Somalia

The authorities in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region must immediately halt plans to execute two boys sentenced to death by a military tribunal in February for their alleged role in the armed group Al-Shabaab’s killing of three senior administration officials, said Amnesty International. The organization has...

By:Staff writer At least six people have been killed in an al-Shabaab attack on Mogadishu airport. Police spokesman Aden Hassan told VOA Somali that six people, five of them foreigners, included an AMISOM soldier. Earlier in the day, state TV had said security forces were battling...

By: REUTERS  Egypt's president said on Sunday it will not allow any threat to Somalia, after Ethiopia said it would consider recognising an independence claim by Somaliland in a deal that would give it access to a...

BY:HOL Mogadishu-The Somali government has recalled its ambassador to UN Human Rights Council on Friday, barely a day after Somalia abstained to vote on a resolution condemning the Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights. Ambassador Faduma Abdullahi Mohamed was summoned to Mogadishu by the Somali Foreign...

On the occasion of the International Day of Children’s Rights, UNICEF awarded personalities and organisations in Greece that promote children’s rights as well as schools collaborating in a Greek Education Ministry educational programme promoting the rights of children. Among the award winners is thirteen year...

Ahmed Hussein’s perfectly white teeth seem too big for his mouth; his upper arms look like they belong to a little boy, not a 23-year-old man. Propped up on an iron bed, Hussein laughs and says he always was slim. But he is clearly malnourished....

  Horndiplomat-Mogadishu-Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud will be completing his fourth year in power next September. In his term, Somalia shared the world many political and security turbulences. His Excellency had fought fierce political battles, and survived many parliamentary attempts to oust him. In a relatively short...

By:Agence France-Presse At 19 years old, Asha Mohamed is divorced and drives a taxi in Somalia, defying conventions to support her family in one of the world's most conservative and dangerous countries. For the past year, the young woman has crisscrossed the capital Mogadishu in her...

By: Staff Reporter The UK government has announced a new ambassador to Somalia to replace the outgoing envoy Mr. Ben Fender OBE.. According to a statement from the Foreign Office, Ms Kate Foster OBE has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Somalia in...

By: staff Writer Former President of Somalia Sheikh Sharif Ahmed has asked Somalia's federal government to agree to dialogue and iron out contentious issues. At a press conference in his residence in his return from a working trip, Mr Ahmed who is also Chairman of the...