

Al-Shabab militants have attacked some 14 villages in southern Somalia, in an apparent attempt to disrupt a planned government offensive. Most of the villages that came under attack Tuesday are located near the towns of K50 and Murri, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A Somali police officer says a suicide bomber has blown himself up at a military checkpoint in northern Somalia's semiautonomous state of Puntland, killing at least four people. Col. Ahmed Hussein says the bomber approached soldiers at a checkpoint Tuesday and detonated...

International aid agencies are warning that six million Somalis need urgent help to avoid starvation. Somalia is now facing the most severe drought in living memory; half the population is going hungry. Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow reports from Mogadishu, Somalia. Reported by Mohammed Adow SOURCE:ALJAZEERA

ADDIS ABABA, May 19 (Xinhua) -- 39,390 refugees have arrived from January 1 to May 15 from the war torn nations of Somalia and South Sudan fleeing drought, conflict and food insecurity. The statement was made on Friday by the United Nations High Commission for...