Mogadishu, January 22. 2016------The Prime Minister of Federal Republic of Somalia H.E. Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke has unreservedly condemned the barbaric attack on Liido Beach Restaurant yesterday evening carried out by the terrorist group Al Shabab. PM Sharmarke has once...
COMMUNIQUE
Kismayo-18th January 2016-The Leaders Conference of the National Consultative Forum (NCF) was held in Kismayo on 10- 16 January 2016. The conference convened President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the Speaker of Parliament Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawari, Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid...
Kismayo 18th January 2016-----The Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia H.E. Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke unreservedly condemns the barbaric attack carried out by the terrorist group Al Shabab on the base of the AMISOM troops Kenya contingent and...
The National Consultative Forum held in Kismayo ended in deadlock. As leaders prepared to leave the city for the capital and other federal states the AUE ambassador to Somalia arrived with a message reportedly to encourage leaders to agree...
January 14, 2016
PRESS RELEASE
Mogadishu - January 13th,2016; A team of experts from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) visited the Djiboutian Contingent in Beletweyne to assess the impact of training offered to AMISOM Peacekeepers prior and during the...
A quarter of a century had elapsed when the state collapsed in Somalia 1991. It is an opportune time to reflect on what went wrong. Somalia has come a long way since 1991. The seemingly intractable political problems in...
By Bazi Bussuri Sheikh
A Somali elder was asked about the new federal system in Somalia and his response was “Federaalka Xaajadiisa hadaan sidii dabo ari loo feydin, ma fayoobaahayso”. He then added that for the newly imported federal system...
Bashir Goth
As Hiiraan prepares to declare its own state, adding another episode to Somalia’s tragic story of disintegration into clan Bantustans, I wonder if Hiiraan would go down the same road of insanity towards destroying the country’s statehood or...
New York, January 6, 2016-Somali authorities should immediately release journalist Abdirisak Omar Ahmed or disclose any charges against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Somalia's National Intelligence and Security Agency arrested Abdirisak, a freelancer who wrote for the...
The Ethiopian forces are pouring en masse in the port town of Kismayo in southern Somalia. Ahmed Madobe, the clan leader of Kismayo backed by Kenya and Ethiopia has recently announced a military operation named “Jubba River’’, which he...