MOGADISHU, Somalia- The United Nations Security Council voted Thursday to renew the mandate of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), a peacekeeping force first deployed in the country in 2007. According to a statement issued by the UK at … Continued
Scores of Yemeni refugees, mostly women and children, arrived in Somalia’s coastal city of Bosaso, Somali authorities announced on Wednesday, according to the Yemen Shabab, an independent website. This is the third boatful of Yemeni refugees to arrive in Somalia. It … Continued
Mohamed Abdi Afi, a resident of the Somali capital Mogadishu, has started a campaign to support the city’s De Martino Hospital with essential COVID19 equipment after his eight-months pregnant wife died with the virus in the hospital this month. Mohamed … Continued
MOGADISHU, Somalia – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Somalia on Thursday expressed concerns of recent clashes in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. “Political tension in Somalia is likely to affect people’s livelihoods,” the OCHA said in … Continued
Zeynab Osman Ahmed was reunited with her 14-year-old-son Ahmed Arab Ahmed this month after an absence of five years. Ahmed ran away from home at the age of nine to live on the streets in the Somaliland capital Hargeisa. “My … Continued
At 19 years old, Asha Mohamed is divorced and drives a taxi in Somalia, defying conventions to support her family in one of the world’s most conservative and dangerous countries. For the past year, the young woman has crisscrossed the … Continued
DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s Sheikh Zaki Yamani, the embodiment of the ascent of Arab petroleum power and the face of the 1973 oil embargo that brought the West to its knees, has died. Yamani was a witness to the … Continued
Opposition presidential candidates say they will hold anti-government rally on Friday Mohammed Dhaysane MOGADISHU, Somalia The Somalian government on Tuesday banned protests in the capital Mogadishu due to rising COVID-19 cases and security threats in the Horn of Africa country. … Continued
MOGADISHU, Somalia- A suicide bomber blew himself up near a busy shopping mall and a police station in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, officials said, with no casualties as yet confirmed. “A man blew himself up between the Mogadishu … Continued
Mogadishu/New York, – The political stresses currently gripping Somalia and the need for dialogue and compromise to resolve them featured strongly in the briefing today of the United Nations envoy to the country at a meeting of the world body’s Security … Continued
Protesters and the population in Mogadishu said that the special forces of the Gorgor Special Division, trained by Turkey, attacked civilians and killed demonstrators, which took Somalia back to the days of the civil war and possibly unleashing a security … Continued
GAROWE, SOMALIA – Somalia’s president, whose four-year term expired this month, should not take part in talks aimed at resolving a dispute that has delayed the selection of a new head of state, two of Somalia’s five regional governments said … Continued
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