Somalia

With roughly one of three Somalian soldiers trained by the Turkish Armed Forces, military cooperation in this area between the two countries is of critical importance, Turkey's ambassador to the East African nation said Tuesday. In an interview, Mehmet Yilmaz told Anadolu Agency that the...

Security Council Press Statement on Somalia: On 24 January, the members of the Security Council were briefed by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, Mr. Michael Keating and the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Ambassador Madeira on the...

Horndiplomat-On January 1, Somalia has expelled the UN's top envoy, Nicholas Haysom, accusing him of "shaming" the world body by acting like the country's ruler. The Somalia Foreign minister Ahmed Isse Awad told BBC Africa said the UN envoy was "no longer welcome" in the country. "Mr...

The First and Second Deputy Speakers of the Somali Parliament Abdiweli Muuddey and Mahad Awad rejected the decision of the Parliamentary Speaker, Mohamed Mursal, to consider the impeachment motion tabled by 92 MPs in Mogadishu. In...

Somalia President Mohamed Abdilahi Farmaajo appointed Mohamed Hussein Roble as the country's new prime minister early Friday, hours after regional leaders agreed on a revised model for presidential and parliamentary elections. The Somalia presidency made the announcement on Twitter. The president wishes him to perform his...

The Chairman of the Upper House, Abdi Hashi Abdullahi, yesterday appointed an interim committee tasked with solving the rift between the presidency and the Speaker of the Somali Parliament. Made up of ten members, Abdirizak Jurrile, a Senator, is the Chairman of the Committee. Mr...

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: UNSOM Mogadishu –  The United Nations in Somalia confirms today that an international employee of a private company operating under contract to the UN has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The individual is employed by a private commercial firm operating within Aden...

Asmara, 06 September 2018- Foreign Ministers of Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia have travelled to Djibouti. The joint high-level committee is composed of Mr. Osman Saleh, Foreign Minister of Eritrea, Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu, Foreign Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Foreign Minister...

Somali ambassador to Kenya Mohamoud Ahmed Nur alias Tarzan arrived at Mogadishu’s Aden Abdulle International Airport early Sunday, media reported. Mr Nur was expelled by the Kenya government, which also recalled its own envoy to Somalia, Lt-Gen (Rtd) Lucas Tumbo. The ambassador arrived at Mogadishu’s seafront...