Category: Somali News & Politics

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A loud explosion was heard in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Monday morning, followed by heavy gunfire. “The blast takes place at the first checkpoint on the K4 road that leads to Mogadishu airport. We have no details so far,” shopkeeper Farah Hussein told Reuters. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack,...

Family of Muslim refugee says school failed to act over abuse and investigation by Greater Manchester Police was inadequate Mark Townsend Fresh allegations of bullying have emerged in the case of a 12-year-old schoolgirl who drowned in a Lancashire river, a tragedy that has raised concerns about the treatment of refugees in British society. Shukri...

Cyrus Ombati There was drama during a confrontation between locals and Al-Shabaab gunmen in Kutulo, Mandera County. At least three gunmen raided a construction site of a local hospital Sunday in search for non-locals. But before they arrived at the site, the locals had tipped off the construction workers, most of whom were non-locals and...

MOGADISHU, The African Union High-level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) led by former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, arrived in Mogadishu for high-level talks with Somali President, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo on pursuing the objectives of regional integration in the Horn of Africa. The visit on Saturday, 20 July, follows a mandate given to the panel by the...

By Cheti Praxides Residents of Ras Kamboni village on the Lamu-Somalia border were on Saturday held temporarily under house curfew as security units led by the Kenya Defense Forces combed the area in search of suspected al Shabaab militants. The security agencies had received intelligence that the terrorists had arrived in the area and were...

ERGO) – Radio Ergo’s IDP camp series this week explores the hard road to success for two men displaced from their homes respectively by conflict and drought, who set up their own businesses in Buhodle in northern Somalia.  After 12 years living in a shabby IDP camp, Yussuf Omar Mohamed can finally say he is living comfortably as a self-supporting businessman in the northern Somali town of Buhodle.  Yussuf fled conflict in the Somali capital,...

Hargeisa, Somaliland – Migrant returnees in Somaliland now stand a better chance of accessing critical services, thanks to the creation of a database application for the registration of returning migrants and the issuance of registration certificates.  In the Horn of Africa, Somalis account for the largest migrant population after Ethiopians. They move both intra-regionally and out...

Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar arrived to her home state of Minnesota on July 18, to a cheering crowd at the airport chanting, “Welcome home Ilhan.” The warm welcome came the day after President Donald Trump supporters chanted “send her back” in reference to Omar at a campaign rally in North Carolina. Omar, who was born...

(ERGO) – Drought-hit families in a village in Dhobley, in southern Somalia’s Lower Jubaregion, are faced with a stark choice between buying water and sending their children to school.  At least 200 children in Barwaqo village have been sent home following the closure of their school due to lack of funds.  Hassan Salat Bulley, the village chief, told Radio Ergo that the school relied on the contributions of some 500 local families, who were all struggling to...