Somalia

HORNDIPLOMAT-The United Nations Development Programme Administrator, Helen Clark, has yesterday payed a historical visit to Somalia, becoming the first UNDP administrator to visit the east African country.According Undp Press Statement-Horndiplomat Reports. During her visit, Helen Clark met with top government officials including president Hassan Sheik...

Somalia is due to hold elections in October and November that are seen as a vital stepping stone in restoring governance and rebuilding a state plagued by war and insurgency for 25 years. Twelve years after the formation of its current transitional federal government, and...

By: THE NATIONAL Somali pirates with links to Al Qaeda have released the Bangladesh-flagged cargo ship MV Abdullah and its 23 crew members after receiving a ransom payment of $5 million, locals and officials in Somalia said on Sunday. The payment followed...

Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged to increase Britain's support for Somalia in the fight against militant group Al-Shabaab. In her maiden speech to the General Assembly in New York, Mrs May said that Britain had played a "leading role" in the fight against the...

By Yomi Kazeem With militant group al-Shabaab waging war and the government suppressing press freedom, being a journalist in Somalia is a difficult, and even life-threatening, job. The Committee to Project Journalists’ 2016 Global Impunity Index “spotlights countries where journalists are slain and the killers go...

By:Laetitia Bader Researcher, Africa DivisionLaetitiaBader Journalists Live in Fear While Government Promises to Investigate Ring Hollow Tuesday was yet another bittersweet day for journalists in Somalia. The National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) released Abdi Adan Guled, the editor of  Xog-Ogaal, one of the country’s oldest newspapers....

By: UNSOM A new national action plan for enhancing and empowering Somali women in their country’s maritime sector was launched today at a high-level event bringing together senior government officials and representatives from civil society and the international...

Somalia's Foreign Minister Abdisalam Omer says that as a result of successful joint operations by the Somali military and the African Union's peacekeeping force "we have militarily defeated the evil that is al-Shabab." He said the al-Shabab extremist group controls less than 10 percent of...

Press Statement Mark C. Toner Acting SpokespersonDOS Seal Washington, DC February 8, 2017DOS Seal The United States congratulates the people of Somalia on the successful conclusion of their national electoral process. We congratulate Mr. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed on his selection as the next President of the Federal Government of Somalia...

By:AFP Mogadishu (AFP) - Somalia has postponed elections that were due to start on Sunday after months of delays in the deeply unstable Horn of Africa country, officials told AFP. Indirect parliamentary and presidential polls were due to open on July 25 with four days of...