At least five people were killed and four wounded when a car bomb exploded in the Somali capital on Saturday, a police officer said.
A second explosion followed nearby but the cause has yet to be determined, Major Mohamed Hussein...
Mogadishu, 22 December 2018 – The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has strongly condemned the simultaneous bomb attacks, which occurred last night and today morning in Mogadishu.
The three attacks by Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (VBIED) targeted civilians and...
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...
Somalia, easternmost country of Africa, on the Horn of Africa. It extends from just south of the Equator northward to the Gulf of Aden and occupies an important geopolitical position between sub-Saharan Africa and the countries of Arabia and...
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...
The Secret History of Al-Qaeda’s Most Powerful Ally by Harun Maruf and Dan Joseph
by Liban Obsiye
Saturday, December 15, 2018
This is one of those rare books that simply focuses on the subject from the beginning and keeps readers captivated. There is...
Mogadishu – December 15, 2018: The Special representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia (SRCC) and Head of AMISOM, Ambassador Francisco Madeira, has been following closely the events in South West State of Somalia that...
The parents of the late Yuusuf Abdisalaan Ali was 24 years old Somaliland national who passed away last week in the cruel hands of human traffickers in Tripoli, Libya are calling for a decent burial of their deceased son.
The...
Ever since the midterm election, conservative media in the United States have targeted with special zeal Ilhan Omar, an incoming Somali-American Democratic congresswoman and a devout Muslim who wears hijab.
In response to Democrats’ push to remove a headwear ban...
By Arno Maierbrugger
Somalia, the troubled land at the Horn of Africa with one of the most homogeneous Muslim populations in the world, is believed to benefit from the strong footprint Islamic finance is currently setting in East Africa. The...