WATCH: Somali President affirms electoral process a milestone at a meeting with Uganda army...
Wednesday, January 04, 2017
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Car bomb outside UNDP HQ in Mogadishu kills 3
At least four people were wounded after a bomb concealed into a UN vehicle went off outside UNDP compound in Mogadishu on Wednesday morning,...
Somali president praises the ongoing electoral process
President Hassan Sheikh has termed the country’s ongoing electoral process as a major milestone for Somalia, adding that the country last witnessed elections in...
Arab League welcmes Somalia’s election process
Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit on Tuesday welcomed Somalia’s election process that culminated in a new parliament which was inaugurated on 27 December 2016.
He congratulated the...
AU, Somali troops recapture town in Southern Somalia from Al-Shabaab
Somali troops and African Union peacekeeping forces have taken control of a town in Bakool region from Al-Shabaab fighters during a major offensive on Tuesday, an...
Somali, AU forces retake settlement near Hudur city
Somali troops backed by African Union forces (AMISOM) have retaken control of a key village, located 30KM away from Hudur, the regional capital of...
Acute diarrhoea kills five, about 30 infected in Baidoa
An outbreak of acute diarrhea in Baidoa, the administrative capital of Southwest State and areas around the town, has killed at least five people...
SNA colonel killed in Mogadishu
Unidentified men armed with pistols have gunned down on Monday evening SNA colonel in Mogadishu, the latest in a string of assassinations of the government...
Somali forces removes 10 roadblocks in Lower Shabelle
Somali forces have pulled down road blocks in an operation aimed at easing transport and curtailing criminal networks which collect money from vehicles plying...
Hassan Sheikh announces his candidacy for president
The outgoing president of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has declared on Monday night his candidacy for presidency in the election scheduled in January, 2017, seeking...
Samatar blames Corrupt Govt for Escalating attacks
Prof Abdi Ismail Samatar has blamed the unpaid of the salaries for the serving security troops for increasing Al shabaab attacks in Mogadishu.
Prof Samatar...
Somalia needs $864 million dollars in urgent aid – UN
Humanitarian partners working in Somalia are seeking 864 million U.S. dollars to reach 3.9 million people with urgent life-saving assistance by the end of...
Somalia sets 11th January for the election of Lower House speaker
Somalia’s House Leadership election committee has officially released new parliament leadership poll dates for the 2017 Lower House leadership elections.
In a statement, Abdirahman Duale,...
Over 60 MP table motion against the decision of re-contesting of parliamentary seats
Over sixty newly elected member of Lower House have submitted motion to dismiss the recent decision to re-contest five seats which their results were...
Farmajo can’t lead Somalia, says elder
A Somali traditional elder Abdi Ahmed Ali said presidential candidate Mohamed Abdullah Farmajo has no a stable decisions that he could not lead Somalia...
A promising new year for Somalia, as the world ushers in 2017
From students to fish sellers, Somalis are ushering in the new year full of hope, for a more peaceful and economically robust country.
The horn...
Three killed in car bomb attack on peacekeepers’ Somali HQ
At least three people were killed when a suicide attacker set off a car bomb at a checkpoint outside the main base of an...
UPDATE:Al Shabaab group publicly executes an official in Southern Somalia
the Al Qaida-linked militant group Al Shabaab has publicly executed a senior official whom it accused of collaborating with Jubbaland state in Jilib district,...
Somalia ends 2016 with gloomy record of repression against journalists, says NUSOJ
Deadly attacks on reporters and their news outlets as well as a government campaign of repression under a new media law marked 2016 in...
Food aid reaches drought hit areas in Sool region
Following severe drought that hit many places in Somalia’s Sool region, the administration of Sool region have distributed rice, beans and vegetable oil for up to...