Barclays bank plans to close about 100 UK accounts held by cash transfer businesses. These services have provided a vital lifeline for an estimated 42% of the Somali population that depend on remittances sent from families living abroad.
The funds...
The government of the semi auotomunuos region of Puntland has today in a press release announced the indefinite suspension of the local government elections which were due to begin today the 15/7/2013.
The suspension of the local government elections came...
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Kismanyo, a small city with a very small population strategically rests on the peninsula of the Indian Ocean coast in the lower juba state in Southern...
Nairobi, July 8, 2013-Two unidentified gunmen killed TV reporter Liban Abdullahi on Sunday evening in Galkayo, a central town in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, according to local journalists and news reports.
Liban, who was also known as "Liban Qaran,"...
The plane of Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud made an emergency landing in Mogadishu Monday after experiencing engine problems.
The president was unharmed in the incident, and there were no reports of any injuries.
Government spokesman Abdirahman Omar Osman says the...
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...
(Reuters) - At least four foreign crew members and seven Somali pirates died when a cargo ship that the pirates were holding to ransom off the Somali coast sank on Sunday, and 13 others were missing, a pirate who...
For Somalis Ogaden is one of the Somali clans, Ogaden clan inhabits in South Somalia near the Kenya/Somalia border, and settle on both sides of Somalia/ Kenya border with other Somali clans, they are also one of the many ...
Nairobi -Kenyan politicians and khat traders are calling on the government to initiate talks with British officials to reverse the ban on khat and save the multi-million dollar agricultural sector from collapsing.
Kenyan farmers say the new British ban on...
I am Somali boy in war-torn ravaged home,
where my people eradicate each other just for the throne.
Blood is way cheaper than water for them to spill.
With pernicious guns and grenades each other they kill.
My peers in other world are...