A team of Health Practitioners jetted off to El-Barde to control severe diarrhea outbreak in the area Storyline:National News A team of medical practitioners arrived in the Al-Shabaab-besieged town of El Barde in Bakol where a severe outbreak of watery diarrhea is causing havoc to the local population. The… 1 min read
1 min read Storyline:National News Local government officer killed in Mogadishu Unidentified men armed with pistols have gunned down a city council officer on Thursday evening in Dharkeynley district in Mogadishu. Abdi Farah Ali, resident in Dharkeynley district said two pistol-wielding…
1 min read Storyline:National News Somalia receives more than $121 million in Turkish aid Turkey has provided Somalia with humanitarian aid worth 456 million Turkish liras ($121.9 million) since 2011, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) said Thursday. AFAD contributed 255 million liras…
2 mins read Storyline:National News Somali MPs to submit motion against UAE-Somaliland military base deal Motion against the controversial deal between Somalia’s unrecognized breakaway republic of Somaliland and United Arab Emirates (UAE) to set military base is underway, MPs told Goobjoog News. In February, about…
1 min read Storyline:National News First Khat flight lands at Jowhar Airport The first ever flight ferrying Khat has landed at Jowhar airport, the regional capital of HirShabelle State. Khat traders expressed joy over the start of the direct Khat cargo flights…
1 min read Storyline:Business, National News Gabeyre re-elected chairperson of Somali Chamber of Commerce Mahmoud Abdikarin Gabeyre has been re-elected Somali Chamber of Commerce and Industry chairperson for another four year in elections which took place in Mogadishu Thursday. Gabeyre who has the chairman…
2 mins read Storyline:World Famine-hit South Sudan to charge up to $10,000 for foreign work permits War-ravaged South Sudan has hiked work permit fees 100-fold for foreign aid workers to $10,000, officials said, despite suffering from famine. The world’s youngest nation has been mired in civil…
1 min read Storyline:Business, National News Puntland asks EU to reinforce efforts against illegal foreign fishing Puntland has called on the European Union to bolster efforts at curbing illegal fishing on Somali waters noting foreign trawlers were continually denying locals access to fishing. Puntland vice president…
2 mins read Storyline:National News, World South Africa asked to appear at ICC in April over Sudan’s Bashir By Reuters South African authorities have been asked to appear at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on April 7 over the failure to arrest Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir during…
3 mins read Storyline:National News, World Hawaii to file first court challenge to new Trump travel order The state of Hawaii said it will ask a federal court on Wednesday for an emergency halt to President Donald Trump’s new executive order restricting travel from six Muslim-majority countries,…
