Nairobi - Somali broadcast journalist Abdullahi Osman Moalim died yesterday from injuries sustained on September 10 when a suicide bomber attacked a café in Beldweyne where members of the press gather, Somalia's Minister of Information, Abdirahman Omar Osman, and the journalist's colleagues, told CPJ. (more…)
Doctors down tools in Mogadishu
Mogadishu - Doctors and nurses at an Austrian-funded maternity and paediatric hospital in the Somali capital went on strike on Monday after one of the doctors was kidnapped, a local medical officer said. (more…)
The Somali mother and son who have chosen to live on a high street bench for three years, despite council’s repeated attempts to rehouse them (including in TWO flats they turned down)
A Somali mother and son were evicted from their flat in Tooting, London, in 2014 for not paying their rent.Since then, the pair have been living on a bench on the busy Tooting High Street and sleep under tarpaulin.The council tried to rehome them but they turned down two-bedroom flats...
Passport row erupts in Somalia
Nairobi - In an unusual twist to conflicts verging on war, Somalia's weak government and powerful Islamist movement opened a verbal diplomatic battle Wednesday over the creation of a new national passport. (more…)
Somali army repels al-Shabaab after attack
Somali government forces have regained control of a town on the border with Kenya after al-Shabaab militants stormed an army base there, causing heavy clashes in which at least 17 people died, the military says. (more…)
Sixty Somali nationals sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment
A sessions court in Mumbai on Friday sentenced 60 Somali men to seven-year prison term for a piracy attack on a merchant vessel in 2011. (more…)
Four dead in suicide bombing at Somalia restaurant, police say
Mogadishu - A Somali police officer says four people are dead after a suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant in Baidoa town in southwestern Somalia. (more…)
Somalia just unveiled its first tech innovation hub
Coming soon to Mogadishu: Somalia’s first fully-fledged innovation hub. (more…)
Somali students receive scholarships to enhance education in China
Forty-two Somali students drawn from different parts of the country were Wednesday awarded scholarships to study in various universities in China. (more…)
Payments boom in East Africa indicates rise in trade flows
Traffic on the global payments network Swift has grown by 20.1% in East Africa over the past year, indicating an increase in trade flows with and within the region. (more…)