By Jason Hartwig
When I worked in Somalia from 2016 to 2018 supporting provision of military assistance to forces combating al-Shabaab, most discussions with international partners acknowledged that our efforts could not ultimately defeat the jihadist group. As part of...
By Mohamed Ibrahim
Given the magnitude of responsibility and challenges before our Somalia leaders, one would thought our leaders would be busy fostering and cultivating progressive politics beyond petty politics that only serves backward politics. Unfortunately, this has not been...
Turkey's humanitarian and development aid to Somalia is the backbone of the strong friendship between the two historically close allies
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Somalia with his family in 2011, when he was the prime minister, and took important...
Mohamed Kalil is MSF’s humanitarian affairs advisor for Somalia and Somaliland. He has been working for the organisation for over a decade and was part of the first emergency team deployed in Beledweyne, central Somalia, to respond to the...
Human remains in Somaliland's Valley of Death. (Photo courtesy of the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team, led by Franco Mora)
Siyad Barre’s Autocratic regime that exalted Somali Republic for 21 years (1969 – 1991) with centralized autocratic government with severe economic...
Following a much-politicized move by flyDubai which suspended its flights to Somaliland on March 19 and later, the government of Somaliland, Saturday, proclaimed that its airports were open to all international flights except for those temporarily banned to the...
Men are seen in Mogadishu, Somalia, on March 18, 2020. Somali authorities recently arrested journalist Abdiaziz Ahmed Gurbiye over his COVID-19 Facebook posts. (AP/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
Nairobi, April 16, 2020 -- Somali authorities should immediately and unconditionally release journalist Abdiaziz...
87 per cent of migrants reported not being aware about COVID-19
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 4, 2020/ -- In Week 18, between 26 April to 2 May 2020, a total of 2,772 movements were observed at various Flow Monitoring Points (FMP)...
The coronavirus poses enormous challenges for Somalia, where the humanitarian situation is already dire, said the top UN envoy for the country on Thursday.
Somalia, like the rest of the world, is focused on confronting COVID-19.
There are more than 1,500...
World Refugee Day comes at a time of a triple threat for Somalia – in addition to the COVID-19 pandemic, the country is dealing with effects of desert locusts and flooding
MOGADISHU, Somalia, June 20, 2020/ -- Marking World Refugee...