‘Kenya has suspended direct flights from Somalia’s capital Mogadishu to Nairobi for security reasons but Somalia has asked for reconsideration, saying the decision was politically motivated.
The BBC reported on Friday that the flights had been suspended and that planes will now...
By Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf
The Charter of the United Nations is not only the constituent instrument of the United Nations as an organization. It is a multilateral legal manifesto encompassing a set of basic principles and norms aimed at ensuring...
Everything You Have Told Me Is True by Mary Harper
Mary Harper, the veteran BBC reporter on Africa and now its section editor, has written a truly timely book which cuts through the political posturing, diplomatic niceties and, often, stereotypically...
By Goth Mohamed Goth
The two technical committees representing Somaliland and Somalia in the ongoing Consultation talks in Djibouti late last night signed a five-point preliminary agreement.
The two sides also agreed upon five points as guidelines for the three subcommittees...
Dahabshiil Group as part of its corporate social responsibility is committed to assisting the affected and vulnerable people in Somali-speaking regions made a donation in form of cash.
Persons evicted from Las Anod got a boost Friday with an additional...
More than 1,500 women victims of genital mutiliation in shock statistics compiled by ONE hospital... and most are from Somalia
The barbaric practice is most common in Muslim areas of Africa
However at least 11 of the victims were born in...
Last week, the U.S. government recognized a government of Somalia for the first time since 1991. In his remarks to Secretary of State Clinton, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud spoke of Somalia emerging from a period of chaos to one...
The Somali government has moved to calm diplomatic tensions following Kenya's decision to recall its ambassador to Mogadishu and instruct Somalia's ambassador to leave Nairobi.
The two counties are embroiled in a dispute over their maritime territorial boundary. The area...
As instability and famine continue to threaten the war-torn Horn of Africa country, Somalia's newly elected parliament met on Saturday for the first time, taking the country a step closer to the appointment of a new president.
Elections in Somalia...
Tries-old cultural and commercial ties with Somalia has made Yemen the primary
source for illicit arms among Somali importers. Consignments of small arms
and ammunition from Yemen across the Gulf of Aden in a matter of hours to the north-
ern coast...