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Mohamud Hassan Soadde, Minister of information of Puntland Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed by the closure of Radio Daljir, the leading news radio station in Somalia’s autonomous northeastern region of Puntland. Heavily-armed police units closed the station’s studios in Galkayio, Garowe and Bosaso, Puntland’s three biggest cities, on 23 June. The police had a...

By Tobias Simon, The Guardian As Somalia prepares to choose a new government in August, there are concerns that the powerful clans who have long dominated political life in the country may try to manipulate the ballot while al-Shabaab militants also pose a threat, a senior UN official has said. Michael Keating, the head of...

Abdulazizi Billow Puntland, a semi autonomous region in North Eastern Somalia, has begun the trial of more than 100 Al-Shabaab militants. Three months ago, the region foiled the militant group’s plan to form a local base. Forty-three have already been sentenced to death after admitting to being members. This was the scene in March, as...

By HARRIET MALLINSON A jealous husband lured his estranged wife to their marital home and stabbed her to death with three knives after she told him she wanted a divorce, a court heard. Abdirashid Khadar, 22, who denies murder, sent mother-of-one Amal Abdi, 21, a text message saying: ‘Honey come and see me at home’...

FILE – A young boy leads hard-line Islamist al-Shabab fighters as they conduct military exercises in northern Mogadishu’s Suqaholaha neighborhood, Somalia. Mohamed Olad A top official with the U.N. Children’s Fund says there could be 5,000 child soldiers in Somalia as al-Shabab continues its recruiting campaigns. In an interview with VOA Somali, Susannah Price, UNICEF...