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Two assailants have opened fire at the US consulate building in Istanbul and engaged in a gunfight with security personnel, only hours after a bomb attack on a police station…

Searching for oil off the coast of one of the world’s most dangerous and corrupt countries was always going to be difficult for Soma Oil and Gas Ltd. Now its work…

By RASNA WARAH It is estimated that Somalia has as many as 110 billion barrels of oil and gas reserves — about half of what Saudi Arabia has. So, when…

By T. Roble In our continuing series on the oil contracts fiasco which in the last one week has resulted in criminal investigations by the UK Serious Fraud Office on…

By T. Roble The extractives company, Soma Oil and Gas Holding Limited (Soma) has secured a unique and potentially lucrative contract to exploit a dozen offshore oil and gas blocks…

A SOCIETY that does not publish, perishes. Such was the candid and terse advice from Mohamed Diini, the chair of the upcoming Mogadishu International Book Fair when Goobjoog News sat down…

Somalia could for the first time in its history be governed by a coalition government should a proposal exclusively seen by Goobjoog News which also seeks to retain the controversial…

Egypt has opened a major expansion of the Suez Canal, which deepens the main waterway and provides ships with a 35km (22 mile) channel parallel to it. At the inauguration,…

The withdrawal of Kenyan troops from Somalia will compromise the fight against terrorism in the Horn of Africa, an African Union special envoy said on Thursday. Dr Maman Sidikou, the…