Executive Summary The election of Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo on 8 February 2017 was exciting as Farmaajo seemed to be the friendliest candidate for accountability. However, the President took little interest in governing and ceded much authority to his Prime Minister. (more…)
Somalia’s capital Mogadishu hit by huge explosion
A suicide bomber has attacked a government office in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, causing a nearby school to collapse, police say. (more…)
Somali national blames ‘fake food’ probe for looting spree in Soweto
A Somalian national helping his fellow countrymen pack up a shop in Diepkloof‚ Soweto‚ said on Thursday they were targeted by looters after the health ministry announced an investigation into the alleged selling of suspected expired or counterfeit goods. (more…)
UK Somali teenagers taken ‘on holiday’ and forced into marriage
British Somali teenagers are being taken back to their parents’ homeland under the pretence of a holiday and then kept in detention centres before being forced into marriages. (more…)
Somali immigrants find growing acceptance in Minnesota
One afternoon in 1993, as Carolyn Treadway looked out through her house window, she caught the sight of a woman in a traditional Islamic garment practicing parallel parking between mobile cones beside Faribault's Central Park. (more…)
Mourning my friend Mohamed, the dry cleaner of Mogadishu
Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, has been described as the most dangerous city in the world. But some people there are trying to bring life back to the place. During her regular visits, BBC World Service Africa editor Mary Harper came to know one of them - an entrepreneur named Mohamed Mahamoud...
Shaqaale Laga Ceyriyay Xafiiska RW Soomaaliya
Muqdishu 20/08/2018 (banooda)-Illaa 106 shaqaale oo ka shaqeynayay qeybaha Xafiiska Ra'iisul Wasaaraha Soomaaliya ayaa laga ceyriyay xafiiska, iyagoo liiskooda la soo dhejiyay, waxaa feylashooda loo gudbiyay Guddiga Shaqaalaha Rayidka, si dib u eegis loogu sameeyo, (more…)
Somalia: Al-Shabaab loses strategic town to military
Military forces of Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region have retaken a strategic town from Islamic militant group al Shabaab, an officer said on Friday. (more…)
Journalist captured in Somalia weighed up desperate last act
“It would have been a suicidal act.” Michael Scott Moore was long into his 977 days held captive by Somalia pirates when a guard's carelessly laid gun offered him a way out. (more…)
Despite Trump, Somali-Americans overcame scrutiny to make political history in Minnesota
Two days before the 2016 US presidential elections, Donald Trump visited Minnesota and told supporters that faulty refugee vetting processes allowed large numbers of Somalis to come to the state. They came here, he said, “without your knowledge, without your support or approval, and with some of them then joining ISIS and...