Much has been done to tackle the problems caused by maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia, but more needs to done to build the capacity of Somalia and its neighbours to control their own shores and patrol their own waters, said UAE Foreign Minister Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan. In a statement issued...
Waxaanu arrintan ka wareysanay aqoonyahanka Faysal Cabdi Rooble oo maanta noogu martiya Barnaamijkeena Raadraac. Haddaba Md. Faysal oo aan khadka Telefoonka kula xidhiidhay isagoo ku sugan magaalada Los Angels oo uu degganayahay, ayaa wareysigan kaga hadlayaa arrimo badan oo muhiim ah ee hoos ka dhegeyso.
By Muhyadin Ahmed Roble and Yusuf Ahmed MOGADISHU/NAIROBI (IPS) – After his first year as president of the world’s most dangerous and failed state, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is still grappling with limited financial resources, corruption, a lack of service delivery, and the ongoing assassinations of government officials, including attempts on his own life. The Somali president, who on Tuesday...
By Awad Mustafa and Ramola Talwar Badam DUBAI // Somaliland’s new minister of foreign affairs has met UAE ministers and expatriates to discuss progress in his troubled homeland. Mohammed Behi Younis was Somalia’s top international diplomat and the architect of the world’s largest humanitarian relief operation in Darfur until he took up his new position six...
By: Kiflu Hussain “Today is my birthday, said Abera to his girlfriend, Lulit.And she said, ‘Oh! Darling, why didn’t you let me know beforehand? To which he ruefully responded; ‘I also remembered it when I was cursing the day I was born.” Paraphrased and roughly translated from the late Baalu Girma’s novel “Beyond the Horizon.”...
Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has said the Ethiopian Somali Region has become beneficiary of the peace and development opportunities created in the Region over the past years. The Premier made the remark Sunday evening on an event held at Sheraton Addis that focused on Ethiopian Somalis’ culture and history organized by Heber Ethiopia: Art and...
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER WASHINGTON — An alleged Somali pirate is back in jail, less than 24 hours after he was released pending trial. Last Thursday, U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle ordered Ali Mohamed Ali released from custody. Huvelle said that Ali’s continued pretrial detention — 28 months and counting — violates his rights under...
By Michael Platt, QMI Agency CALGARY – His rights, as a convicted drug trafficker ordered deported to Somalia, were deemed more important than the guaranteed safety of Canadian citizens. And so, despite warnings that Bashir Gaashaan was a flight risk who posed a danger to the public, Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board let him go...
Madaxweynaha Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya Md. Xasan Sheekh Maxamuud, ayaa sheegay in dawladdiisu ay qaadday tallaabooyin lagu xoojinayo dhinacayada ammaanka, maaraynta iyo dhawrista hantida dalka. Waraysi dheer oo ay shabakadda WardheerNews la yeelatay madaxweyne Xasan Sh. Maxamuud munaasabadda sannad guurada markii loo doortay xilka madaxweynenimada Soomaaliya oo ku beegan bishan Seb 10 keeda, ayuu kaga warramay...
The EU has announced that it will provide additional support of more than €124 million to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). This new financial support by the EU will cover costs including troop allowances for all AMISOM soldiers, police and civilian components of the mission, as well as operational costs of the mission headquarters...