Somalia

WASHINGTON, December 13, 2023 — The Executive Boards of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) have approved the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative Completion Point for Somalia, which provides total debt service savings for the country of US$4.5 billion. Following...

BY: IGAD The 41st Extraordinary Assembly of the IGAD Heads of State and Government was held on Saturday, 9th December 2023, in Djibouti, Republic of Djibouti, on the situation in Sudan and was chaired by H.E. Ismail Omar Guelleh, President...

Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, met with a delegation of Turkish military experts and officers on Friday at his office in Villa Somalia, the presidential palace in Mogadishu. according Somalia news agency sonna , The meeting was...

The British Embassy Mogadishu announces almost $7 million to support the humanitarian response to El Niño in Somalia. British Embassy Mogadishu announces £5.5 million of humanitarian funding for El Niño response in Somalia.

UK funding to Gaashaan project will support survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Somalia. £15 million of funding announced during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence will empower communities and tackle...

By: BBC AFRICA The death toll from Somalia's ongoing floods has risen to 110, the UN humanitarian agency UN OCHA said on Sunday. More than one million people have been displaced and 2.4 million...

By: AA Türkiye on Saturday welcomed a decision by the UN Security Council to lift an arms embargo on Somalia. "We wish this historic decision will usher a new era which will sow...

 By: Staff writer Somaliland has expressed "deep concerns" over the United Nations Security Council's decision to lift the arms embargo on Somalia, citing significant risks to regional security The following statement was issued today...

By: UN NEWS Recognizing the benchmarks reached on implementing the security transition, the Somalia Transition Plan and the national security architecture, the Security Council today unanimously adopted a resolution lifting the arms embargo on the Federal Government of Somalia.

By: THE VICE When the U.S. Navy received a distress call Sunday from an Israeli-owned commercial ship off the coast of Yemen, the assumption was, according to U.S. and European intelligence officials, that Iranian-backed Houthi militants had targeted the...