Anigoo aad uga xun Colaadda iyo Dagaalka ka taagagan magaalo madaxda gobolka Sool ee Laascaanood, waxa aan ugu baaqayaa Dowladda Soomaaliland iyo Odayaasha Dhaqanka ee Sool, in si degdeg ah loo joojiyo dagaallada iyo colaaddaasi deegaanka Laascaanod, islamarkaana si dhakhsi ah ay dhinacyadu u billaabaan wadahadal NABADEED. Waa in loo tudhaa shacabka iyo maatida, lana joojiyaa dhiigga Muslimka ee qubanaya,...
April 25, 2025
U.S. Embassy Delegation Visit to Somaliland
Press Release On February 23, a delegation from the U.S. Embassy in Mogadishu led by Chargé d’Affaires Tim Trenkle visited Hargeisa to meet with Somaliland government officials, civil society representatives, and youth leaders to discuss security, prosperity, and democracy in the region. The delegation was received by Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi. The Chargé d’Affaires reiterated the United States...
Horn of Africa on track for sixth failed rainy season: climate body
The calamitous drought in the Horn of Arica looks certain to persist with a sixth consecutive failed rainy season, a regional climate monitoring body has warned, fearing worse conditions than a decade ago when some 260,000 people died in Somalia alone. Forecasts for the 2023 March-May rainy season point “towards depressed rainfall and high temperatures,” the Intergovernmental Authority on Development...
Calls Grow for Ethiopia’s Somali Region to End Media Suspensions
Calls are growing for Ethiopia to revoke an order that suspended 15 foreign media outlets and a regional journalists’ association from operating in the country’s eastern Somali Regional State. The state’s media regulator issued indefinite suspensions to the news outlets, which include the BBC Somali service, on January 28. The regulator’s order said the media organizations did not have the...
UN says 2022 deadliest in Somalia since 2017
Under attack: 121 people died in two car bomb blasts at the education ministry in Mogadishu last October UN chief Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that 2022 was the deadliest year for civilians in Somalia since 2017, largely because of an increase in mass-casualty attacks by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group. The troubled Horn of Africa nation — also confronting a calamitous...
Ethiopian graduate decries ‘worthless’ degree
Ameyu Etana A Ethiopian civil engineering graduate, who wrote a widely shared social media post lamenting a lack of job opportunities in the country, has told the BBC his degree is “worthless”. Asefa Alemu has vowed to return his degree to Assosa University. The 29-year-old currently works as a labourer in Debre Markos town, about 300km (186 miles) north of...
Attention to President Muse Bihi of Somaliland
By Dr Aweys O Mohamoud This is the written form of first of a series of podcast by Aways. A Somali saying has it, “A good advice benefits you (meaning, it leads you to a good life) but it doesn’t benefit from you –Talo adaa ku nool ee ayadu kuguma noola”. Can President Muse Bihi of Somaliland rectify two fundamental...
More than 83,000 flee violence in Somaliland
MOGADISHU, Somalia –The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has said more than 83,000 civilians fled the violence in Somalia’s northern town of Lasanod and arrived in Ethiopia’s Somali state. “Due to conflict in the Laascaanod district, an increasing number of people have been fleeing their homes, with more than 83,000 (subject to verification) having crossed the border into the Doolo...
Germany’s migration reforms will target African workers
Germany needs skilled labor and considers Africa a place from which to recruit — but that requires reforming its migration law to make it fair and favorable for Germany, as well as for migrants and their homelands. The German Federal government is expected to pass reforms to its migration law to make it easier for skilled African workers to migrate to Germany,...
Ten civilians killed in jihadist attack in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU: Al-Shabaab fighters attacked a house in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, killing 10 civilians, the government said. The raid took place around 1200 GMT in the northern district of Abdiasiz, the government said, adding that three civilians had been wounded. “The security forces rescued and extracted many other civilians from that house and other nearby buildings during the attack,”...