Somalia

U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Richard H. Riley to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Somalia. Riley will serve as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, replacing Larry André, who has served as the U.S. Ambassador to...

By:Zakariye Ahmed, Horn diplomat correspondent More than 3,000 militants from Al-Shabaab were killed and other 3,700 were wounded in the last six months of military operations against Al-Shabaab militant group, Somalia's government says in a statement on Saturday.

By: XINHUA Flash floods caused by heavy rains have killed at least 14 people, displaced thousands more, and destroyed property in southern Somalia, the United Nations humanitarian agency said. The UN Office for...

By AFP Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has said the country would organise the next national elections by universal suffrage, a departure from an indirect voting system that has often triggered crises. The fragile...

By: FAO Rome - While humanitarian assistance has prevented worse outcomes and staved off famine in parts of Somalia thus far, millions of rural Somali people continue to face unprecedented challenges to their food security. Reversing the alarming...

By: Staff writer Somalia on Sunday said the federal government and the Somali people donated over $4.8 million to earthquake victims in Türkiye. Somalia Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre along with Speaker...

By: Business Daily A Mogadishu-based lender that has been in operation for under 10 years is set to acquire a controlling stake in First Community Bank (FCB), whose capital is below the required minimum.

By: Harun Maruf VOA The three neighboring countries of Somalia are to send new troops to support Somali forces against al-Shabab in the next phase of military operations, the national security adviser for the Somali president said.

BY: NEWYORK TIMES  The promise and perils of America’s counterterrorism campaign were on full display at a remote training base in central Somalia. It was graduation day for 346 recruits who would join...

By: AFP UN chief Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that 2022 was the deadliest year for civilians in Somalia since 2017, largely because of an increase in mass-casualty attacks by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group.