By the end of this August, clan elders from Somalia’s Jubaland region will select a new assembly whose parliamentarians will vote for a regional president. It is accepted as a virtual certainty […]
Hargeisa-(SD)-The BBC’s Africa editor recently while in Hargeisa discussed how safe she feels in the horn of Africa. The reporter’s feelings regarding how safe she feels in Somaliland and not so much in […]
Garowe(SD)-The Garowe Book Fair, which has been running for the past three days at PSU University Hall, ended tonight. People from all over the Somali regions came together, and during the three […]
Washington(SD)-Today at a press conference US House Representative Ilhan Omar presented a zero waste Act.
Hargeisa(SD)-Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi said the long-running violence in Ceel-Afweyn and the entire Sanaag region is coming to an end. “The people there in the past, those who stayed to negotiate a […]
The National Electoral Bill is currently under parliamentary review. Once approved, the law will be the foundation for one-person-one-vote (OPOV) national elections scheduled to take place in Somalia in late 2020 and […]
Mogadishu(SD)-Somali religious scholars have called on the Somali people and business people not to give shelter and support to al-Shabaab and ISIS terrorist groups. Sheikh Nur Barudud Gurhan, vice chairman of the […]
Kismayo (SD)-Jubbaland state of Somalia announced today that it has suspended cooperation with the Somali Federal Government and banned travel to Kismayo by the TFG authorities, including the cabinet, lawmakers and other officials. […]
Mogadishu July 25,2019(SD)-According to doctors at Digfeer Hospital in Mogadishu, Benadir Governor Eng Abdirahman Omar Osman Yarisow, who was injured yesterday in the bombing of the Hamar district headquarters, is moved to […]
Mogadishu July 25,2019(SD)-Sources close to the investigation of yesterday’s blast at Mogadishu’s local government center reveal that a women carried out the suicide attack. The source claimed the woman suicide attacker who died was named […]
Hargeisa July 24,2019(SD)-EU envoy Nicolás Berlanga Martinez, is liaising with President Bihi and the leaders of the opposition Parties Wadani and UCID, to bring together the three opposing views on elections. EU envoy […]
Gabiley July 24,2019(SD)-Four Gabiley city council members arrested and then sent to Hargeisa Jail. The city councilors were opposition to Gabiley’s mayor Mohamed Amin Omar, whom they wanted removed from office, accusing him of corruption and inaction. Although […]
Kismayo July 24,2019(SD)-The Ministry of Interior and Reconciliation of the government of Somalia said that the list of traditional elders issued by the Election and Boundaries Commission does not match the Ministry’s official […]
Mogadishu July 24,2019(SD)-At least 10 people have been killed and more than 30 others injured in a suicide bombing at a compound in Banadir region, al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility. The explosion occurred […]
Kismayo July 24,2018(SD)-The Independent Electoral Commission of Jubbaland has announced the list of traditional elders to select members of the Jubbaland state parliament. The elders selecting the newly announced Jubbaland parliamentarians are 135 […]
Mogadishu July 24,2019(SD)-The Somali government has reacted to a report published in the New York Times in which the Qatari government is linked the bombing of Bossaso. Somali Foreign Minister Ahmed Isse […]
Baidoa July 23,2019(SD)-Deputy prime minister of Somalia Mahdi M. Gulaid with federal and state ministers visit Baidoa. “I visited business centers where I saw the progress of business in the city and the […]
Twenty-nine cheetah cubs, destined to be sold as pets, have been rescued from an illegal smuggling trade in Somaliland. The orphaned cubs were confiscated in Somaliland, an area known as the main […]
The beginning of this month saw the Transitional Federal “Government” of Somalia, residing in a highly fortified Villa Somalia, cut non-existent diplomatic ties with Guinea Conakry because the latter accorded what looks […]
A delegation of Somalia’s regional and international partners visited Dhusamareeb on 22 July 2019, to be updated on developments in the Federal Member State of Galmudug and to attend a ceremony marking […]
