TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hosted Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Ankara on Friday for a high-level meeting focused…
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CONSTRUCTION is booming in Somalia’s capital city and as Mogadishu literally rises from the ashes of its violent past it…
THREE African football legends – Samuel Eto’o, Emmanuel Adebayor and Jay-Jay Okocha – took to the pitch in Somalia on…
SOMALIA’s breakaway region of Somaliland has rejected an attempt by the central government to give the US exclusive control of…
ARMED Militants have stormed a hotel in the city of Beledweyne in central Somalia, and a siege is ongoing, police…
THE diplomatic dispute between Ethiopia and Somalia that had led to tense regional relations has been resolved, Somalia’s foreign minister…
ETHIOPIA and Somalia have agreed to end their bitter dispute over Addis Ababa’s plans to build a port in the…
OUTRAGE has erupted on social media after Somalia’s Family Minister Gen Bashir Mohamed Jama shared photos on X of himself…
THE leaders of Egypt, Somalia and Eritrea – countries which all have strained relations with Ethiopia – have been meeting…
AN Egyptian ship has delivered a significant consignment of military equipment to Somalia, security officials in the capital, Mogadishu, are…
A MILITARY alliance between Somalia and Egypt is ruffling feathers in the fragile Horn of Africa, upsetting Ethiopia in particular…
THE Horn of Africa would experience below-average rainfall during the October-December season, potentially leading to drought conditions, international agencies warned…
AT least 32 people have been killed and many more wounded in a suicide bombing and gun attack on a…
AT least 25 people were killed during Islamist terrorist attacks on four army bases in central Somalia on Saturday, officials…
SOMALIA has won a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council – hailed as a significant step for the…
MILITANTS from the al-Shabab group have attacked a hotel near the presidential palace in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, security sources and…
A MILITARY court in Somalia has sentenced six Islamic State fighters from Morocco to death. The men will be executed…
SECURITY forces in Somalia’s north-eastern Puntland region on Sunday arrested Jamal Osman, a reporter for British broadcaster Channel 4, on…
ETHIOPIA’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said that his country “does not wish any harm” on neighbouring Somalia. His comments…
THE African Union’s peacekeeping force in Somalia, where Al-Shabaab jihadists are waging an insurgency, said Friday the second phase of…