Over ten people killed in fighting in central Somalia Storyline:National News Over ten combatants have been killed and several others wounded in gun battle between locals and Al-Shabaab fighters in remote areas near Haradhere town in central Somalia, officials and witness… 2 mins read
2 mins read Storyline:National News Somalia’s electoral bodies lauded for their efforts to ensure credible, legitimate polls Somalia’s electoral bodies have been praised for their efforts to ensure a credible and legitimate electoral process and supported the bodies’ decisions to disqualify candidates who engaged in corruption, intimidation…
2 mins read Storyline:National News Lower House elections close in Jubbaland, 10 women elected Voting has just concluded in Jubbaland marking the end of a tightly contested race that saw the disqualification of a minister and the election of 10 women as the southern…
2 mins read Storyline:National News, World Somalia alongside Arab countries walk out of Africa-Arab Summit, protest Polisario presence Somalia, alongside Morocco and six other Arab countries Wednesday walked out of the 4th Africa- Arab Summit in Equatorial Guinea protesting the presence of a faction which has been championing the self…
2 mins read Storyline:World Sudan rebel group signs U.N. accord to end use of child soldiers By Reuters One of Sudan’s largest rebel groups, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), signed an accord on Wednesday with the United Nations to end the use of child soldiers,…
1 min read Storyline:National News Electoral body crosses midway mark as 145 MPs secure House seats States across the country crossed the halfway mark Wednesday with the election of 13 more MPs as Jubbaland added one woman to the house on it final stretch remaining with…
3 mins read Storyline:National News Sixteen more MPs elected to Lower House from four regional states in Somalia A total of 16 members of parliament (MPs) were elected to the House of the People in voting across the country today, bringing the number of elected lawmakers in the…
2 mins read Storyline:National News Somali-born German arrested for smuggling migrants out of Italy A Somali-born German was arrested Wednesday in Germany for allegedly heading a 13-man smuggling ring that helped migrants travel from Italy to northern Europe, Italian police said. With the help…
5 mins read Storyline:Archive, National News, Opinions With a week to go, can Somalia beat yet another electoral deadline? A revised schedule issued by the Federal Indirect Electoral Implementation Team, FIEIT September following a failed deadline, indicated the Presidential elections would be held November 30 while Federal House members…
2 mins read Storyline:National News FIEIT suspends the parliamentary seat of Jidle subclan, assigns committee to probe the dispute Somalia’s Federal electoral body FIEIT said on Tuesday that it has decided to delay the decision of the parliamentary seat of Jidle subclan following a brief gun battle outside the…
