Somalia

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...

The international community at large have eye witnessed the misery of Somalia ever since from the collapse of Siyad Barre regime in 1991. The...

Had the latest attack that targeted the Turkish embassy in the Somali capital of Mogadishu achieved its desired damage, losses would have been far...

book review: Most of Fergusson’s book explores the reaction of Somalia to outside intervention, which he concludes doesn’t curb famine or violence. When James Fergusson,...

    Overzealous Western banks threaten to choke off Somalia's struggling recovery by targeting the Hawala transfer system. Columbus, Ohio - Every month I visit a...