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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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…