People forced to eat tree leaves as hunger bites MOGADISHU, Somalia -Thirteen people have been confirmed dead at an internally displaced persons camp in Kahda district in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. Goobjoog News, a Somali radio and TV station, reported Tuesday that three of those who died were children. “The three children died of hunger, while 10...
June 2, 2025
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Kenya warns locust swarm is spreading, threatening food security
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Swarms of desert locusts have spread from Ethiopia and Somalia into eastern and northern Kenya, posing a threat to food production and grazing land, its agriculture minister said on Friday. The locusts began crossing into Kenya around Dec. 28, initially destroying pastures in semi-arid counties mainly occupied by herder communities. They have...
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Bomb explosion in Somali troops, al-Shabaab clash
MOGADISHU,Somalia- An unknown number of people are feared dead following an al-Shabaab attack on Somali forces at Afgoye town, some 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) from the capital Mogadishu. Initial reports indicated that the militants first detonated a bomb before a fierce small arms gunfire battle with U.S.-trained special forces. Abdirizak Mohamed, the former minister of...
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Somalia is Still in Search of a Unique Governance Model
Abdisamad Nur Bidar To paraphrase the aptly titled book “Somalia: Nation in Search of a State” by David D. Laitin, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and the late Said Sheikh Samatar (RIP) who was a Professor of African History at Rutgers University until 2015, the dismembered nation in the Horn of Africa has...
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St. Louis Park’s youngest and first Somali-American city council member sworn in
St. Louis Park’s Nadia Mohamed sees a “new era” of inclusivity. By Mara Klecker Shortly after wrapping up her first day on the job Monday as a recruiter for a merchandising company in Plymouth, Nadia Mohamed headed to St. Louis Park City Hall. There, she raised her right hand and took on yet another new job:...
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A Present day Foretaste of what it looks like to be Somali in the Greater Horn of Africa
By Hussien Mohamed Yusuf Growing up as a primary and intermediate school student in just few Kilometers away from the Border with Somaliland in the eastern part of Ethiopia, I was able to hear good stories about Somalia from teachers in our School who were mostly educated and worked in Somalia in the good old...
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‘If I don’t pay, they kill me’: Al-Shabab tightens grip on Somalia with growing tax racket
By Omar Faruk and Max Bearak MOGADISHU, Somalia — The calls from an unknown number had been coming for weeks, but Osman, a household-goods trader in the Somali capital’s largest market, disregarded them — until he got the text message. “Will you pick up our call? Yes or no. This is the mujahideen,” it said. The mujahideen, the Islamist...
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Somali town’s novel solution for locust outbreak? Eat them!
Mogadishu – Residents of a central Somali town besieged by locusts have taken an unusual approach to fighting the destructive pests: eating them. Locals in Adado have started consuming the insects that have invaded their town and rural areas. Islamic scholars have declared them halaal and so permissible to eat. Pictures of people cooking and eating the locusts...
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INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS JOINT PRESS STATEMENT ON ELECTIONS IN SOMALIA
Mogadishu – Somalia’s international partners* reaffirm the importance of timely and effective preparations of the 2020/21 federal elections. At the Somalia Partnership Forum on 2 October, the Federal Government committed to enact the Electoral law and the amended Political Parties Law by December 2019. The Government further pledged to include at least 30 per cent minimum...
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Somalia expels top U.N. official after he criticizes crackdown on dissent
Nicholas Haysom, then the top U.N. envoy in Afghanistan, speaks during a news conference in Kabul in 2015. (Massoud Hossaini/AP) By Max Bearak Somalia’s government took the unusually drastic step of expelling the United Nations’ most senior official in the country late Tuesday after he questioned the detention of a former al-Shabab leader contesting regional elections....