Reviewed by: Abdirahman A. Issa Author: Markus Hoehne Publisher: Rift Valley InstitutePages: 182Publication date : 2015 On 26th December 2022, an unarmed civilian was killed in Laacaanood. The killing was the last in a string of assassinations that began in 2009, two year after Somaliland captured the town from Puntland. By the end of December 2022, the citizens...
Addis Abeba – A new study by HelpAge International looking at the impact of the global food, fuel and finance crisis in 10 different countries, including Ethiopia, revealed that 87 per cent of older people surveyed reported that both the diversity and quantity of food available to them and their households had declined due to the food, fuel...
JASON BEAUBIEN Friday is beach day in Mogadishu. Early in the day before Friday prayers and before the sun gets too hot, people flock to Liido Beach on the eastern side of the city. “This is a very important place,” says 22-year-old Mulki Anwar. “Because all these people they came here to have fun, to...
By Getahun Legesse Addis Abeba – Abraham Abebe is only eight-years old; he was sitting on a pavement in Piassa at a specific place known as Arada in the capital Addis Abeba next to an electronic weight scale, and playing with himself. Abraham is one of the ever increasing numbers of kids who are systematically trafficked...
By Aweys Omar Mohamoud Phd A video has recently emerged of a woman said to be the wife of Mahad Karate, the notorious al-Shabaab militia leader accused of playing a key role in suicide attacks and assassinations in Somalia and other countries in the region. In the video, the woman is apparently answering questions being...
Ahmed Mohamed MOGADISHU, SOMALIA — Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud announced Sunday the country will hire a record 3,000 new teachers to try to bridge a wide education gap. The move follows a four-fold increase in the Somali ministry of education’s budget for 2023. But critics note funding for education is still poor, and that insecurity...
By AGGREY MUTAMBO & ABDULKADIR KHALIF This week, President Hassan gathered federal state leaders in the capital to re-establish unity in the long-running fight to eliminate al Shabaab militia. Somalia now increasingly sees more drone strikes as crucial to finish off al Shabaab hide-outs, upending a policy Mogadishu fronted in the final months of the...
Ahmed Mohamed PrintMOGADISHU, SOMALIA — In its latest directive to media, the Somali government has requested that local news outlets submit content for approval before it airs. Several media houses in Mogadishu told VOA this week that the President’s Communications Office had ordered them to submit news content to authorities before it airs. Among those affected...
By Sofia Bettiza Little Haftom is nearly five years old. His name means “wealthy” in the Tigriyna language but he weighs just half what he should. As the doctor pulls up his jumper and tracksuit bottoms to show his spindly arms and legs, his mother looks on impassively. She does not want to give her...
By Katharine Houreld BAXDO, Somalia — A determined but often chaotic uprising by clan militias supported by Somali government troops has forced the al-Shabab militant group, one of al-Qaeda’s wealthiest and strongest global affiliates, onto the back foot, say Somali and U.S. officials. Political infighting in the Somali government had stymied any military offensive against al-Shabab...