Somalia

By: Staff Writer Somaliland Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) on Wednesday calls Mogadishu's position "mystifying" and warns it to "refrain from groundless and uninformed statements aimed to mislead the world." The following statement was issued today by the Somaliland Foreign Affairs Ministry. The Government of the Republic...

President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo has spoken out for the first time about the rendition of former ONLF commander, Colonel Abdikarim Musa Qalbi-Dhagah. Qalbi Dhagah was handed over to Ethiopia on August 28, 2017, following a raid by Somali force on his hotel in Galkayo, central...

BY: DAILY SABAH a military plane carrying a team of medical experts bringing civilians injured in a recent terrorist attack in Mogadishu arrived in the Turkish capital in Ankara on Tuesday. The National Medical Rescue Team of nine people traveled on an A400M-type military transport aircraft...

A tweet by Martin Plaut,  the former BBC Africa editor who is now Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Commonwealth Studies,  left Somalis in the Twittersphere wondering why a President who had campaigned on anti–Ethiopian interference in Somali politics might give Ethiopia a base in the Southern...

Pirates who seized an Indian cargo dhow with 11 crew members in waters off the Somali coast have taken the vessel to El Hur, near the port of Hobyo in Somalia's semi-autonomous Galmudug state, a pirate leader told Reuters on Tuesday. Aw Kombe also said...

Horndiplomat-Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi has pardoned 14 prisoners of war captured from Puntland.-Horndiplomat reports "Considering the Regional Peace and Security, I have granted a Presidential Pardon to all 14 Puntland Prisoners of War captured by Somaliland National Army during Tukaraq conflict. "President Muse Bihi...

By: Staff writer Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud on Sunday made his first visit abroad since assuming office last month to the United Arab Emirates, after receiving an official invitation from his counterpart Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed. The two-day work visit will focus on strengthening the...

Horndiplomat- Germany commits further € 2.7 Million in support of first universal suffrage elections to be held in #Somalia after five decades. The following statement was issued today by the German Embassy in Somalia The German Federal Foreign Office (GFFO) has made available € 2.7 million...

By: MOHAMED ABDALLE Somalia is heading to the indirect election, while the country plagued and divided by protracted social conflict, and also the current situation has been heated up by seismic waves of the electoral contest between Federal Government and the Federal Member States. Furthermore,...

While the COVID-19 was morphing from an epidemic into a catastrophic global pandemic, captivating the global news, a diplomatic confrontation is unfolding in the horn of Africa between Somalia and Kenya. On 2 March, fighting between the Somali National Army (SNA) and the regional Jubaland...