Somalia: Government Imposes a Night Curfew in Mogadishu

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Mogadishu, Monday, April 13, 2020— After holding a press conference in Mogadishu, Somali police commander; General Abdi Hassan Mohamed (Hajar), Sunday announced that the Somali...

Somali engineer creates home-made respirator to ease country’s COVID-19 crisis

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Sunday, May 3, 2020 Somalia receives a boost in fight against COVID-19 in the form of home-made mechanised respirators, created by 21-year-old Mogadishu-based mechanical engineer. https://youtu.be/FAXHghe8TRc?t=3 function...

Girls in Somalia subjected to door-to-door FGM

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Girls in Somalia, forced to stay at home due to COVID-19, are now undergoing Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in their homes. “The lockdown is being...

UK and Somalia fighting the effects of climate change

floods In Beledweyn, Central Somalia
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  By Ben Fender and Damon Bristow It is a quarter of a century since the UN first proposed a special day to call for action...

Time to Stop the Syphoning of Humanitarian Aid

Children receive a meal at a school through the World Food Programme (WFP) in the drought-hit Baligubadle village near Hargeisa, the capital city of Somaliland, in this handout picture provided by The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies on March 15, 2017.
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Somalis living abroad have taken to raising funds to help family and friends cope with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, amidst claims from a recent...

Somali leaders strike elections deal

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By ABDULKADIR KHALIF More by this Author Somalia's political leaders have finally agreed on a poll model that involves electoral caucuses.  As part of the agreement, each...

State Department’s Disingenuous Defiance of Congress on Somalia

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Andre should remember: The State Department executes policy, but Congress crafts it- Michael Rubin On Dec. 23, U.S. President Joe Biden signed the Fiscal 2023...

Has Federalism in Somalia Prevented The Rise Of Dictatorship?

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The only Somali constitution adopted through a universal vote was the Somali constitution of 1960 which defined the first Somali republic as an independent,...

The way out of Somalia’s political impasse

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Security forces block a street with an armoured personnel carrier during protests against the government and the delay of the country's election in the...

UN-Habitat and Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) partner in cash transfer initiative to cushion Kismayo residents from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

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250 households will each receive a total of USD 210 over a three – month period to support their families KISMAYO, Somalia, April 14, 2021/APO...