Nairobi, August 19, 2013-Three assailants killed veteran radio technician Ahmed Sharif Hussein outside of his home in the Shibis neighborhood of Mogadishu on Saturday, according to news reports and local journalists.
Unidentified gunmen, disguised as school students, shot Ahmed four...
Aid groups are leaving because of violent attacks. But the biggest problem is that the West is undermining any progress. By Michael Shank
Despite the news that Doctors Without Borders is quitting Somalia after 20-plus years in the country,...
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Somalia is suffering an "explosive" outbreak of polio and now has more cases than the rest of the world combined, an official said Friday.
Vaccine-wielding health workers face a daunting challenge: accessing areas of Somalia controlled by...
15/8/2013
On August 11, 2013, Former Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi was invited to attend a meeting held in Nairobi to welcome the vice president of the Jubaland, Abdullah sheikh Ismail (fartaag), who came to Nairobi for consultation meeting with...
Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has closed all medical programmes in Somalia following a series of attacks and abduction of aid workers.
The humanitarian organisation, which has worked in the country since the start of civil war in the...
14th August 2013
Press Statement: AMISOM Troops Commit Brutal Gang Rape in Mogadishu, Somalia
On the 8th August 2013, a 20 year old Somali woman was kidnapped close to her village in Yaqshid district, Mogadishu and brutally raped by AMISOM forces....
Barclays bank says it doesn't want to enable money laundering, but critics say it is cutting vital flows of money into the country.
By Tom Murphy/ August 13, 2013
Somalis are bracing for the impact of the British bank Barclay’s decision to sever...
Somalia’s economy has been seriously weakened by the devastating civil war. In this part, agriculture is considered as the most important sector for livelihood as the livestocks account to 40% of the GDP and 65% of export earnings. In...
Date: 31st May 2013
To: H.E Ambassador Sayid Sherif Hassan
Somali Ambassador in Pretoria
South Africa
Dear Ambassador Sayid Sherif;
I write for a two-fold purpose; first to express my sentiments on the establishment of the Somali embassy in Pretoria, and then to suggest...
Members of the Shebab Islamist group have stolen £480,000 ($750,000, 550,000 euros) worth of British government-funded humanitarian materials and supplies in Somalia, it emerged on Sunday.
The theft, revealed in the fine print of the Department for International Development's annual...