Somalia

Somalia Partnership Forum COMMUNIQUE 2 October 2019 Somalia and its international partners met in Mogadishu on 1-2 October 2019 for the Somalia Partnership Forum (SPF). The participants took stock of the progress made since the previous SPF in July 2018, and agreed priority...

Sixty percent of Somalia's population depends on agriculture or livestock such as sheep, goats, camels and cattle Press Release OSLO, Norway, November 14, 2019/ -- Millions in Somalia need humanitarian aid because of extreme weather conditions and conflict. However, relief work...

Readers may question how come debt relief which is beneficial for Somalia fueled intense corruption, political conflicts, and Insecurity? The answer is focus on debt relief has provided the leaders of the federal government of Somalia (FGS) the opportunity...

Somalia does not have testing kits and samples have to be sent to South Africa, according to health officials by Hamza Mohamed The coronavirus pandemic could kill more people in Somalia than anywhere else if preventive measures are not put...

Somalia’s government has imposed a night curfew in the country’s capital of Mogadishu in a bid to curb the spread of the coronavirus, according to local news outlets. The curfew will commence from 15th April 2020, and will be imposed...

Police officers are seen in Mogadishu, Somalia, on April 16, 2020. Somali authorities have been holding journalist Mohamed Abdiwahab Nuur incommunicado since early March. (Reuters/Feisal Omar) Nairobi, April 30, 2020 -- Somali authorities should immediately release radio journalist Mohamed Abdiwahab...

Press statement Somalia will conduct something they will call elections within the next 12 months. Once again they will poach our youth and elders and will call them Somaliland representatives. Now is the time to do something about it. My recommendation...

Recently, the president of the federal government of Somalia signed an electoral law expected to move the country from a clan-based political system to a multiparty system. This move sparked hope of ending the clan-based power-sharing model of the...

By Ahmed Shiiraar and Ahmed Mohamed Introduction Somalis are known as an oral society as many western linguists, anthropologists, and cultural historians had observed for years—as narrative making, poetry has been the most important tool used as a medium for storytelling...

Somalia cabinet has approved the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) treaty for ratification to help spur trade with other African A statement issued by the office of the acting Prime Minister Mahdi Mohamed Guled said on Friday that the...