News Somalia: Somalia: Puntland President names third Governor, Commander for Nugal in Year-and-a-Half
GAROWE, Somalia, September 17, 2015 (Garowe Online)-The President of Somalia’s Puntland Government Abdiweli Mohamed Ali has named the third governor and regional police commander for northeastern ...
News Somalia: Women Break Gender Barriers in Somalia’s Construction Industry
Some women in Somalia have found work in its male-dominated construction industry, proving that skill, not gender, determines success. Women employees want to become mentors and role models in their ...
News Somalia: Somali Success Stories Conference Celebrates the Growth of the Nation’s Fintech Industry
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Highlighting the rapid development of Somalia’s financial technology sector, the third annual Somali Success Stories Conference concluded on October 17 at Sahal Hall in Mogadishu.
News Somalia: Hormuud Telecom Highlights Role in Driving Somalia’s Digital Market Transformation
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s largest privately owned telecommunications provider, Hormuud Telecom, underscored its role as a digital market pioneer in a message shared on its official X (formerly ...
News Somalia: Somalia: Mogadishu's main market closed over tax hikes
MOGADISHU, Somalia - The businesses in Mogadishu's main Bakara market closed on Sunday in a protest of new taxes imposed by the Finance Ministry of Somalia's Federal government, Garowe Online report ...
News Somalia: Rising Above Displacement: A Young Girl’s Vision to Improve Learning in Somalia’s Marginalized Communities
Aisha Nuur Hassan, a teenaged Somali girl, is pursuing a diploma in education at Banaadir College after receiving a World Bank-funded Rajo Kaaba scholarship. She is one of 2,278 Somali girls empowered by the project to pursue higher education.
News Somalia: Somalia’s Federal Fracture: The Sanaag Standoff and Khatumo’s Cost
EDITORIAL | In the windswept reaches of northern Somalia, where clan ties and regional pride collide with the fragile scaffolding of federalism, the creation of Khatumo State has sparked a firestorm.
News Somalia: AU forces to distribute medical supplies in Lower Shebelle region
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Communities in Lower Shabelle region are set to benefit from medical supplies and consumables, following a donation that was handed to the African Union Mission troops working in ...
News Somalia: Somalia banks on Arab League in Al-Shabaab war
MOGADISHU, Somalia - The Arab League countries should invest in the fight against violent extremism in Somalia, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said, while referring to declining support from Western ...
News Somalia: Somalia banks on diplomacy in solving conflict with Ethiopia
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia may pick the diplomatic channels in solving outstanding issues with Ethiopia, following the latest decision by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to engage regional allies ...
News Somalia: Somalia banks on fisheries week to unleash Blue Economy boom
Somalia's Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre and Minister of Fisheries and Blue Economy Ahmed Hassan Adan during the inauguration of the Fisheries Week on July 4, 2024. [Courtesy, OPM, X] Somalia is now ...
News Somalia: In Hunt for Funds, Somalia Found Trouble
When Somalia's government wanted to rebuild the country's war-shattered economy in 2009, it hired lawyers to recover what it believed was more than $100 million of government funds frozen by foreign ...
News Somalia: Minister of Environment Secures a $100 Million Green Climate Fund-Somalia Partnership to Combat Climate Change
Mogadishu, Somalia – Under the stewardship of Somalia's Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Khadija Mohamed Al-Makhzoumi, a groundbreaking $100 million investment partnership has been launched ...
News Somalia: Somalia warns against any Israeli base plans on Somaliland
Somali minister tells Al Jazeera Israeli base plans in Somaliland risk dragging Somalia into ‘external confrontations’.
News Somalia: Somalia shows interest in acquiring JF-17 fighters from Pakistan
Recent reports indicate Somalia is negotiating with Pakistan to purchase 24 JF-17 Block III fighter jets, following Somali Air Force Commander Mohamud Sheikh ...
News Somalia: Al-Shabaab seizes key town as Somalia marks 65 years of independence
Even as Somalia celebrates its 65th independence day, the country continues to lose strategic towns to Al-Shabaab fighters, in yet another indication of struggles on the frontlines over the last three ...
News Somalia: Twin operations in Somalia kill more than 22 al-Shabaab terrorists
MOGADISHU, Somalia . The Somali National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) said Saturday that it carried out twin operations against the al-Shabaab terror group in the centr ...
News Somalia: Somalia denies U.S. allegation that it destroyed food aid warehouse
The U.S. State Department said Wednesday that it has suspended all assistance from Washington to Somalia’s federal government over the allegations, saying the Trump administration has "a zero-tolerance policy for waste, theft and diversion of life-saving assistance.”
