Reporting on Somalia, the Horn of Africa and the Somali diaspora.
Maxamed Farax Cali, also known as Idaajaa, is a household name in Somalia. Idaajaa is a literary scholar who researches, collects and broadcasts Somali poetry on radio. During his long career, he has dealt with…
Osman Ali, a Somali restaurateur, in Minneapolis started collecting Somali artefact items and storing them in the basement of his restaurant. It is unknown to us when he started his collection but it could be some…
Finally, after over a year of fake news reports by outlets such as Reuters and a discredited UN report which obtained its evidence from questionable sources, the incumbent Somali President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud…
The Horn of Africa is a home for people of different ethnicity, cultures, languages, and religions. The region has endured endless conflicts, spanning from the struggle for independence, and civil war in Somalia to…
In another reshuffle of the upper echelons of the Somali state, President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud disbands yet another series independent commissions that were formed during the previous administration.
On the 9th of October, Villa Somalia released a statement in which it outlined a Presidential decree signed by President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud effectively disbanding two critical independent institutions created by…
October 4th 2021, marked the final month that I vacated my long-time rented residence apartment in the Taleh district of Mogadishu. I have lived in this apartment for three good years, during which it remained my…
As the waters evaporate due to the sizzling heat of the sun, so have the hopes and dreams of hundreds of thousands of traditional nomadic and farmer communities of Somalia.
At least 15 people were killed after 2 suicide bombers detonated explosive vests. Amina Mohamed Abdi, a female lawmaker in the Somali Federal Parliament’s live was also cut short by the same suicide bombers on…
Cloud seeding is a method of weather modification that involves improving cloud’s ability to produce rain by distributing compounds into the air that act as cloud condensation or ice nuclei, altering the…
The Jubba River (wabiga jubba) is one of the 2 major rivers in southern Somalia that flows through the Somali Federal State of Jubaland. Beginning at the border with Ethiopia, where the Dawa River and Ganale Dorya…
The AU Mission in Somalia, which was first authorized by the African union Peace & Security Council to be then mandated by the United Nations Security Council on19th January 2007 and will be coming to end on 31st…
At least 15 people were killed in Baledweyne, Hiraan in central Somalia on Saturday after a suicide bomber entered a café then detonating his explosive vest in the packed space teeming with local administration…
Somalia Air Force Brig. Gen. Sh Ali Mohamed Mohamud last sat in the cockpit of a Somali MiG fighter jet in March 1978.
During the blockade on Doha, Mogadishu’s president was reportedly offered $80 million to sever diplomatic ties with the Gulf state.
The Director General of Somali Civil Aviation Authority, Ahmed Moalim Hassan set the record straight after reports emerged of discreet negotiations on-going between the authority & Vector Airways Systems. Vector…
Russia wished all efforts of Somalia's authorities to fight terrorism and extremism to be successful, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a ceremony to present credentials to ambassadors.
Somali Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mohamed Abdirizak Mohamud, received in the country's Foreign Affairs Ministry the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union…
Washington’s escalating hybrid warfare operations against Ethiopia may have cost the United States its strategic influence over the globally-vital Red Sea/Suez sea lanes.
Somali Attorney General Suleiman Mohamed Mohamud on Tuesday warned that the Horn of Africa country will no longer tolerate foreign vessels that come to its sea to illegally fish, cautioning that ships would be…
A Bayraktar drone is seen during a rehearsal for Ukraine's Independence Day military parade in central Kyiv, Ukraine August 18, 2021. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/File Photo
Somaliland authorities operating in the northern city of Las Anod have forcefully evicted more than 700 civilians including women and children, from their homes.
When Munira Ahmed was 3, her family moved from Ethiopia to the Twin Cities, finally settling in St. Cloud.
The kidnapping of Abdiwahab Sheikh Abdisamad unfolded in the full glare of a sizable crowd in Nairobi’s city centre. Chillingly, the kidnappers’ initial intention was to murder the Horn of Africa expert within hours…