Somalia’s Joint Police Programme (JPP), a joint policing model to strengthen peace and security at national and regional levels, has received 9 million U.S. dollars from Germany to support its projects. The UN-backed JPP supports the two-tier policing structure and...
8 February 2019 marks the end of the second year of President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo in office. During this period, Somalia suffered state political violence, deception, incompetence, recession, corruption; foreignpolicy disarray, lack of transparency, and deleterious egotism, which shattered the Somali social contract for reconciliation, peace, and...
A new fishing deal signed between the Somalia government and vessels tied to the China Overseas Fisheries Association raises serious questions. Some Somalis, particularly those in the fishing community, worry that their livelihoods will be gutted, while others fear...
Since the election of the new Somali President in 2017, the country’s relationship with the UAE has deteriorated steadily. The wealthy Gulf state seems determined to punish the war-torn coastal nation for refusing to take sides in its diplomatic...
A suicide car bomb exploded outside a military base for Ethiopian soldiers in southern Somalia on Saturday, leaving an unspecified number of casualties, a police official said. Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the assault and said it had...
For the last 2 years, the Somali people have been painfully struggling to cope with the shocking reality of leadership failure under President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo elected on high hope of him fostering the state-building project (not leading established...
Somalia is the most corrupt in the world, Denmark the least, while America's falling score is a 'red flag', according to a global corruption watchdog. Transparency International highlighted Hungary and the United States in their Corruption Perceptions Index for 2018,...
By BBC More by this Author Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has called Somalia a country with no state and which lacks “organised authority” in a televised speech in the capital, Kampala. He said Somalia was one example but stopped at naming other...
“Men may promise more in a day than they will fulfil in a year”. In the previous talks many pledges (secondary ones though) were taken but with discontented outcomes. Rumours about the resumption of Somalia - Somaliland talks, stalled since...
With police reports that the guns used by terrorists in Nairobi’s DusitD2 hotel complex attack belonged to Somalia government, Somaliland now wants any sale, or donation of military equipment to Mogadishu subjected to serious scrutiny. In a letter to the...