Somali operator to set up LTE network to enable internet connections East African nation Somalia is set to become the next African country to launch an network in the country’s capital city, Mogadishu, reports IT Web Africa. Global voice, data and carrier solutions provider Glocall Telecom plans to set up a 4G network in Somalia.The...
November 14, 2026
Category: News
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The man who established Somaliland’s ‘yellow cab’ service
By Sean Williams, for CNN Abdikarim Salah Mohamud left Somaliland in 1988 for Melbourne and returned 23 years later to start Hargeisa Taxi. It’s a typically buttoned-up, breezy night in Hargeisa when a child is born in one of Abdikarim Salah Mohamud’s minivan cabs. The cab’s driver stands at the side of a dusty backstreet. It’s...
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Ethiopia Sees Output at Africa’s Biggest Power Plant by 2015
By William Davison Ethiopia will begin generating electricity within 18 months from what will be Africa’s largest power plant, the government said. The sale of 7.1 billion birr ($367 million) of bonds over the past three years to domestic investors, has contributed to the 27 billion birr spent so far on the 75.5 billion birr Grand Ethiopian...
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka aan idiin hayno maanta waxaa ka mid ah: R/wasaaraha Soomaaliya oo maanta isbitaalka Xalane ku booqday dhaawacyo laga keenay Buula Burte, Ahlu Sunna oo sheegtay in ay isku soo dhiibeen Rag Shabaab ah iyo warar kale. Hoos ka dhegeyso warka oo dhan
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Somalia: UN envoy welcomes progress in regaining key towns from insurgents
A sniper serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is seen at daybreak on a frontline position. Credit: UN Photo/Stuart Price. The United Nations envoy for Somalia, Nicholas Kay, has welcomed progress made by the national army and the African Union peacekeeping mission in regaining control of key towns from Al Shabaab insurgents....
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Shebab says latest suicide bomber was 60-year-old from Norway
Somalia’s Al Qaeda-linked Shebaab rebels on Wednesday identified a suicide car bomber who struck a town recently captured by African Union troops as a 60-year-old Somali man who held Norwegian citizenship. The attack in Buulo Burde in the south of the country on Tuesday targeted a hotel crowded with army officers and was followed by...
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No detente until Qatar mends its ways: KSA
Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal. Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that its dispute with Qatar would not be resolved unless Doha changed its policy. It also ruled out any US mediation to resolve the standoff between Qatar and its three GCC neighbors — Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain. “There will not be any breakthrough...
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Oscar nominee Barkhad Abdi on track for Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck
Winner of best supporting actor Bafta to follow Captain Phillips success with role in new Apatow comedy By Andrew Pulver In the swim … Barkhad Abdi. Photograph: Anthony Harvey/Getty Images Bafta-winning Somali-American actor Barkhad Abdi is set to join Judd Apatow’s new comedy, Trainwreck, alongside Amy Schumer, who wrote the script and has been cast in...
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Djibouti confirms 5 soldiers killed in Somalia attack
DJIBOUTI, (Xinhua) — Djibouti has confirmed that five soldiers from the Red Sea country were killed in a recent attack in Somalia, where Al-Qaida linked terrorists launched two attacks on the targets of government and the African Union (AU) mission this week. One attack was launched Monday night targeting Djiboutian soldiers deployed in central Somalia...
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka aan idiin heyno maanta waxaa ka mid ah: Al Shabaab oo sheegatay qaraxyo ka dhacay Deegaamka Calamada iyo Hiiraan, howl galo laga sameeyay degmada Buula Burde iyo warar kale