Users in the Arab Gulf region reacted to the reports of Qatari involvement in the recent hostage release of Italian volunteer Silvia Romano after her captivity by al-Shabaab, pointing to Doha’s track record of facilitating finance of terror groups. Romano,...
04 June 2015 - The Somali government has offered nine million hectares of land to the Egyptian government to develop model farming, according to the Egyptian newspaper Elbalad. Egypt’s Minister of Agriculture, Salah Halal, said his government will help Somalia in...
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...
By M.A. Egge The Somaliland Aviation and Airports Authority (SAAA) revealed that the Mogadishu based Somali government has acknowledged that that they have lost control of much of the airspace in many areas of their country. This was disclosed in a...
The Italian foreign minister has made a surprise visit to Somalia in an effort to renew ties, news agencies have reported. Giulio Terzi's visit to the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday is the first high-level visit from an official from Rome in two decades. Welcoming Terzi, Somalia's...
The UNICEF Somalia Representative Sikander Khan said in a statement on Tuesday that it has received $1.3 million to scale up fight against polio outbreak in Somalia. The UN agency said the fund will help UNICEF and its partners conduct...
 United Nations envoy who was recently ordered to leave Somalia warned Thursday about its "political turbulence," while its U.N. ambassador admonished the world body to stay out of his country's internal affairs. Both addressed the Security Council at a regularly...
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Six candidates were elected to the House of the People as voting for Somaliland and northern regions commenced today in the Somali capital. The victorious candidates included Somalia’s Deputy Prime Minister Mohamed Omar Arte, former Foreign Affairs Minister Abdirahman Du’ale...
Under Pressure: Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and the former Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire pulled the plug on the process to conduct “a full inventory of the Federal Government property and public property sold or leased since 2012.”   By Liban...