IN OCTOBER 2013 the Seaman Guard Ohio, a Sierra Leone-flagged ship, was intercepted just under 11 nautical miles off the coast of India by the local coastguard. The grey-hulled vessel looked like a naval ship—bristling with antennae and radar—but was chartered by AdvanFort, a private security firm based in Washington, DC. It had 35 crew […]
DADAAB, Kenya (Reuters) – The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR is planning for as many as 50,000 Somalis to return home this year from a Kenyan camp that is now home to 350,000 people, but that figure may not be reached given concerns many refugees still have about problems back home. About 6,000 Somalis returned […]
Mogadishu (AFP) – A car bomb exploded at a popular seaside restaurant in the Somali capital Thursday, with intense gunfire following the blast, police said. The casualty toll was not immediately known. “There was a car bomb explosion at a restaurant at the Lido beach,” police officer Ahmed Bidan said, reporting “shooting and gunfire” immediately […]
HARGEISA— Somaliland foreign minister, Sa’ad Ali Shire said on Wednesday that the government plans to dispatch a delegation to Ethiopia to help the quest of an international recognition at the African Union leaders who are gathering in Addis Ababa for their summit. The delegation from Somaliland is expected to table Somaliland’s agenda at the African Union summit […]
The Media wing of Al-Shabaab, Al Kataa’ib, posted heart-wrenching images of the dead, the dying and the captured military hardware at El Adde garrison in Gedo region, Somalia, on last Friday’s dawn attack. Al Kataa’ib published 134 pictures of the devastation that was left behind by the attack establishing how the Kenyan Defence Forces manning the […]
Lul Hersi sat in her idling minivan at a stoplight in downtown St. Cloud. Her window was rolled down to invite in the evening summer breeze, her phone tucked in her hijab, against her ear, like a makeshift Bluetooth receiver. “Hey, you!” a woman’s voice suddenly brayed from the next car. “Hey, you! I’m talking […]
Dahir Ali – Somali Returnee from Minnesota Expatriates returning to Somalia are setting up homes in a new high-end complex just 7 kilometres outside Mogadishu. The 20 million dollars Daru Salaam estate is seen as offering commercial returns and helping rebuild the nation.
During daybreak simultaneous operations against the Oromo community on Tuesday in some towns in Somaliland. These operations against the Oromo community took place on the streets, in the markets in their dwelling places and at their work places. The reason behind their arrest is said to be not having legitimate residence in Somaliland and occupying […]
Below is an article titled “Somaliland: The 55th State of the continent” published by a French newspaper known as 54etats on August 27, 2015. In this article the newspaper references to an article titled “Unrecognized Somaliland is Beyond the Pale” written by UK-based Somaliland-born political analyst Mohamed Hagi Mohamoud. Below is the Google translated article […]
Somalia received a pledge of aid for $50 million from Saudi Arabia this month on the same day it announced it was cutting ties with Saudi rival Iran, a document seen by Reuters showed. The government, which did not confirm or deny the pledge, has said there was no link between long-running Saudi financial support […]