Somalia

By: Staff writer Somalia president Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud has tested positive for Covid-19. He tweeted on Friday: “My fellow citizens, I would like to inform you that today I tested positive for COVID-19. So far, I have no symptoms but I will continue to self-isolate and...

By: Ottawa Citizen TORONTO — Family and friends of Hodan Nalayeh are remembering the Somali-Canadian journalist killed in a terrorist attack this week for her work redefining the global Somali identity through positive storytelling. Nalayeh, a broadcast reporter born in Somalia with roots in Edmonton and...

By: Somtribune The Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C. lobby group on contract with the Somalia government, supported by a unionist group calling itself the United Somali Alliance, accelerate opposition to H.R. 7170 and other proposed legislations that call for an increased...

PUBLISHED DEC 9, 2022 5:48 PM BY THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE In yet another move to expand its influence in Somalia, the DP World and Somalia’s State Government of Puntland have signed an agreement for the expansion and upgrade...

FAO handed over a new inshore fishing vessel to the Jubaland Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources after a groundbreaking delivery trip from Bosaso to Kismayo, a voyage of over 1,000 Nautical miles.  Three of these new vessels, designed by the Food and Agriculture Organization...

By Katharine Houreld DOLLOW, Somalia (Reuters) -Each morning in this Somali border town, 11-year-old Bashir Nur Salat plots his day's mission behind a crooked wire fence. Armed with only a friend's yellow school shirt, a borrowed book and toothy grin, he eyes his prize through...

TRT World spoke with Olgan Bekar, Turkey’s ambassador to Somalia, about a new military training camp in Mogadishu – and the ongoing Turkish-Somali lovefest. Ankara and Mogadishu have long been friends. And a new military training camp might strengthen ties – or cause others to...

By: Reuters Al Shabaab militants killed at least 18 civilians and destroyed trucks laden with relief food in an overnight attack in Somalia's central region, residents and a state news agency said on Saturday.

By JEFFREY GETTLEMANMAY 13, 2017 Nairobi — During my first trip to Mogadishu, Somalia, on my last night in town, as I was packing up my things, someone unexpectedly knocked on my door. It was the hotel manager, and at first I thought he had come...

By: Somaliland Standard Somaliland government reaffirmed its commitment to revive and resume stalled talks with Somalia. In a press statement, Musa Bihi Abdi, the Head of State of Somaliland said during a high level meetings with representatives...