Somalia

By Bashir Goth, Special to Gulf News Somalis see no reason to trust this week’s conference in London after similar initiatives in the past did little to address the core issues. n a deja vu situation that does not excite many Somalis, the United Kingdom announced...

On Monday 8 May 2017 the European Union’s Ambassador to Somalia, Ms Veronique Lorenzo, hosted the Somali Prime Minister, H.E. Hasan Ali Khaire and State Minister, Abdullahi Hamud, on board EU NAVFOR’s Spanish flagship, ESPS Galicia.   Ms Lorenzo was accompanied by EU NAVFOR’s Operation Commander,...

Horndiplomat-Somaliland government warns Agendas tabled in London Somalia's Conference  that Lifted the arms embargo in Somalia. The Uk Government released official statement about the conference On 11 May 2017, the statement said Uk will host a major international conference in London, to accelerate progress on...

by:Felix Njini & Nizar Manek U.S. sends troops to train, approves expanded military role Nation at war for three decades is battling al-Qaeda affiliate Almost a quarter century since the U.S. withdrew from Somalia after militiamen shot down two Black Hawk helicopters and special forces...

WASHINGTON —  Al-Shabab insurgents in Somalia have beheaded two government soldiers they captured on Saturday near the town of Mahaday, 35 kilometers north of Jowhar, and the provincial capital of Middle Shabelle region, officials and witnesses told VOA. The head of the Somali National Army 30th...

DUBAI, 6th May, 2017 (WAM) -- Dar Al Ber Society has dispatched its second relief convoy to drought and famine-hit Somalia. Unlike the first campaign that was mostly focusing on securing necessary foodstuff assistance, a medical team has been sent to run a field hospital...

Auditor general fired after security detail gunned down cabinet minister in case of mistaken identity By Mohammed Dhaysane and Addis Getachew MOGADISHU, Somalia  Somalia’s Auditor General Nur Farah was fired on Thursday after his security guards shot dead a cabinet minister. Abbas Siraj, the 31-year-old Minister of Public...

By Missy Ryan An American service member was killed during an operation against al-Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia, the U.S. military said Friday. The incident, which took place Thursday 40 miles west of the capital Mogadishu in an area called Barii, was a part of an intensified American effort to...

Feliz Solomon 3:54 AM ET Abas Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji, Somalia’s 31-year-old public works minister and a rising star of the country’s politics, has been shot dead by security forces who officials say mistook him for a militant. The youngest person ever to be elected to Somalia’s parliament,...

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...