Minister Muqtar Robow receives Norwegian Ambassador to Somalia GOOBJOOG NEWS|MOGADISHU: The Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs, Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Ali, today received in his office a delegation from the Norwegian Government led by the Norwegian Ambassador to… 1 min read
5 mins read The exploration of oil and gas in Somalia Dr Ali Said Faqi We have known that Somalia is a country with a huge deposit of untapped oil and gas for years. But things got a bit serious after…
6 mins read Climate change; a shared global concern HASSAN SHEIKH MOHAMUD|SHARM EL SHEIKH: For 27 years now, the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) has been the cause célèbre of international climate talks. This year, the city of…
8 mins read Somalia and the human rights debate in Central Asia By Abdallahi Mohamed The introduction of the Draft Decision L.6; “Debate on the Situation of Human Rights in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), China”, during the 51st Session of…
4 mins read Somalia’s al-Shabab militants widening revenue base VOA|MOGADISHU: U.N. experts say the Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab has widened its revenue stream beyond its traditional activities, like charging tolls at checkpoints, to illegally taxing properties and construction.…
5 mins read African nations can’t ‘adapt’ to the climate crisis. Here’s what rich countries must do THE GUARDIAN|NAIROBI: In September, I travelled from my home country, Uganda, to Turkana County in Kenya, which is suffering from a historic drought. One morning, I met a boy in…
4 mins read A deadly decade for Somalia’s journalists Somalia can lay claim – through no choice of its own – to being the most dangerous country for journalists in Africa. Comparative data collected by the International Federation of…
2 mins read Tigray peace talks in South Africa on October 24: Ethiopia govt AFP|ADDIS ABABA: The Ethiopian government said Thursday that peace talks on the nearly two-year-old war in Tigray would start in South Africa next week. International calls for a halt to…
3 mins read Somalia, Ethiopia should form ‘food army’ to help the hungry THE EAST AFRICAN|MOGADISHU: It is the season from hell again in many parts of Africa. Around 20 percent of people in Africa — nearly 280 million — are facing chronic…
5 mins read President Mohamud: There is no turning back. We must finish off Al-Shabaab By President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud Mogadishu – Somalia is at war with a cruel, global and morally bankrupt terrorist group which we cannot allow to live and operate in our country.…