Somalia

By: The Star Somalia has maintained that the maritime dispute with Kenya will be decided by the International Court of Justice. This emerged on Sunday during Foreign Affairs CS Raychelle Omamo's maiden official visit to the country. In a statement after their bilateral meeting, Somalia PM...

FAO calls for urgent funding to control further breeding 18 December 2019, Mogadishu– Somalia faces the worst Desert Locust outbreak in over 25 years, according to the emergency update issued today by the country office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...

By: Newyork Times WASHINGTON — U.S. Special Operations commandos killed a senior leader of the Islamic State militant group in an early-morning helicopter raid in a remote area of northern Somalia on Thursday, U.S. officials said.

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...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime is flexing its diplomatic muscles to hunt its opponents wherever they are in the world By:Adnan R. Khan Early last August, a group of Somali community leaders was invited to the Turkish consulate in Toronto to meet with some Turkish parliamentarians. The...

Press Statement Mark C. Toner Acting SpokespersonDOS Seal Washington, DC February 8, 2017DOS Seal The United States congratulates the people of Somalia on the successful conclusion of their national electoral process. We congratulate Mr. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed on his selection as the next President of the Federal Government of Somalia...

By Estelle Shirbon | LONDON Somalia's government and its foreign backers on Thursday signed a security pact which they presented as a road map toward building a functional national army capable of taking on the fight against al Shabaab militants. The al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group...

The European Union (EU) has approved a EUR 20.5 million budget support payment to the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS), under the EU’s Somalia State and Resilience Building Contract and Support to Debt Relief Action (SRBC). This coincides with the FGS and EU launching...

Until recently, when Somalia made worldwide headlines, it was usually because of piracy. Somali pirates have become infamous for hijacking ships, holding their crew and cargo hostage, and collecting millions in ransom as they disrupt international shipping and trade. Somalia's  The country has been in...

By Michael Gerson Opinion writer July 17 at 7:33 PM BAIDOA, Somalia This town was liberated from the control of al-Shabab (an Islamist insurgent group) five years ago. But “liberated” is a relative term. The security bubble created by the presence of U.N. and Ethiopian military...