PRESS RELEASE GAROWE, February 15, 2016 The European Union jointly with the Government of Puntland launched the second phase of the Puntland Education Sector Support Programme. The Waxbarashadu Waa Iftiin (Education is Light) phase II programme launched today is implemented...

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10 February 2016 Latest updates: – Terrorism section - on 2 February 2016 there was an explosion on a Daallo Airlines flight to Djibouti from Mogadishu and in January there was a major terror attacks at Lido beach in Mogadishu;...
Somali society in all ages believe that women are crucial for social development but when it comes resource sharing and  participation in political and socio-economic context, they are underrepresented and marginalized and worse of all women’s inclusion is perceived...
The Somali community of West London recently meet up with the mayoral candidate for London Sadiq khan at a Feltham and Heston labour party fundraiser 2016 event in Hounslow. The fundraiser was organised by Seema Malhotra MP and was...
On 3 February 2016, German Ambassador Jutta Frasch handed over her credentials to Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, President of the Federal Republic of Somalia. In her speech, Ambassador Frasch welcomed Somalia’s progress in recent years in building state institutions and initiating...
FEBRUARY 6, 2016 AMISOM PR/013/2016 PRESS RELEASE Mogadishu, 06 February 2016 - The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia and Head of Mission, Ambassador Francisco Madeira has noted with concern falsehoods in the media purporting...
It all started with Facebook erroneous comment on a basic fundamental economics concept by someone claiming to hold “doctoral” degree in the Economics. Oddly, that person was using a copy of his “Ph.D. degree in Economics” as banner in...
The decision of the Somali Federal Government to use 4.5 power-sharing to elect a president in 2016 was made in the last week of January,  twenty-five years after the collapse of the state. It is a symbolic rather than...
By Ahmed Kheyre   After much prodding and pushing by the international community, the presumptive federal entity in Mogadishu held a meeting to formulate plans for the proposed elections in 2016. These plans are to be based on the failed 4.5...
Mogadishu, 27th January 2016-----The National Leaders Forum (NLF) was reconvened in Mogaishu on the 24th of January 2016. The conference was hosted by the Federal Government of Somalia and was attended by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Prime Minister Omar...