At least five people died and 23 others were injured after a huge explosion rocked Somalia’s capital Mogadishu early on Thursday, triggering a plume of smoke which rose from the blast site amid gunfire, according to officials and a Reuters witness. “So far we know five people died and 23 others (were) injured,” Abdikadir Abdirahman, […]
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Somalia’s government has declared a state of emergency in the country following a report submitted by a committee set up to evaluate the drought situation in the country. In a statement, Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble called on the Somali people, clerics, businesses and the international community to come to the aid of those affected. […]
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Somalia’s federal electoral agency is urging all regional polls supervisors to ensure that at least 30 percent of seats in the Lower House go to women. In a letter to state electoral teams, the federal agency also published a table showing the number of legislators each state will vote for, out of the total 275 […]
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Somalia has expelled Ugandan diplomat Simon Mulongo, the Deputy Head of the African Mission in Somalia (Amisom), for allegedly engaging in “incompatible” behaviour. The Horn country’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs, in a letter copied to Amisom and the African Union Commission (AUC), declared the envoy persona non grata. Somalia has now ordered Mulongo to leave […]
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On Tuesday, the Somali government rejected an African Union (AU) proposal for a joint stabilization mission with the United Nations (UN) to spearhead peacekeeping operations in the country. It said that the Africa Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) did not consider Somalia’s views, including that of a joint technical team created to assess the […]
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President Uhuru Kenyatta has issued a statement on the judgment made by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the maritime border dispute between Kenya and Somalia. In the four-page statement issued Tuesday evening, President Kenyatta criticized the decision, firmly stating that Kenya rejects it in totality and would not recognise the court’s findings. “At […]
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