Somalia

BY:EASTAFRICAN The US government has officially lifted sanctions on a Somali group of companies that had been accused of sponsoring terrorism activities. Al-Barakat, a conglomeration of firms that dealt in informal money transfer services known as hawala and also dealt in logistics, telecom and internet services,...

By:Xinhua United Nations partners are taking a different approach to famine prevention in Somalia: focusing on collaboration with local authorities and communities in at-risk areas, UN humanitarians said on Friday. "In 2016/2017, a similar shift coupled with timely and scaled up humanitarian assistance averted famine in...

By: Anadolu agency X-ray machine donated to Galgaduud State Hospital in central Somalia which serves more than 500,000 people Turkey’s state-run aid agency on Wednesday announced that it donated an X-ray machine to the Galgaduud State Hospital located in central Somalia which serves more than 500,000...

Organization (FAO) recently declared that millions of citizens in the Horn of Africa face food shortages. Owing to a persistent lack of rainfall between October and December, as many as 12 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are in dire need of food...

By: FAO A tropical storm named KYARR has been developing in the northern Indian Ocean and is expected to affect most parts of Puntland and Somaliland in the next 4 to 5 days. The storm is expected to affect the coastal areas of Puntland in the...

Somalia's political leaders on Tuesday called on aid agencies, the international community and donor countries to respond to what they described as “a very alarming drought situation." During an emergency meeting in Mogadishu, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said the drought situation in Somalia in...

The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has come in support of the talks between Somalia and Somaliland initiated by the United States and hosted by Djibouti. At the 36th IGAD Summit attended online by the leaders of member states, development on the talks was discussed...

By Mary HarperAfrica editor, BBC World Service News This Thursday, the great and the good will descend on London to discuss Somalia, a country that has topped the Fragile States Indexfor eight of the past 10 years. The London Somalia Conference, co-chaired by the UK, Somalia...

The Somali Federal Parliament would do well to discuss why the previous government of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud rescinded the TFG-ARS agreement, argues Liban Ahmad Many Somalis are asking questions about the role of Ethiopian troops in the...

Nairobi (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls on all parties to the conflict in Galkayo to take all precautionary measures to protect civilians, health care staff and medical facilities. "It's vital that the civilians caught in conflict – families, mothers,...