A medical doctor was killed and two of his family members injured when the vehicle they were travelling in was involved in a fatal road accident in Dila district, Awdal region on Sunday afternoon. The accident occurred when their Borame bound car overturned just few kilometres from Dila town, killing Abdirashid Sheikh Ali a medical [...]
Elders attending the constituent assembly in Mogadishu were told to speed up the selection process of delegates who are to endorse the draft constitution. Addressing the elders, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali urged the elder to speed up their selection process as the expiry of the deadline for such selection looms. He said the set [...]
A total of 1000 TFG and Ahlu Sunna soldiers were on Saturday passed out at a Military training camp on the outskirt of Dolow town on the Ethiopian side of the border. The pass out ceremony was attended by Ahlu Sunna, TFG and Ethiopian officials. Ahlu Sunna spokesman Mohamed Hussein Issack told Bar-kulan that the [...]
Mahas district authorities and traditional elders on Sunday held a meeting in Mahas town to discuss ways forward in stepping up security measures days after Al-Shabaab militant fighters pulled out of the town. The meeting was chaired by Mahas District Commissioner Mumin Mohamed Halane who was recently appointed by the Somali government. Halane said participants [...]
A senior United Nations relief official today urged the international community to build on the effective delivery of aid that helped roll back last year’s famine in Somalia, noting that about 2.5 million people in the Horn of Africa country remain in need of humanitarian support. Speaking at the end of a five-day visit to [...]
Kenyan police on Saturday released a photograph of a German citizen they suspect to have deep connections with Somalia based Al-Shabaab militant group. The suspect, who goes by the name Ahmed Khaled Mueller, is believed to have entered Kenya illegally. Deputy police spokesperson Julius Owino on Saturday urged the German national to report to the [...]
Over three thousand families fleeing the clashes between allied Kenyan, Somali and Ethiopian forces and Al-Shabaab militant group in southwest Somalia have reached the border towns of Beled-hawo along the Somali-Kenya common border, reports say. These families, mainly women, children and elderly people, who lost their livestock during the recently witnessed famine and drought related [...]
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was today signed between the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the UN Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS) and the Somali government to support enhancement of the situation of human rights in Somalia. According to a statement from the UNPOS, this MOU has been conceived in a [...]
A Liberian-flagged tanker has reportedly been hijacked today off the coast of Oman in the same general area of a violent but failed attack by a pirate action group yesterday. According to reports, a group of pirates have hijacked the MT Smyrni approximately 450NM South East of Salalah, Oman while transiting in the International Transit Corridor. [...]
The European Union has announced that it will scale up its Somali funding by €100 million to support the African Union Mission (AMISOM). The mission was expanded by the rehatting of Kenya Defence Forces early this year. The money will go towards meeting the increased salaries and wages needs of the regional peacekeeping unit necessitated [...]
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