Somalia

Switzerland - The UN Migration Agency (IOM) is deeply concerned by the situation of approximately 260 Somali and Ethiopian migrants and refugees, including many children, held captive by smugglers and/or criminal gangs in Libya. In a video posted on Facebook on 9 June, hundreds...

The United Nations and foreign powers claim they are dedicated to building up the Somali National Army. Instead, they have become complicit in its dysfunction. BY AMANDA SPERBERAUGUST 7, 2018, 1:07 PM MOGADISHU, Somalia—Last week, the U.N. Security Council unanimously agreed to extend the African Union Mission in Somalia...

By: ANADOLU AGENCY Türkiye and Somalia’s defense ministers signed a defense and economic cooperation agreement Thursday to enhance bilateral relations and the stability of the region. Yasar Guler welcomed his Somali counterpart Abdulkadir...

By : Zakeriye ahmed Horndiplomat Correspondent After over 20 hours, Somalia's government forces ended Mogadishu's key hotel of Villa Rays' siege. The stormed hotel was located in Mogadishu's highly protected government areas, not far...

Discussion Forum on Debt Relief Communiqué The high-level debt relief discussion forum took place at the University of Hargeisa on 30th of December 2019, organised by Somaliland Non-State Actors Forum, and attended by representatives from the government and the civil society, including senior government officials, academics,...

By: Staff Writer Somalia Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mr. Mohamed Abdirizak Mohamud Abubakar, met on Monday in his office at the ministry in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Ambassador of to Kenya, Mr. Mohamud Ahmed Nur "Tarsan", with the intention of consulting on...

A Somali civil aviation official says at least 15 Qatar Airways flights have used Somalia’s airspace since Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations moved to sever links with the Gulf nation. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to...

By: Albert University U of A experts play key role in identifying and naming two substances never before seen on Earth. A team of researchers has discovered at least two new minerals that have never...

Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has called for unity talks between his country and Somaliland. Farmajo said during Somalia’s 57th independence anniversary speech on Saturday that the government is committed to relaunch talks with Somaliland as soon as possible, Somali news agency SONNA reported. He expressed...

Mogadishu has suffered more than two decades of war, and many of its young people were born and raised alongside violence and bloodshed. Children with disabilities, however, face added risks of abandonment, neglect and lack of equal access to basic human necessities. But Ismail Rage, 22,...