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Somalia’s government on Saturday blamed the Saudi-led coalition for Friday’s attack on a boat that killed at least 42 Somali refugees off the coast of war-torn Yemen, calling the assault by a military vessel and a helicopter gunship “horrific”. Somalia urged t... More »
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday made a historic visit to Somalia meeting the Kenyan troops serving under the African Union Mission at Dhobley Military in Somalia The Commander-in-Chief, who was dressed in full military gear, thanked the troops them for th... More »
Boat carrying refugees was travelling to Sudan when it was hit by airstrike from Apache helicopter, coastguard says Thirty-one Somali refugees were killed off the coast of Yemen when a helicopter attacked the boat they were travelling in, a coastguard in the H... More »
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday on a surprise visit. Mr. Johnson met with Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo to discuss the worsening drought amid warnings from aid groups that Somalia is at ... More »
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has landed in Somalia on what he calls an emergency visit to focus on famine. The U.N. chief announced his Tuesday morning arrival in the Horn of Africa nation on Twitter, saying that “people are dying. The wor... More »
Somali Parliamentarians have voted unanimously to approve Hassan Ali Khaire as Prime Minister of Somalia on Wednesday afternoon. In total, 231 MPs gave their nod of approval to the Presidents first pick for PM. In a tweet sent by the PM’s office, Hassan Ali Kh... More »
President Farmajo announced on Thursday morning that he has appointed Hassan Ali Khaire as Somalia’s Prime Minister. Mr. Khaire lived in Norway in from 1989 and is a dual Somali-Norwegian citizen. He is an aid worker who spent over a decade working with the No... More »
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s new President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has been inaugurated while promising to restore dignity to the troubled Horn of Africa nation. Mohamed was elected earlier this month in a step toward Somalia’s first fully functioning cent... More »
The International Monetary Fund says creditors may forgive part of Somalia’s outstanding $5.3 billion debt if the strife-torn Horn of Africa state takes concrete steps toward reforming its economy and improving governance. Somalia, gripped by a three-decade ci... More »
Somalia (AP) — A commander of Somalia’s Islamic extremist rebels denounced said the country’s recent election of a new president and vowed to continue fighting the government, the first official comment from al-Shabab since the president’s election earlier thi... More »
A truck bomb detonated at a busy intersection in Mogadishu’s Wadajir district ripped through Kawa-Godey market just after Dhuhr prayers killing at least 35 and injuring scores more. A police official, Capt. Mohamed Hussein told reporters that a car bomb explod... More »
Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo visited his future residence today where he was welcomed by former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. The pair held their first meeting behind closed doors where they discussed details of the transition. Hassan Sheikh M... More »