Saadia Yasin Haji Samatar was elected as the first deputy speaker of Somalia’s House of the People (Lower House of the parliament) on Thursday. In a…
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About $1.4 billion in aid has been pledged in a donor conference organised in Geneva as drought threatens millions with starvation in Horn of Africa. The…
Abdi Hashi Abdullahi, the speaker of Somalia’s Senate, was re-elected in a vote held in the country’s capital, Mogadishu, on Tuesday. Many saw the re-election as…
Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Roble says he has authorized the African Union (A.U.) Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) to take over the security of the hangar…
Abdisaid Muse Ali, Somalia’s Foreign Minister, claims to have escaped an assassination attempt by regional government forces in the north-eastern state of Puntland. Ali said he…
Al-Shabaab, a Somali militant group, has claimed responsibility for a mortar attack on Somalia’s Parliament on Monday. A single mortar shell fell at the entrance of…
Ten journalists have been arrested and detained in Hargeisa, Somaliland, the self-declared independent region of Somalia, a press freedom lobby said on Thursday. The reporters working…
After a long-delayed and turbulent election process marked by a power tussle between the president and his prime minister, Somalia’s newly elected MPs have been sworn…
Somalia’s prime minister on Thursday expelled an African Union representative Francisco Madeira because of acts incompatible with his status though Somalia’s president rejected the order, signalling…
Al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group, has denied reports that it was plotting an attack on Somalia’s president and prime minister. Pro-al-Shabab Somali Memo website quoted an…