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...
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...
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...
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/...
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...
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...
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...
Radical Islamic organization Al Shabaab, Al Qaeda's branch in Somalia, is producing a series of documentary videos about jihadist warriors who came from the...
Friday 9 August 2013
The closure of UK bank accounts belonging to cash-transfer firms would force many people to find new ways of sending money...
Studying in Istanbul on a full government scholarship, Somali student Nur Hassan Bukhari is worried that attacks targeting Turkish interests could derail relations between the two...