Suicide attackers set off two car bombs at a hotel near the headquarters of Somalia’s Criminal Investigations Department in Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least 17 people, police said.
Guards at Hotel Sahafi and CID officers opened fire after the...
The political reforms in the Horn of Africa has been rapidly changed in the geopolitics in the region. The original horn of Africa or Somali peninsula situated in Northern East of Africa are Somalia, Somaliland, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Eritrea. It covers...
Cash is revolutionising the way that humanitarian aid is being delivered. Somalia is a prime example of this, where in coordination with donors such as European Commission’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid department (ECHO) and Irish Aid, Concern is...
By Liban Ahmad
The election of Abdikarim Guled as president of the expanded and institutionally more inclusive Galmudug state is political development that can reverse the trend of under-development in South Mudug and Galguduud. It should not be a cause...
Somalia is among the many African countries who have benefited from remittance from their Diaspora population. The existence of remittances economy in Somalia was boosted by two main factors: the rapid growth of a migrant workforce from the early...
By Mohamed Obsiye
The Heritage Institute convened in Djibouti between 14 – 18 December 2018 a conference themed debating the impact of the Ethiopian reforms on the Somalis. However, the question of the status of Somaliland came to occupy a...
People expect Farmajo to take the nation back to the days when it was cited as an example of democracy and good governance in Africa
Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, also known as Farmajo, attends his inauguration ceremony in Mogadishu,...
Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the terror attack in Nairobi in which scores of people were killed and injured. The question the terror attack raises is why the group continues to target Kenya. The Conversation Africa’s Moina Spooner and Julius Maina spoke to...
In December 2016, Somalilanders initiated a Twitter campaign to vent their frustration about tweets from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM). UNSOM tweeted about Somaliland’s participation in Somalia’s election, which led many Somalilanders to post about the...
The Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Somaliland, today, expressed its solidarity with the United Nations offices in Somaliland/Somalia, and, particular, with Mr. Nicholas Haysom, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General who had been declared persona non grata by the Mogadishu administration Tuesday.
The...