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BBC NEWS|BUKURE: It is just after five in the morning, and three pickup trucks – each bristling, like porcupines, with a dozen heavily armed soldiers – are tearing along a…

GOOBJOOG NEWS|MOGADISHU: President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has disbanded the National Independent Elections Commission and the Federal Boundaries Commission and directed the cabinet to constitute the two bodies afresh. The President…

GOOBJOOG NEWS|MOGADISHU: A politician who contested but lost in last year’s parliamentary elections has been shot dead in Mogadishu. Armed men killed Mohamed Hussein Sebriye alias Guleyste in Mogadishu’s Wadajir…

XINHUA|MOGADISHU: The World Food Programme (WFP) said Monday it requires 416 million U.S. dollars for the next six months to prevent famine in Somalia. WFP said the funds, required between…

THE NEW YORK TIMES|MOGADISHU: The sea of rag-and-stick tents that spreads in every direction from the hungry, embattled city of Baidoa, in southern Somalia, gives way to sprawling plains controlled…

GOOBJOOG NEWS|MOGADISHU: Police in Mogadishu’s Banadir region have reigned in on a man accused of sharing videos on a popular media app, TikTok, of him sexually assaulting young girls. Police…

GOOBJOOG NEWS|KISMAYO: Somali National Forces have killed two Khawarij ringleaders following a special operation carried out in the Dhursheen area, near Bakool, in Somalia’s Southwest state. According to a military…

By Abdirahman Abshir In a historic first of a kind, Somalia will hold its first ever International Investment Conference in its quest to rebuild and overcome its lost progress as…

SAVE THE CHILDREN|BAIDOA: A single graveyard in Somalia has been filled with the bodies of 230 children as malnutrition soars to levels not seen since famine was last declared in…