Mo Farah and Djibouti president Ismail Omar Guelleh – Photo: HOL DJIBOUTI — Djibouti’s president Ismail Omar Guelleh has welcomed the British Somali-born athlete Mo Farah who won the 10,000m and 5,000m double at world championships into his presidential palace in Djibouti Monday Djibouti is set to host International Half Marathon with Mo Farah is among […]
Addis Ababa February 8, 2016 (SDN/QJ):- Germany will continue to be the key partner of Ethiopia in capacity building and in producing qualified professionals, announced German Ambassador to Ethiopia Joachim Schmidt. Speaking at the International Dean’s Course Africa Workshop held in Addis Ababa today, Ambassador Schmidt said his country will continue efforts of offering […]
BELGRADE, Serbia (SDN/QJ) — The Serb pilot who landed a jetliner in Somalia with a gaping hole in its fuselage said Sunday he never doubted that it was caused by a bomb and described the security surround the airplane at Mogadishu Airport as “zero.” A suicide bomber is suspected to have set off the […]
Somali government said for the first time Saturday that a bomb had caused an explosion in a passenger plane that made an emergency landing on Tuesday. Daallo Airlines flight to Djibouti was forced to make an emergency landing after an explosion in mid-air blew a gaping hole on the plane’s side and killed one passenger. […]
Suspect and 73 other passengers meant to board Turkish Airlines flight, which was cancelled, Daallo Airlines chief says. The suspected suicide bomber who blew himself up aboard a Somali airliner on a flight from Mogadishu to Djibouti was meant to board a Turkish Airlines flight, the head of Daallo Airlines told Al Jazeera. The explosion […]
MOGADISHU — Fighters from the Al-Qaeda linked Al Shbaab group seized the southern Somali town of Marka after the African Union forces who controlled the town for more than three years withdrew, residents said Friday. The AU force’ withdrawal comes few hours after Somali troops abandoned their bases in the town in what officials pointed […]
ASMARA, Eritrea—On a cool March evening soon after his 16th birthday, Binyam Abraham waited until his mother and young siblings were sleeping and slipped away to begin the long trek toward Eritrea’s southern border. With his father trapped in open-ended military service that would soon snare him, too, Binyam walked for 19 hours without food […]
Isak amin who display a stunning amount of talent and creativity on his way to having a successful career in photography a fact which shows in his ability to capture a story in one photograph. Isak’s work is often meant to make a strong emotional connection with the viewer he begun this career for the last 2 years and […]
A Report by the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) This report outlines Somaliland’s historical development and the clan structures existing in Somaliland. It furthermore sheds light on Somaliland’s plural legal system and reflects upon it from a women’s rights perspective. It touches upon the existing engendered gerontocracy and the accompanying […]
Investigators suspect the Al Shabaab militant group was behind a likely bomb blast that forced an Airbus A321 into an emergency landing this week in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, U.S. government sources said Wednesday. One U.S. government source said investigators believe the Islamic militant group Al Shabaab perpetrated the attack. However, officials said that […]