Somaliland’s President Ahmed Mohamed “Silyano” Mohamoud was sworn in as Somaliland’s 4th president on 27 Jul 2010 Hargeisa, Somaliland
Somaliland has been fighting for its independence for three decades. Its newly elected president, Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo, is in London to...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni wants the United Nations to provide funding and military support to rid Somalia of terrorists who claimed responsibility for the July 11 bombings that killed 76 people in the capital, Kampala.
A lack of resources constrains...
A Battle Over Precious Water
A dispute between Egypt and upstream African nations has brought to the fore a long-standing controversy over who has rights to the waters of the Nile. The outcome could have profound consequences for the ecological...
Members of Minneapolis’s Somali community left an Eid prayer at Masjid Dar Al-Hijrah on Tuesday. While many Somalis have thrived in the United States, criminal allegations have jolted the immigrant population.
MINNEAPOLIS — When the girl now identified as Jane...
UNITED NATIONS — A 16-year arms embargo against Somalia has been constantly violated with weapons mainly coming from Yemen and financed by Eritrea as well as Arab and Islamic donors, a UN report said Friday.
“Most serviceable weapons and almost...
The success rate of pirates operating off the coast of Somalia will fall to below 20 percent this year, from 63 percent in 2007, in part due to defensive measures cargo ships are taking, the United Nations said.
“The decrease...
Asmara – Eritrea’s Information minister Ali Abdu said a decision by the Heads of State and Government of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), a regional bloc to increase peacekeeping troop levels in Somalia, will plunge that country into...
Leila Kaddour-Boudadi, Translated by Chigba Njokanma
The Abba Garima manuscripts, kept in an Ethiopian monastery and until now considered to be from the 11th century, have made a journey back in time. Carbon-14 dating has revealed them to be from...
Ethiopia has reaffirmed that it will withdraw its forces from Somalia by the end of the month after confusion over its pullout dates.
Reporters in the Somali capital say residents in Mogadishu expected the troops to have gone by Friday,...
The Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday announced the end of a nearly three-month outbreak of Ebola that claimed six lives out of 12 known cases.
The outbreak, the DRC's 12th since the disease was first identified in 1976, was...
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