February 2016

  Members of Somali Federal Parliament have grilled Security Minister Abdirzaq Mohammed Omar on national security breaches and the immunity privileges extended to Federal Members of Parliament. Somali Interior and…

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — He was a teacher at an Islamic school, known in his hometown in northwestern Somalia as a talkative, religious man with a sense of humor. He…

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the former secretary general of the UN, has died aged 93. He died at a Cairo hospital on Tuesday, Egypt’s state news agency said, after reportedly being admitted…

The UN refugee agency said Monday it has voluntarily repatriated more than 8,000 Somali refugees from the Dadaab refugee camp in northeast Kenya to relatively safer areas in Somalia since…

At least three people were wounded after private bodyguards and police exchanged fire around Maka Al-Mukarama Hotel on Tuesday. Reports say that the fighting started as the security guards suspected…

Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid has vowed to do everything possible to bring to justice those responsible for the murder of former Somali Defense minister Muhudin Mohamed who was killed…

Unidentified gunmen in a car have killed a man in a drive-by-shooting in the Somalia capital, Mogadishu on Tuesday. The man was killed in El-qalow neighbourhood of Mogadishu’s Wadajir district…

In extraordinary meeting held  in Peoples’ House Federal Parliament Started to review parts of Somali Provisional Constitution. Independent Constitutional Review Commission presented 10 chapters out of 15 chapter of the…

The U.S. military denies reports from residents and rebels in southwestern Somalia that a suspected U.S. drone with six missiles crashed Monday in a rebel-held village in the Gedo region.…