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David Malingha, Bloomberg News Somalia will expedite elections in a bid to quell instability and coax donors into releasing funds needed to pay the nation’s security forces and other state employees, Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdirizak said. The prime minister is scheduled to meet representatives from political parties and other interested groups in July to agree on...

DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP, Kenya — Abdalla Osman sits on the ground next to his wife and three children in this sprawling, dusty refugee camp and explains why he wants to stay, even though Kenyan authorities desperately want him to leave. He has built a good life in the camp since he escaped Somalia 30 years ago by opening a butcher shop,...

NAIROBI, Kenya – During his years as an administrator in the upstate New York State Department of Transportation, the Somali refugee-turned-American citizen took courses in political science, imbibing the democratic values ​​he he hoped one day to export to his country of origin. This dream came true for Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed in 2017, when he...

Between February 19 and April 9, federal and regional authorities in Somalia arrested at least two reporters and harassed at least four others, according to journalists who spoke to CPJ and a statement by the Somali Journalists Syndicate, a local press rights group. Most of the journalists were targeted for their political reporting, amid tensions after regional...

Mohamed Farmaajo of Somalia faces a daunting task of taking over the nation’s security operations at a time when the country’s donors and some federal states are not happy with the decision of the Lower House of parliament to extend their term and that of the president. In a pre-recorded interview in Somali and aired...