HARGEISA—- Students At Mohamoud Ahmed Ali State secondary school on Monday trooped to the streets to protest against high school fees in state-owned institutions. They said they chose to stage the protest in order to send a message that all was not well in the state and to kick against “bad government policies” in education sector. The […]
The U.S. military denies reports from residents and rebels in southwestern Somalia that a suspected U.S. drone with six missiles crashed Monday in a rebel-held village in the Gedo region. Spokesman for the U.S. Africa Command, Chuck Prichard, said all their “assets in this area are accounted for and we have no indication that any […]
Former Minister of Defense Muhyadin Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Muhyadin Mohamed Haji Ibrahim, the former Defense Minister during the government of PM Nuur Adde was today killed in an explosion near the Turkish Embassy at KM4 Junction in Mogadishu. His family and acquaintances told the media that the explosion resulted from an explosive device that was planted […]
MOGADISHU —The Al-Qaeda linked Al Shabab group in Somalia claimed that its fighters seized a US drone with missiles which crashed in a rebel-held village in south-western Somalia Monday. US military often fly the unmanned drones over Somalia’s airspace as part of its fight against Islamist militants fighting Somali government and the African Union forces. […]
Edward Wanyonyi FOR the outsider, “Somali” connotes anarchy and chaos and Mogadishu’s Bakaara market (made famous in the movie “Black Hawk Down”) depicts the traumatic failure of US Special Forces in a botched operation in 1993. However, Somaliland’s relative peace and stability over the past two decades plus, and its democratic elections, place it on […]
This year, the armed Islamist extremist group Al-Shabaab has notched up a series of bloody successes against both Somali targets and the African Union peace-enforcement mission AMISOM. Meanwhile, the international community has been busy cajoling principals of the Somali federal and state governments into agreeing on the means by which to hold new elections due […]
Two consecutive seasons of drought across northern Somalia are driving tens of thousands of pastoralists into hunger and debt. Abdilahi Mohamed had 20 cattle in August. Only five now survive. He herded his animals 250 kilometers – from his home in Faraweyne to Banka Geriyaad, northwest of Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland region – in the […]
MOGADISHU — The breakaway northern Somali region of Somaliland announced its beefing up security for its airports in the wake of a recent bombing on a Somali airliner which has made an emergency landing at the Mogadishu airport last week. A suspected suicide bomber blew a hole in the fuselage of a Daallo Airlines plane, […]
A woman will lead the United Arab Emirates’ attempt to secure happiness for its citizens after being named the country’s first ever minister of state for happiness. Ohood Al Roumi’s appointment to the position was announced on Wednesday via Twitter by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the prime minister, ruler of Dubai and the […]
Djibouti — Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh is in the sights of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the Ghana News Agency has been exclusively told. The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) is monitoring events in the country where violence is currently escalating before the presidential election in May. President Guelleh, who is […]