Category: Somali News & Politics

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...

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...

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...

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...

Mohamed Dhaysane MOGADISHU, Somalia: At least five people — including a deputy governor and a former minister — were killed and several others wounded in a roadside blast targeting their vehicle in the Middle Shabelle region of Somalia on Sunday, police said. Mahamud Dhuhlow, a police officer in the region, told Anadolu Agency over the phone...

Members of Parliament on Friday visited Kitui following the killing of three people in clashes involving Somali camel herders and locals. The Committee on Administration and National Security members led by chairman Paul Koinange were joined by Kitui East and Kitui South MPs Nimrod Mbai and Rachel Nyamai.  Constituents of the two Kitui legislators were...

Kenya said it’s seeking an out-of-court settlement of a dispute over an oil-rich territory with Somalia, a week after the United Nations International Court of Justice granted its request to delay the case. “The matters are not black and white,” Kenyan Foreign Secretary Monica Juma said Friday in the capital, Nairobi. A “sustainable solution has...

Sterling Energy has announced that the Government of the Republic of Somaliland has granted a continued extension to the current period of the Odewayne Production Sharing Agreement (‘PSA’). The expiry dates of the relevant exploration periods under the PSA shall now be: Third Period: 2 November 2020; Fourth Period (optional): 2 May 2022; Fifth Period (optional): 2...

Uganda Airlines has disputed claims that it had grounded one of its planes and failed to make scheduled flights to Somalia this week. Early this month the airline launched flights to Mogadishu, Somalia (four times weekly), but according to one disappointed customer, the airline failed to make the flight to Somalia yesterday, Thursday.  The airline...