An invasion of crop pests in southern Somalia’s Bardhere district is threatening to wipe out farmers’ yields at a time of fragile food security in many parts of the country.
Farmers and local authorities say over 1,200 farms in Bardhere...
Somalia/Eritrea Monitoring Group's (SEMG's) 2018 reports on Somalia and Eritrea, which have recently been made public. While the SEMG's reporting on Eritrea was very much eclipsed by the (positive) political developments in the region, the Somalia report is the...
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...
Africa’s big cats are being trafficked to rich households in the Middle East who want ‘something more exotic’
Dubai — Campaigners are calling for urgent cross- border action to halt the illegal trafficking of cheetah cubs from the Horn of Africa...
The events unfolding in the last few days, including the divisions among the stakeholders, ahead of the upcoming presidential election in Somalia’s Southwest State have the potential to lead to violence.
The United Nations Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) calls on...
My purpose in this article is to illustrate the balance of power or the collaborative relationship between the Federal Government (FG) and Federal Member States (FMS) of the Federal Republic of Somalia (FRS) on the basis of the Provisional Constitution...
As always in Somali politics, those with a vested interest in political power will introduce confusion from different and often unrelated issues, to delay elections. Currently the States versus Federal issue is threatening to dominate and consume all political...
By Hassan Mohamed
Revenge killings are a common feature amongst nomads everywhere in the world, including Somalia's myriad clans that often fuelling a complex web of the unstoppable circle of violence.
In the past few weeks, such clan feud has left...
New York, October 29, 2018--A lack of justice in the murders of journalists creates an entrenched climate of censorship, the Committee to Protect Journalists found in its Global Impunity Index released today. The eleventh annual report highlights countries where journalists are...
Tech entrepreneurs in Somalia are holding a first ever summit in battle-scarred Mogadishu, attracting hundreds to talk about business and innovation in a city more used to conflict and suffering.
The three-day event that began Tuesday was conceived by a...