Somalia

By: Staff Writer Somalia Prime minister Mohamed Hussein Roble has announced a new Cabinet consisting of a Deputy Prime minister and 26 ministeries with 4 female ministers. 15 of the ministers (over 50%) are from the outgoing cabinet. Mahdi Gulaid, Ministers of finance Abdirahman Dualeh...

The 90-minute session at AOW Virtual (7-8 October 2020) (https://bit.ly/341BxCA) was the first opportunity to hear directly from SPA CEO Ibrahim Ali Hussein, following the official licensing round announcement on August 4. There is no doubt that Somalia has become a significantly more attractive prospect since the signing of the country’s...

MOGADISHU, Somalia 18 October 2020 – Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and Somali Media Association (SOMA) vehemently condemn the raid on the prominent Radio Kulmiye journalist, Abdullahi Kulmiye Addow's home and his illegal detention by officers from the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) in Mogadishu...

 By: FAO 15 October 2020, Mogadishu– Despite some improvement in the overall food security and nutrition situation in Somalia, 2.1 million Somalis could face acute hunger in the absence of humanitarian assistance between now and December 2020, according to the latest Post-Gu joint seasonal assessment...

Somalia's spy agency, the National Intelligence and Security Agency (Nisa), says it has seized 79 tonnes of sulphuric acid smuggled into the country for use by al-Shabab militants to make explosives. "We have seized 79 tonnes of sulphuric acid and arrested a number of people...

Turkey congratulated Somalia on Monday on the occasion of National Flag Day, the Turkish Embassy in Somalia wrote on Twitter account. "Turkey wholeheartedly congratulates Somalia on the occasion of the 66th anniversary of the National Flag Day . We firmly believe that it will continue to...

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,...

By: Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia — The foreign ministers of Cuba and Somalia say two Cuban doctors held hostage by the al-Shabab extremist group in Somalia have not been freed. Somalia’s foreign minister Ahmed Isse Awad told local media that “they’ve not yet been released but...

By: Staff writer Somalia Minister of Ports and Marine Transport, Mariam Aweis Jama, signed a 14-year Concession Agreement with the Albayrak Group from Turkey for the Rehabilitation and Operation of the Port of Mogadishu on behalf of the Federal Government of Somalia. According to Sonna, In...

The al-Qaida-linked extremist group al-Shabab has released two Cuban doctors who were kidnapped in Kenya and held for a year and a half in neighboring Somalia, officials say. A senior Somali intelligence official told The Associated Press that the doctors were released over the weekend...