Iran’s state TV reports that the country’s navy has opened fire on pirates to foil an attack on an Iranian oil tanker near the Gulf of Aden. The late Sunday report says the Iranian navy rushed to the site earlier in the day after it received a distress signal from the tanker, which was under [...]
Puntland president Abdirahman Mohamed Farole has called on TFG and Kenyan troops battling Al-Shabaab rebel group in parts of Lower Juba to speed up their efforts to wrest control of the port city of Kismayo. President Farole was speaking at the 21st Meeting of the International Contact Group on Somalia in Djabouti. Farole said Al-Shaaba [...]
Unknown assailants on Sunday evening shot dead a village in Galkayo town, Mudug region, under unknown circumstances. Reports say the gunmen shot dead the deceased, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdulle, the head of Israa village on the northern side of the city. The assailants immediately fled the area. The identity and the motive of the gunmen are [...]
Internally displaced families in Buhodle town are complaining of harsh living conditions facing them as tension looms in the district. Doyow Gududow who is the chairman of the displaced families Buhodle town told Bar-kulan that they are facing harsh living conditions, a time tension between local clan militias and Somaliland troops is building up in [...]
The University of Kismayo has entered into a partnership with several Universities in Sudan. Under the agreement, Sudanese Universities will have close cooperation with the University of Kismayo and give recognition to the University as accredited University. The agreement covers further angles of cooperation in different areas such as academic research, student exchange programmes and [...]
The second patch of Somali students have today travelled to Turkey to pursue religious education after they were granted scholarship. Before their departure, a farewell ceremony was held in Mogadishu for the 220 students who qualified for the Turkish scholarship. Somalia’s Education Minister Abdinoor Sheikh Mohamed attended the send off ceremony. The plane carrying the [...]
Heads of Iranian and Somali Red Crescent societies on Saturday discussed second phase of Iran’s humanitarian aid to Mogadishu. Appreciating the emergency assistance of Iranian Red Crescent Society to Somali draught-stricken people, the head of Somali Red Crescent Society Ahmed M. Hassan, , said they intend to broaden their long-term cooperation with Iranian Red Crescent [...]
Somali Community in South Africa has hailed the recent assertion by the Somali prime minister that South Africa will re-open its embassy in Mogadishu after 20 years of absence. Somali prime minister was recently quoted as saying that South Africa will open its embassy in Mogadishu while Somalia will have its embassy in Pretoria. Some [...]
The Kenyan government has said that regional peace, crucial to Kenya’s tourism industry, is closer to realisation with the capture of strategic strongholds of the Al-Shabaab in Somalia. Kenyan Internal Security minister George Saitoti said Somalia’s stability is crucial to Kenya’s tourism industry, which has already suffered several setbacks due to Al-Shabaab’s penetration into Kenya. [...]
At least 13 people have been killed and several others wounded following a fierce fighting between TFG forces and Al-Shabaab rebel group on Saturday night at the border town of Luq, Gedo region, officials said. Mohamed Abdi, a TFG official in the region told Bar-kulan that armed rebel fighters launched a nighttime attack on a [...]
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