Halifax (SD) – Ali Duale, who fled to Canada as a refugee, became the first Muslim, Somali to become a member of the Canadian Parliament in Nova Scotia. Ali Duale, a firefighter […]
CANADA: First Somali MP in Nova Scotia parliament
Somaliland Education Minister meets with Kenyan counterpart and EU officials
Nairobi (SD) – Somaliland Minister of Education Ahmed Mohamed Diriye, on an official visit met with Kenya’s Minister of Education Prof. George Albert Magoha in Nairobi. The Minister was accompanied by the […]
Wadani “$2.5 million goes into private pockets, unpaid staff.”
Hargeisa (SD) – Waddani Opposition Party, has alleged that more than $2 million from government coffers fall into the pockets of individuals, while workers are not paid. The money, according to the […]
Blast kills five in Mogadishu
Mogadishu (SD) – A suicide bomber blew himself up and other innocent by standers near the Jubba Interchange in the Somali capital Mogadishu this afternoon. According to police and witnesses, at least […]
Somaliland security forces re-arrest Oldon
Hargeisa (SD) – Somaliland police have arrested again journalist Abdimalik Muse Oldon, a well-known activist for the poor and social media figure Oldon and other religious clerks have been campaigning recently for […]
Suspected ISIS fighters capture town in northeastern Somalia
BOSASO (SD) – Heavily armed suspected fighters suspected to belong to the so-called Islamic State in Somalia (ISS) on Wednesday evening stormed a town in northeastern Somalia, prompting hours long fighting with […]
Somalia’s telecom companies have until Aug. 31 to apply for licences
MOGADISHU (SD) – Telecommunication companies in Somalia have been given an ultimatum of less than two weeks to secure licences, failure to which they will be suspended, the country’s National Communications Authority […]
COVID-19 cases in Somalia hit 16,535
MOGADISHU (SD) – Somali health ministry on Wednesday confirmed 136 more cases of COVID-19, raising the national tally to 16,535. Of the new cases, 56 were female while 80 were male. The […]
Asma Mohammed, a recent Barwaaqo University graduate talked to us about her Educational experience
Hargeisa (SD) -Barwaaqo University established in 2009 had it’s inaugural Class of 2021 graduate two days ago these young women are the first all-female residential university Graduates. The hope is They’ll go […]
AU Security Council officials in Mogadishu to assess Somalia’s security situation
Mogadishu (SD) – Officials from the African Union Security Council arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu today, to assess the country’s overall security situation. Members of the African Union Security Council has […]
Chairman Irro reveals who is behind the rift within the electoral commission
Mogadishu (SD) – The chairman of the Federal Electoral Commission spoke about the disagreement between the members of the commission, based on the release of the Somali Parliament’s election procedure announced yesterday. […]
Somaliland sentences soldier to death over murder of student
HARGEISA (SD) – A military court in Somaliland has sentenced a police officer for killing a student early last month at Amoud University in Borama town of Awdal region. Omar Diriye Burale, […]
Somaliland government arrests prominent cleric
Hargeisa (SD) – Somaliland security forces arrested Sheikh Mohamed Sheikh Ismail, a well-known sheikh in Somaliland and in many parts of Somalia, according to the sheikh’s daughter. The sheikh, who runs a […]
Somaliland Vice President Attends Farewell Ceremony for Taiwanese Scholarship Recipients
Hargeisa (SD) – The Vice President of the Republic of Somaliland Abdirahman Abdillahi Ismail (Saylici) attended a farewell ceremony for a Somaliland student who received a scholarship from Taiwan. The event was […]
Federal Election Implementation Committee issues parliamentary election procedures
Mogadishu (SD) – Federal Election Implementation Committee has today released the Procedures and Criteria for the 2020/2021 Somalia’s Parliamentary Election Process. Parliamentary election procedure developed by the Federal Electoral Commission gives most […]
Laftagareen calls for more efforts to hold universal suffrage in Somalia
BAIDOA (SD) – Somalia has not yet achieved its targeted elections but the current ongoing electoral process is better than none, Southwest state, President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen. During a ceremony held […]
Somali forces kill more than 270 militants
MOGADISHU (SD) – Somali forces have killed more than 279 al-Shabaab fighters and injured dozens of others in security operations against the militants for the last one month in central and southern […]
Afghanistan, the painful, but pertinent questions remain
Today, the United States, the United Kingdom and the rest of the Western world are in a gloomy mood of what went ‘wrong’ (or right) in Kabul, upon yesterday’s decisive victory for […]
Somaliland President Attends All Female Graduation Ceremony at Barwaqo University
Hargeisa (SD) – The President of the Republic of Somaliland, Muse Bihi Abdi, attended the first all female inaugural graduation ceremony at Barwaqo University located in Baliga-cas region, north of the Somaliland […]
Somalia Candidates’ Union demands 4 points after Mogadishu conference
Mogadishu (SD) – After a three-day conference at the Al Jazeera Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia’s Union of Presidential Candidates issued a press statement on the start of the Upper House elections and […]
