Somalia

The First and Second Deputy Speakers of the Somali Parliament Abdiweli Muuddey and Mahad Awad rejected the decision of the Parliamentary Speaker, Mohamed Mursal, to consider the impeachment motion tabled by 92 MPs in Mogadishu. In...

The Annual Heritage Institute Forum for Ideas will kick off in Djibouti on Saturday. The theme is Change and Continuity in the Horn of Africa. Speakers at the Forum include the Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia, the...

Horndiplomat-According to VOA Somali Service  senior producer, Harun Maruf, “ some Somali MPs say they have tabled a motion of impeachment against President Farmaajo”. MPs cited violation of the constitution and desire to unite Somalia and Ethiopia. MPs behind the motion will...

 NEWS ANALYSIS  By Mohamed Duale The Somalia Federal Parliament Speaker, Mohamed Mursal, has reversed a decision to disband the Finance Committee of the Parliament. The Deputy Speaker, Mr Abdiweli Muudey, disbanded the committe while the Speakerwas on...

Mogadishu, December 04 , 2018 -Somalia Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation,  Amb. Ahmed Isse Awad, received  in his office at the ministry a copy of the credentials of His Excellency Mr. Mehmet Yilmaz, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Turkey...

Kenya Airways has postponed the launch of its direct flight from Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to the Somali capital Mogadishu indefinitely. The national carrier which had initially planned to fly to Mogadishu beginning November 15 was to launch its direct flights to Aden...

Nairobi-The United States has renewed a "permanent diplomatic presence" in Somalia, the State Department said, nearly 30 years after the U.S. embassy was closed as a civil war raged in the Horn of Africa country. Somalia has been trying to recover from the conflict that...

GAROWE – The semiautonomous northern Somalia state of Puntland faces a potential leadership split just a month before the region holds the much-awaited presidential election after the vice president challenged the president over the formation of a new electoral dispute resolution committee, appointing his...

Self-exiled Somali opposition leader Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame has said he plans to return to Mogadishu this month to mark the first anniversary of his arrest. Mr Abdishakur said he intended to hold a big rally in the Somali capital, which will also be used to...

( Horn Diplomat News Desk) The Paris-based Indian Ocean Newsletter reports the European Union and Britain are on the same page as to who will fill the vacuum to emerge when Amisom mandate ends in Somalia. With no Somali Army to take over from Amisom, Ethiopia...