50 Years On, President Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke’s Killing Remains A Mystery

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5 decades ago today,  the former democratically-elected president of Somalia Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke was assassinated by a body guard while visiting the town of...

Somalia: Al-Shabab claims Kenyan hostage's execution

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Somalia's al-Shabab fighters claim to have executed a captured Kenyan soldier and have repeated threats to kill five other hostages. The claim of the al-Qaeda-linked...

Foreign HE outposts – Navigating opportunities and risks

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Institutional and programme mobility from the developed to the developing world is a phenomenon that continues to attract research interest within the broader field...

The Horn of Africa: The challenges Ahead

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The Horn of Africa was and is a region of utmost importance throughout the ages from time immemorial. It is where man first crossed...

Somali leaders walk ‘back from the brink’, resume talks on critical elections

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James Swan, UN Special Representative for Somalia and head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), said it is imperative that the...

Somalia parades four Al Shabaab ‘brides’ in military court

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A photo combination of video frame grab images of the four women arrested and arraigned in a military court in Mogadishu, Somalia, based on...

The Silver lining in Kenyan desire to shut down Dadab Refugee Camp

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The Kenyan decision to shut down the world’s largest refugee camp of Dadab, despite all the outcries from international humanitarian organizations, is a huge...

Egypt allegedly supplies weapons to Somalia

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In defiance to UN embargo By Birhanu Fikade Egypt, which has been at loggerheads with Ethiopia over the hydroelectric dam project the latter is building over the...

Somalia: Solar lights protect against sex attacks

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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) Chatting women sitting outside makeshift homes at night is a new scene in a once-dark refugee camp in the Somali capital....