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...

By:Horndiplomat staff Somalia on Wednesday confirmed 105 new positive Covid-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 6,549. 2 more people were reported to have recovered from the disease, hence the total number of recoveries is now at 3,783. Three people have...

By ELIUD KIBII, The Star The election standoff in Gedo region seems far from over after Jubaland accused Somalia President Mohamed Farmaajo of planning to deploy foreign troops. This comes barely three days after reports of a closed door security meeting in Dolow centre by Ethiopian...

By: Telegraph This week, after two years of devastating drought and soaring food prices, the UN warned that without action, famine will hit Somalia within the next few weeks. With half a million children...

A STAFFORD-BORN member of the Foreign Office will move to the troubled country of Somalia soon to become the UK Ambassador. David Concar, originally from Little Haywood, will head out in mid-January to live in the country, which has been the target of frequent terrorist...

By:Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban  After over three weeks outage, Somalia has its internet connection restored, journalists in the Horn of Africa nation are reporting. Reports, however, indicate that it is not a full restoration given that places in South and Central Somalia all have connection. Other...

By : Zakeriye ahmed Horndiplomat Correspondent The National Military Court of Somalia executed Ahmed Abdullahi Abdi for killing the late minister of Public Works and Reconstruction, Abbas Abdullahi Siraji, during Prime Minister Hassan Ali Kheyre's tenure on...

Horndiplomat-(Press Release)Rushanara will be holding a press conference at 12:00 PM on 21st November at 347 Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9RA. With around five million people in Somalia in need of humanitarian aid, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs,...

Federation of Somali Journalists (FESOJ) welcomes the appointment of a special prosecutor for crimes against journalists in Somalia on Tuesday 8 ,September by Somalia's Attorney General Dr Suleiman Mohamed Mohamud which could be an initial solution to the high levels of impunity for crimes...

By: MoDuale Abukar Dahir Osman Baale, Somalia's top diplomat at the UN, will become one of the vice presidents of its General Assembly after the East African country was voted to the position on Monday. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, president of the current 74th session of the UNGA,...