More than 2,000 young men in Somaliland are now behind the wheel earning a decent living with the new online taxi company, Dhaweye. Dhaweye launched its mobile phone taxi hailing application in March 2019. Abdullahi Ahmed Hassan, 32, is one of the 2,080 drivers signed up with Dhaweye in the past six months. He is...
June 10, 2025
Category: Somali News & Politics
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Meet Somalia’s trailblazing female camel trader
Zamzam Yusuf, a grandmother of 29, is breaking barriers by entering the once men-only camel trading industry in Somalia. By Abdishukri Haybe & Hamza Mohamed Kismayo, Somalia – Every morning just before sunrise, Zamzam Yusuf makes the short drive between her house in Kismayo to a farm about 30 kilometres (19 miles) outside the Somali port city....
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UN, World Bank call for sustained funding to end Somalia crises
With the latest analysis showing that Somalia’s main harvest was the worst since the famine in 2011, humanitarian agencies are calling for sustained funding for the country. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Co-ordinator Mark Lowcock last week Thursday called for continued support to protect recent gains made in beating hunger and reiterated the...
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South Sudan’s ceasefire largely holding, says UN chief
In a report to the Security Council, said government and SPLA-IO have been able to contain NAS on the ground, including by pushing them from areas where they had control over resources. “Fighting in Payai, outside Lobonok, at the end of July resulted in NAS ceding control of a gold-mining area to SPLA-IO forces,” he...
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Somali government slaps Jubaland State with more sanctions
These latest economic sanctions come hot on the heels of a previous ban on direct flights from Nairobi to Kismayu slapped on Jubaland immediately after the election of President Madoobe in August. By Hassan Mohamed The Federal Government of Somalia plans to cut off working ties with Jubaland State, stop giving it share of the...
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Puntland Leader Vows to Defeat Terrorists to Attract Investors
The president of Puntland, the semi-autonomous region of Somalia, on Sunday committed to defeat militant groups in the region as he seeks to attract foreign investments. “I strongly pledge to protect anyone who invests in Puntland,” President Said Abdullahi Deni told an investment conference in the capital, Garowe. “There are a few terrorist militants of...
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Somalia economy grows but literacy lags behind
By NJIRAINI MUCHIRA The World Bank has applauded Somalia’s economic resurgence, but said that high levels of illiteracy pose a threat to long-term growth. Despite being ravaged by years of instability and recurring terrorist attacks, Somalia’s economy — currently worth $7.5 billion — doubled its growth to 2.8 per cent in 2018, from 1.4 per...
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Network outage prevents drought-hit families in southern Somalia’s Elwak from buying food
Dozens of families have been fleeing their homes in drought-hit villages in southern Somalia’s Gedo region, as telecommunications network outages have left them unable to buy food and water. Residents in Duya’a-garon, Geriley, Awsquran, Darasalam, Damaso, Fafahdun, and Khadijo-haji in Elwak district have been facing intermittent network outages, following the destruction of telecommunication masts allegedly by...
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Kenya targets officials’ overseas trips in “brutal” spending cuts
Kenya plans “brutal” cuts to spending, including on government officials’ overseas trips, in an effort to rein in the fiscal deficit, its acting finance minister said on Thursday. The government in its annual budget in June set a target to bring the fiscal deficit down to 5.6 percent of gross domestic product for the 2019/20...
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Egypt Voices Concern Over Procrastination in Nile Dam Talks with Ethiopia
Cairo – Asharq Al-Awsat- The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has voiced concern over the procrastination in negotiations with Ethiopia on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). In a meeting with European ambassadors to Egypt on Thursday, Hamdi Louza, Deputy Minister for the African Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Egypt had made a fair...