(ERGO) – Around 1,250 pastoralists in Somaliland’s Hawd region have reaped farm produce for the first time, after struggling to navigate through prolonged drought that took a heavy toll on their livestock. Abdirahman Yusuf Adan,36, has been a pastoralist for most of his life. He recently sold his first crops of maize, sorghum, tomatoes, and watermelons...
Simon Marks and David Herbling Ethiopia is considering scrapping a plan to recognize the breakaway state of Somaliland, amid international pressure to defuse regional tensions over the proposal, according to people familiar with the matter. Landlocked Ethiopia signed an initial agreement with Somaliland in January that would make it the first nation to recognize the...
Türkiye’s TURKSOM Military Training School “plays an important role in building and improving” Somalia’s armed forces, says President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud. Hundreds of Somali soldiers who received training at the Turkish military base and defence university in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu have started their duty with a ceremony. Addressing the commissioning ceremony of the 500 trained soldiers...
By Laetitia Bader; Director, Horn of Africa In February, plainclothes security officers detained Batte Urgessa, a spokesperson for the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), an opposition political party, and French journalist Antoine Galindo, as they met for an interview in a hotel in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. More than twenty-four hours later, they were brought before the...
Türkiye helping Somalia with maritime security force, new pact has nothing to do with crisis with Addis Ababa, Ali Omar Balad tells Anadolu at Antalya Diplomacy Forum Dilara Hamit ANTALYA, Türkiye Somalia would never accept an attempt to annex a part of its territory, the country’s acting minister for foreign affairs and international cooperation said...
Somalia has formally began lobbying for its ex-Foreign Affairs minister Fawzia Yusuf Adam to be the next African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson in what could bring a direct challenge to Kenya’s Raila Odinga. Since January, there had been speculation that Ms Adam, the first female Foreign Minister in Somalia and who served under the first...
By Roble Dahir, Center for Social Development (CES) Introduction It has been 20 years since the establishment of the federal government in Somalia, yet the country still lacks fundamental principles and laws to govern it. The implementation of the federal system, including the constitution-making process, has been a contentious issue for a long time[1]. The...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said his country would “defend itself” if Ethiopia goes ahead with a deal to set up a naval base in the breakaway region of Somaliland and possibly recognise the territory as an independent state. Landlocked Ethiopia agreed a memorandum of understanding on Jan. 1 to lease 20 km...
Ethiopian authorities have used the state of emergency to silence peaceful dissent by arbitrarily detaining prominent politicians critical of the government and journalists, Amnesty International said today. On 2 February 2024, Ethiopia’s House of People’s Representatives endorsed an extension of the state of emergency, which came into force in August 2023 amid escalating violence in...
A Minnesota man has been charged with supporting ISIS after receiving military training at a terror camp in Somalia. U.S citizen Harafa Hussein Abdi, 41, from Minneapolis was taken into custody overseas and transported to the United States on Thursday, the Justice Department announced. ‘Mr. Abdi left his country to join ISIS, trained as a fighter and actively aided the...