Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ruled out conflict with Somalia on Tuesday regarding a Red Sea Access deal with Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland. Ahmed told the federal parliament that Addis Ababa has no intention of causing harm to Somalia...
PRESS STATEMENT: The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has today called for the immediate and unconditional release of a journalist Ali Aden Mumin arrested in Mogadishu after posting comments on his Facebook account. According to Director of Goobjoog Media...
by Imad K. Harb The decision by the United Arab Emirates to withdraw its troops from Yemen was a tactical maneuver in a regional landscape witnessing several strategic challenges by other equally interested parties. In addition to Yemen, other countries abutting the...
Upon a complaint by an associate of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a judge in Turkey ordered the complete block of a news story by Nordic Monitor that exposed the Turkish government’s links to the al-Shabab terrorist network in...
By Abdinassir Hassan Muhumed Introduction This article aims to critically analyze the possible implications of any future unification between the two states of Somalia and Ethiopia. This comes at a time of major political transition within Ethiopia, which began at the...
President of Somalia and its semi-autonomous region, Somaliland met in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa in what is the first major face-to-face talks between their leaders, the Voice of America’s Somali service reports. Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo arrived in...
The Federal Government of Somalia has been proactive in addressing the coronavirus and, like everywhere else in the world, there are meetings after meetings on this global issue. A facility has been identified for quarantining and treating the victims...
Mogadishu 12th April, 2020 - The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) and Head of AMISOM, Ambassador Francisco Caetano Madeira, congratulates the Somali National Armed Forces (SNAF) as they mark 60 years since their...
Somali journalists in Mogadishu, Somalia December 29, 2019. © REUTERS/Feisal Omar Allow Public Debate on Security, Covid-19 Responses  (Nairobi) – Somali authorities have been stepping up their intimidation of journalists as the country faces a growing number of Covid-19 cases. Since mid-April 2020 alone,...
The International Court of Justice has postponed a hearing into Somalia and Kenya's long-running maritime dispute by another 10 months following Kenya’s petition. Both countries claim sovereignty of an area in the Indian Ocean that is thought to be rich...