Somalia

by Patrick Gathara When Kenyan troops crossed the proverbial Rubicon and entered Somalia nearly six years ago, it caught almost everyone by surprise. It was Kenya’s first sustained and significant foray into its troubled neighbors territory and ran counter to the country’s historic pacifism -at...

By:ANADOLU ANKARA - Turkey is becoming a favorite destination for many Somali youth, to pursue higher education in order to realize their dreams. Muhammed Ahmed, who graduated in medicine from Antalya University located in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya, had fancied to study in Turkey...

 Constructive engagement between the executive and legislative branches is  the viable option to prevent undoing progress in Somalia , writes Liban Ahmad The Somali Federal Parliament Speaker, Mohamed Mursal, issued a statement to the effect that the impeachment motion against President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo still stands. The Speaker's intervention...

By:Horndiplomat , AFP Somalia president Hassan Shiekh Mohamud appoints Mr. Hamza Abdi Barre as the Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia. “The president wishes the new PM utmost success as he leads the government’s ambitious reform agenda and calls on Somali people to render him their...

By: MoDUALE Djibouti on Wednesday reported 229 new COVID__19 cases and four more deaths, taking the total number of cases in the country to 2,697. Djibouti has conducted a total of 24,129 COVID-19 tests so far with 18 deaths and 1185 recoveries. According to the Djibouti Health...

By KEVIN J. KELLEY More by this Author International donors are responding adequately to the food crisis in Somalia but are falling far short of supplying required amounts of aid in South Sudan, a United Nations humanitarian aid director has said. “The needs are escalating, but the...

By:Liban Ahmed President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo criticised federal members states for trying to carve out a space to formulate foreign policy. " The Federal Government retains powers to formulate foreign policy because it is charge of the National...

Horndiplomat-Somalia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says UN envoy to the country Nicholas Haysom “not welcome and cannot operate ” in the country. The Ministry accused him of “violating protocols” and “deliberately interfering” in Somalia affairs. https://twitter.com/MofaSomalia/status/1080166054800883714 The move by the Somali government followed after Mr Nicholas Haysom...

The United States is considering a sharp reduction in its special forces operations in Somalia and other African countries, the New York Times reported on Monday. As many as half of the US counter-terrorism troops based on the continent could be withdrawn over the next three years,...

James Swan arrived in Mogadishu today to take up his duties as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia and Head of Mission for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia. The career diplomat, who is a national of the United States,...