Nairobi, October 9, 2012-Security agents in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland shuttered private broadcaster Horseed FM on Saturday morning and ordered Internet service providers in the region to block the station's website, according to local journalists.
"The strength of a...
By Ambassador Adam Jibril Muse
All autocratic politicians share one basic belief that they own the absolute truth on life, the rulers of Somalia today continue to behave accordingly, both Al-Itisam of Hasan Sheik Mohamoud and Al-Shabab live in on...
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Somalia is positioned on one of the busiest shipping routes in the world. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty
by Vava Tampa
Frantz Fanon once quipped: “Africa is shaped like a revolver, and Congo is the trigger.”
More than 60 years later, I think the...
Nairobi, May 1, 2015-Unidentified armed men on Wednesday night shot dead Somali journalist Daud Ali Omar at his home in Somalia, according to local journalists and news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities to identify the...
“My old shop was a stress shop”.
That is how Nuro Adan Ali, 33-year-old mother of eight children, felt about her shop in Somalia. She says:
IT WAS A STRESS SHOP BECAUSE I NEVER MADE ANY PROFIT. WHEN I STARTED, I...
By Michelle Gavin
As the foreign policy community continues to reflect on United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan and grapple with the failure of decades-long efforts to support political stability in the country, broad areas of consensus have emerged from the...
By Philippa McDonald
A new social media campaign has been launched to counter messages of extremism within the Australian Somali community.
Religious leaders and youth workers have teamed up with the Community Relations Commission to send a positive message to young...
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...