Somali President, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo will command the ongoing preparations of Somali military to advance on Al-shabab controlled areas, Defense ministry said on Saturday. Mohamed Mursal Sheikh, Defense minister said President Farmajo has reformed the military leadership during his stay at the ministry last week. Mursal noted that the president would spearhead the...

Saudi Arabia has offered to mediate a rift between Somalia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over a Berber Port deal in Somaliland, according to Garowe Online. Somalia submitted a complaint to the Arab League over a controversial $422 million deal between the UAE port operator DP World, Ethiopia and Somaliland at the Berbera port on the grounds that it was been made without...

Clashes in central Somalia between Somali army troops and al-Shabab militants have left at least 12 people dead, witnesses say. The clashes Thursday started after armed al-Shabab members tried to impose taxes on residents of villages around the town of Mahas, in the Hiran region. Resident Dahir Muse Osoble told VOA Somali that government soldiers backing cattle herders...

IOM, the UN Migration Agency, with support from the Government of Japan has completed the distribution of 150 solar lanterns to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Galkayo, a district in the north-central Mudug region of Somalia, and Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital city. According to IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), there are over two million...

A 16 year old Student in Somalia´s  Hirshabelle State is shocked at his appointment as a Deputy District Commissioner, Hirshabelle State Hirshabelle’s Minister for Internal affairs Mohamed Ali Adle appointed Feisal Abdullahi Omar to be the second highest ranking government officer in Gambole but has expressed his reservations “I am still a student a student in Sheikh...

he United Nations, African Union, European Union, Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, Ethiopia, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States are extremely concerned by recent political and security developments in Mogadishu that risk derailing hard-earned political, economic, and security achievements and tarnishing the reputation of Somalia. The international...

Somali Lower house Speaker, Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawari said the government forces have taken over parliament amid looming poltical crisis. Speaking at the press conference, Jawari accused of Prime Minister, Hassan Ali Kheire of engineering the raid on the parliament premises. “The debate on the motion against me must be held in a difference place since the the government...

ADDIS ABABA, March 16 (Xinhua) — The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Ethiopia disclosed on Friday it has registered 15,097 new refugees in the first two months of 2018, pushing the number of refugees in Ethiopia to 909,301 by February 28. UNHCR said most of the registered refugees during the first two months of 2018 were from South Sudan and...

Unidentified gunmen on Saturday killed a well known traditional elder in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Family members who confirmed the attack told Hiiraan Online that Ahmed Abdulle Jim’ale was hit by several gunshots fired by unknown gunmen. Jim’ale was taken to Erdogan Hospital in Mogadishu where he succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment. The assailants...