Somalia

By: Business Daily A Mogadishu-based lender that has been in operation for under 10 years is set to acquire a controlling stake in First Community Bank (FCB), whose capital is below the required minimum.

Mogadishu, 20 November 2020 – The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today that large populations of Desert Locust in Somalia have moved towards southern parts of the country while widespread hatching and hopper band formation continues. The areas most affected include Sool,...

By:KUN LI Surviving motherhood and infancy in Somalia is a tenuous thing given what the country’s healthcare professionals are up against. Fifteen-day-old Faadumo lies quietly with her big, dark eyes wide open. Her tiny head and dainty fists rest on a nest of blankets, starting with...

MOGADISHU, Somalia 01 May, 2020 – Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) wishes all Somali journalists a Happy International Workers' Day. SJS salutes and firmly stands with the working journalists facing extreme conditions due to Covid-19 pandemic and the limited resources enabling them to work from home,...

By:Staff reporter U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken “deeply concerned” by the electoral impasse in Somalia, and called on Somalia's leaders to hold elections “immediately. "The United States is deeply concerned by the electoral impasse in Somalia, which is creating political uncertainty that threatens security, stability,...

By Susan Svrluga One morning early in his freshman year at Cornell University, Ahmed Ahmed got a writing assignment back, flipped it over and stared at the letter in shock: C+. He went to his biology class, where the professor displayed a large graph showing the...

Opinion: Weeks after hundreds were killed, another attack struck Mogadishu—stories of death that have become achingly familiar for Somali-Canadians By:Hawa Y. Mire Hawa Y. Mire is a diasporic Somali storyteller, writer, and strategist with more than a decade of experience in high-impact community-based initiatives, as well as the...

From November 21st to 23rd EUCAP Nestor, in cooperation with EU NAVFOR (Somalia) Operation Atalanta, organised a Legal Maritime Workshop for prosecutors and police officers in Mogadishu. The eleven participants, including a female prosecutor, learnt about and exchanged views on several legal and maritime security...

By: XINHUA The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Wednesday it has spent 13 million U.S. dollars in August to help over 150,000 households, most of them in south and central Somalia, amid drought and...

Al-Shabab militants have warned parents in Somalia against sending their children to secular schools and universities. The Al-Qaeda-affiliated group issued the directive in a 26-minute recording released on Thursday. Its spokesman, Sheikh Ali Mohamoud Rage, said children should attend only Islamic schools and claimed other...