Mortar barrages target Somalia’s presidential compound
Somali security officials says mortar shells have struck Somalia’s presidential palace compound and nearby residential area on Thursday. Two mortars...
Category: Development
Somalia, Somaliland talks postponed
The Turkish-sponsored talks between Somalia’s central government and a breakaway region in northern Somalia were postponed few hours before it...
Puntland Marine Forces seize illegal migrants’ boat
Puntland marine forces captured scores of Ethiopian and Somali migrants in an operation off Bossaso coast on Wednesday, Speaking at...
Fifteen killed in central Somalia clash
Fifteen people were killed and several others injured in central Somalia’s Guricel town when government troops clashed with the moderate...
Prominent Somali scholar dies in the US
A Somali professor known his rich oral poetry writing and nationalism has died in New Jersy on Tuesday, aged 72,...
President Obama Nominates FSO Katherine S. Dhanani as First Ambassador to Somalia Since 1991
We have not seen the official announcement from the WH yet, but on February 24, Secretary Kerry released the following...
Joint statement by the UN, AU, EU, IGAD, UK and US Envoys to Somalia
The United Nations, African Union, European Union, Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), United Kingdom and the United States of America...
Somali troop training hampered by lack of housing and equipment, says EUTM chief
Brussels – Without basic housing and equipment for Somalia’s soldiers, the EU’s military training mission in that country will fail...
Firing squads, blast walls and dangerous diplomacy in Somalia
navy flak jacket over his sky-blue shirt, Neil Wigan peered through the bulletproof glass window at six uneven wooden poles...
Al-Shabaab Getting Publicity It Wanted, Somali Leaders Say
Local Somali leaders are worried about reaction to al-Shabaab’s recent video, calling for attacks on western malls such as Mall...
