Somalia

Mogadishu – The following international partners* (listed below) are concerned about the recent events in South West State. We extend our deepest condolences for the death of the South West State assembly member and others who have died in the violence in Baidoa. We deplore...

Co-opting rather than reconciling  with Al-shabaab is the policy successive Somali governments have adopted, writes Liban Ahmad The  arrest of Southwest State Presidential candidate Mukhtar Robow in Baydhaba city has divided Somalis into two groups. One group...

The Chairman of the Upper House, Abdi Hashi Abdullahi, yesterday appointed an interim committee tasked with solving the rift between the presidency and the Speaker of the Somali Parliament. Made up of ten members, Abdirizak Jurrile, a Senator, is the Chairman of the Committee. Mr...

MOGADISHU, Dec. 14, 2018: President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo, President of the Federal Republic of Somalia and President Isaias Afwerki, President of the State of Eritrea, held a two-day consultation meeting in Mogadishu, Somalia on December 13th-14th 2018. The two Presidents held bilateral discussions at...

The Prime Minister and Minister of Interior of Qatar Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani and the Prime Minister of Somalia Hassan Ali Khayre witnessed the signing of a number of agreements and memoranda of understanding (MoUs) between the governments of Qatar and...

 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...

Horndiplomat-Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki arrives in Mogadishu for a working visit to the Federal Republic of Somalia. President Isaias's  historic visit is part and parcel of the consultative Tripartite Summits of the Heads of State and Government of Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. The two Head of...

By: Mohamed A. Mohamoud (Barawani) I have been reading some reports on changes in the Horn of Africa by one commentator and I found myself confronted by what US President Trump has now famously branded as “fake news.” Rather than taking the time to consult deeply with...

Representatives of the European Union European External Action Service visited the Mission and its main Somali interlocutors from 3-11 December 2018.The EU delegates from the Civilian Conduct and Planning Capability (CPCC) and the Crisis Management and Planning Directorate (CMPD) whose responsibilities in Brussels include...

In a letter to the Speaker of the Somali Federal Parliament, Abdulkarim Buh,the Parliamentary Secretary, stated that the impeachment motion against the Somali President failed to meet the requirement that least 92 MPs can ask the Parliament to consider impeachment motion....