Tag: Somali

Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland will postpone its scheduled presidential election to next year, rather than holding it in November ...

Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre on Tuesday named a co-founder and spokesman of the Al-Shabaab as minister for religious ...

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Friday he had tested positive for COVID-19 and was in self-isolation.

Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud was elected as Somalia’s new President by the country’s legislators on Monday evening. Mahmoud is making a ...

 Somali politicians voted on Sunday for a new president despite explosions near the fortified airport hangar housing an overdue election ...

Somalia's Prime Minister on Thursday expelled the African Union representative because of acts incompatible with his status though Somalia's President ...

 It has not rained on Habiba Maow Iman's farm in southern Somalia for two years. Her animals are dead; her ...

When Somalia's biggest bomb blast killed more than 500 people in 2017, Dr. Ahmed Abdikadir Mohamed watched helplessly as many ...

Al Shabaab militants attacked several police stations and security checkpoints in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu early on Wednesday, officials and the ...

Somalia's president and prime minister each accused the other on Sunday of holding up ongoing parliamentary elections, in a spat ...

A Somali asylum-seeker was arrested by Italian police after he allegedly stabbed four women and a six-year-old child in the ...

Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mousa Faki Mahamat, has condemned the ongoing violence and looting in South Africa and ...

A suicide bomber killed six police officers in front of a district police station in the Somali capital Mogadishu late ...

Somali lawmakers voted unanimously on Saturday to cancel a two-year presidential term extension they had approved last month, after clashes ...

Somalia’s president, whose four-year term expired this month, should not take part in talks aimed at resolving a dispute that ...

Somali leaders have failed to end a stalemate over the selection of a new president scheduled for next week, government ...

Somali money transfer companies moved more than R60 million ($3.7 million) in cash between suspected weapons traffickers in recent years, ...

At least six prisoners were killed and another six injured when Somali security forces beat back an uprising in Mogadishu’s ...

Al Shabaab militants killed at least 12 Somali soldiers and briefly captured a military base southwest of the capital on ...

A Somali journalists' association Sunday slammed the actions of police who it said threatened to shoot reporters trying to access ...