AMISOM PR/017/2016
Mogadishu- The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has learned, with great concern, that an incident in which civilian lives were lost has taken place in Bula Marer, Lower Shabelle Region, where AMISOM troops are involved in the...
Khat has been used in Somalia for centuries, and has a long history of use in the Horn of Africa region. The ancient Egyptians viewed Khat leaves as sacred, whilst Sufi religious men chewed the drug during their meditations:...
In a press conference he held in his office, Somaliland’s Minister of Information and National Guidance, Osman Abdillahi Sahardid has strongly denounced Somalia’s claim of Somaliland participating the Somalia’s Electoral Process in absence.
Stressing where Somaliland stands as independent state, Minister...
Top management members, led by Dahabshiil Group Deputy Chairman, Abdirahman Ali Abdi, held a sumptuous, dignitary-studded luncheon in honor of a delegation that recently arrived from Mogadishu to lend a hand in the relief of drought effects on vast...
New York, March 23, 2016 -- A military court in Mogadishu on Sunday upheld sentences imposed on six people convicted in connection with the December 2015 murder of Somali broadcast journalist Hindia Haji Mohamed.
The defendants had appealed the original ruling,...
At the end of 2015, Operation Atalanta protected a UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO) vessel, MV Kestrel, from potential pirate attack as it deployed twenty five Fishing Aggregation Devices (FADs) off the coast of Somalia.
The FADs’ unique design...
Monday 14 March 2016
EU launches 9 new projects in support of Civil Society and Human Rights in Somalia
Today, the European Union (EU) jointly with the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation of the Federal Government of Somalia launched 9...
New York, March 4, 2016 - A military court in Mogadishu on Thursday found Hassan Hanafi, a former journalist, guilty of direct or indirect involvement in the killing five journalists on behalf of the armed militant group Al-Shabaab, according...
“If no help comes, drought will push Somalia/Somaliland further into chaos,children and women will be the worst affected”
Warns Save the Children Somalia/Somaliland
24th February 2015
Press Release for Immediate Release
Save the Children Somalia/Somaliland has warned the international community today that “if...
PRESS RELEASE
22 February 2016, Istanbul, Turkey
The Federal Government of Somalia regrets the events that transpired at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) where Somali delegations transited on their way to Istanbul, Turkey for the High-Level Partnership Forum.
Unfortunately, some of...