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Attempts to oust Souleiman Waberi as the president of the Djibouti football federation (FDF) reached a dramatic climax on Monday as police occupied the federation’s headquarters after a group of club presidents called an extraordinary general assembly aimed at
‘Why don’t you just drive your tuk-tuk and do your work?” the judge asked me after videos from my social media accounts were shown during my court hearing. I had spoken on TikTok and Facebook about issues in Somalia that concerned me: forced evictions in the c
Mogadishu (HOL) — The National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) killed former leader of al-Shabab’s security wing, Bashir Ahmed Haji Nunow, during a planned operation in Jilib district.
Hargeisa (HOL) — Taiwan has provided $1 million to Somaliland to support dialysis equipment and services for patients suffering from kidney disease, officials said this week.
Mogadishu (HOL) — Nearly 600 health facilities across Somalia were at risk of closure because of a decline in health funding, Health and Social Care Minister Dr. Ali Haji Adan said Tuesday.
Hargeisa (HOL) — A Hargeisa district court on Tuesday sentenced writer Adan Sahan to three years in prison after he was accused of offending religion over remarks he made during a television interview.
KARACHI: The final three Pakistani survivors of an oil tanker hijacked by Somali pirates will return home on Wednesday, their families and officials said, ending a more than five-month ordeal that left five crew members dead and underscored a resurgence of pir
A shooting that prompted an evacuation at Eden Prairie High School’s Friday night football game has again stoked concern in the Twin Cities about gang violence — specifically about the attacks between rival factions in the Somali community.
Four Indonesian seamen who were kidnapped and held hostage by Somali pirates aboard an oil tanker for more than five months arrived back home on Tuesday, an AFP reporter saw.
The African Union Commission said Sunday that it had not intended to blame Egypt or any neighboring country for developments inside Ethiopia after Cairo objected to an earlier statement by the body on regional tensions.
Minnesota (HOL) — Two Somali teenagers were wounded in a gang-related shooting outside a Minnesota high school during a homecoming football game.
Kenya has confirmed its first ever case of Ebola - a Kenyan citizen who has been living in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the past seven years.
Somalia has spent the past several years trying to reposition itself from an arena of regional competition into an increasingly consequential geopolitical actor.
A country’s history can be told through the rise and fall of governments, the fortunes of political leaders and the conflicts that redraw its social landscape. It can also be understood through the life of a child trying to remain in school while the world aro
All seven Pakistani crew members who survived a pirate attack off Somalia’s coast have been rescued, Pakistan’s foreign minister said Monday.
Addis Ababa (HOL) — Somali Regional State President Mustafe Mohamud Omar praised Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s leadership after his reelection, saying his administration helped move the region from years of conflict and repression toward greater stability and po
Nairobi (HOL) — The Somali Red Crescent Society (SRCS) is training 72 people, including 60 community volunteers, to respond to expected El Niño-related flooding along Somalia’s Juba and Shabelle rivers, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) annou
Addis Ababa (HOL) — Former Finance Minister Ahmed Shide was elected speaker of Ethiopia’s House of Peoples’ Representatives on Monday, becoming the first ethnic Somali to lead the country’s lower chamber of parliament.
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has insisted that his landlocked country must have access to the Red Sea, even as neighbouring countries have said responsibility for the sea rests with the states along its shores.
On the rickshaw ride to the hospital, Marian Haji Abdi Guled felt a mixture of joy and apprehension: the day they had been waiting for had finally arrived.
ISLAMABAD: Four Pakistani sailors freed from a tanker held by Somali pirates are scheduled to return home tomorrow, Saturday, Pakistan’s foreign minister said Friday, as authorities arrange the repatriation of three compatriots killed during the ordeal.
Cairo, Egypt (HOL) — Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met Saturday in Alamein city to discuss Somalia’s internal situation and security issues in the Horn of Africa.
When the Somali state collapsed in 1991, the formal banking system collapsed with it. For the next two decades, money moved through hawala networks, informal transfer businesses that carried diaspora remittances to households, financed imports and kept domesti
Arusha, Tanzania (HOL)— Somali Parliament Speaker Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur chaired the 21st meeting of the East African Community Speakers’ Bureau in Arusha, Tanzania, on Friday, as regional lawmakers discussed parliamentary cooperation and integration.
Cairo (HOL) — Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud arrived in Egypt’s Al-Alamein city to attend high-level meetings and conferences focused on economic cooperation, investment and development in Africa.
The first Alamein Africa Forum opened Friday in the northern Egyptian coastal city of El Alamein, bringing together around 1,500 African business leaders to discuss investment, trade and economic cooperation.
More than 500 Somalis in Minnesota have been ordered deported this year as the Trump administration speeds up asylum hearings and narrows paths to legal protection.
Mogadishu (HOL) — Ethiopia is preparing to withdraw more than 3,000 troops from neighboring Somalia as renewed fighting at home puts pressure on Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government, Bloomberg reported this week.
US airstrikes and operations by the US-led coalition killed or wounded at least 3,336 civilians in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Somalia between 2007 and May 2025, according to an investigation supported by Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ).
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will provide Rs12.5 million ($44,000) and a house to each of the families of three Pakistani sailors killed during the recovery of a hijacked oil tanker off Somalia, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s office said on Friday.