David Cameron pledges new future for Somalia – video
Number of View: 121David Cameron discusses UK and international co-operation with Somalia at a conference in London on Tuesday. Cameron pledges support to Somalia, saying the challenges faced by the country are issues for Britain as well as the international community. The conference is being attended by representatives of the United Nations, African More...
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud gave the opening address at the Somali Conference today
Number of View: 89Tuesday, May 7, 2013—The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Hassan Sheikh Mohamud gave the opening address at the Somalia Conference today. This is the text of the President’s More...
Deadly explosion strikes Somali capital
Number of View: 97Sunday, May 5, 2013—At least 11 people killed in Mogadishu as bomber rams car laden with explosives into convoy carrying Qatari officials. A powerful blast has struck the commercial and administrative More...
American jihadi in Somalia tweets, posts pictures of what he calls an assassination attempt
Number of View: 224By Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya — A most-wanted American jihadi in Somalia said Friday that the leader of Islamic extremist rebels in Somali was starting a civil war, just hours after an More...
Somalia: Female genital mutilation down
Number of View: 217By JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press NAIROBI, KENYA — Attitudes in Somalia toward a practice that critics decry as torture may be changing, as new data released by the U.N. children’s More...
Somalia’s president declares a new war on Alshabab following a day of deadly attacks in Mogadishu
Number of View: 205Hiiraan Online Monday, April 15, 2013 Somalia’s president Hassan Shiekh Mohamud has declared a new war against Alshabab after the Islamist group claimed the responsibility for the deadly court More...
Somalia courthouse attack included ‘foreign involvement,’ says PM; toll rises to 35
Number of View: 103MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (AP)—Somalia’s prime minister said Monday that several experienced foreign fighters took part in the most serious Islamic extremist attack on Mogadishu in years, while More...
President Hassan says “Chemical weapons remain deadly and destructive”
Number of View: 157Office of the President of Somalia Press Release Sunday, April 14, 2013—The Federal Republic of Somalia expresses it’s solemn commitment to accede to the Convention on the Prohibition of the More...
Bombs and gun battle kill at least 16 in Somali capital
Number of View: 152Sunday, April 14, 2013—At least 16 people were killed as two car bombs exploded outside the law courts in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu and gunmen stormed the building on Sunday, before More...
The Prime Ministers of Somalia and Ethiopia met in Addis Ababa
Number of View: 208His Excellency Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon and the Prime Minister of Ethiopia His Excellency Hailamariam Daselegn today discussed on ways to strengthen relationship between the two countries More...