Mogadishu-April 19th, 2015: The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia (SRCC) Ambassador Maman S. Sidikou has learnt with sadness news of an attack on AMISOM troops in the Lower Shabelle region.
The cowardly ambush...
Human Rights Council
Forty-second session 9–27 September 2019
Agenda item 10
Technical assistance and capacity-building
Summary
In the present report, the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, Bahame Tom Nyanduga, highlights the situation of human rights during the past year...
SONG for SHEIKH ASHIR
to the memory of Sheikh Ashir Maadoow Mahad;
and to Mohammed Haji Mukhtar
If I could have sat,
At the feet of the sheikh of my choice –
It would have been those of Sheikh Ashir.
If I should ever...
12/03/2015
During its port visit to Djibouti on Monday 23 February 2015, EU Naval Force warship, ESPS Rayo, hosted 35 Somali Coast Guard (SCG) cadets.
The visit was organized in support of the European Union’s maritime capacity building mission, EUCAP Nestor,...
Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) & Somali Women Development Centre (SWDC)
Press Release
Mogadishu: Student Gang - Raped
Iqra Osman Mohamed, a 15 year old student studying in the teacher training program at Mogadishu University, recently suffered...
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By Hassan Omer
Once or twice a week, a dozen amateur musicians meet under a highway overpass on outskirts of Mogadishu carting with them drums, cymbals and the collective memory of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is offering $10 million for information leading to the arrest of two Americans in Somalia who are on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists List.
The State Department says the rewards are $5 million each for al-Shabab members Omar...
8 July 2013 – The United Nations envoy in Somalia today underscored the importance of protecting journalists and defending press freedom, following the killing of a television reporter on Sunday.
Libaan Abdullahi Farah ‘Qaran,’ a reporter for Kalsan TV based...
A car bomb in the Somali capital killed three people and wounded several others in the latest attack in war-ravaged Mogadishu, police said Friday.
"The car exploded while the driver was moving in it... three people were killed," said police...
BOSASO, Somalia, December 13, 2021-Jafar had two wishes. The first was to see his family again. He couldn't remember when he left Ethiopia; perhaps eight months ago, maybe a year.
Financial problems in the teenager's hometown convinced him that reaching...