By Osman H. Yusuf To refresh our memory, the idea of an indirect election based on a 4.5 clans power-sharing formula for troubled Somalia was meant to be a way of finding an acceptable temporary solution to long-standing mistrust among...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is offering $10 million for information leading to the arrest of two Americans in Somalia who are on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists List. The State Department says the rewards are $5 million each for al-Shabab members Omar...
CALGARY—As she was driving to a rally to raise awareness about violence against women, Amanda Lindhout started to have doubts about her plan to speak publicly for the first time about how she had been raped and tortured while...
The World Bank logo is seen at the 2023 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, U.S., April 13, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights By Giulia Paravicini and Rachel Savage Somalia is...
By Goth Mohamed Goth The international Crisis Group has published a new briefing on Somalia and Al-Shabaab, arguing that despite recent military gains, the Somali national government and its international supporters will never defeat Al-Shabaab unless they emulate some of the group's...
BY IBRAHIM MOHAMED AND VAHE MIRIKIAN Somalia’s Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble unveiled the timetable for indirect parliamentary and presidential elections. The timetable schedules elections for the upper house to take place on July 25 and the lower house between...
World Refugee Day comes at a time of a triple threat for Somalia – in addition to the COVID-19 pandemic, the country is dealing with effects of desert locusts and flooding MOGADISHU, Somalia, June 20, 2020/ -- Marking World Refugee...
The decision of the Somali Federal Government to use 4.5 power-sharing to elect a president in 2016 was made in the last week of January,  twenty-five years after the collapse of the state. It is a symbolic rather than...
By Ingeborg Vardøen While Somalia’s president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, and his men travel extensively to foreign countries, spending time and money for which they might have found better use, thousands of their fellow Somalis are forced to go on a...
Angela Kolongo 14.00 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} Press Release Mogadishu, June 5 2014: The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), through its Humanitarian Liaison Unit, today handed over four water wells to the Banadir Administration in Mogadishu....