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Somalia: UN envoy sees greater cooperation with Somaliland

HARGEISA, Somalia (HORN OBSERVER)- The United Nations Special Representative for Somalia, James Swan speaks to the press during visit to Hargeisa on Thursday where he had a meeting with local officials.

Somalia: Police confiscate and delete footage from journalists' cameras, detain one in Mogadishu

MOGADISHU, Somalia (HORN OBSERVER) - Somalia's police on Wednesday detained a senior TV journalist Ahmed Abdi Adawe in Mogadishu while seven other journalists were their equipment confiscated as the police deleted footage files from the journalists' cameras following a deadly car bomb near the…

Car bomb attack hits security checkpoint near the Somali parliament

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A car bomb blast believed to be suicide attack targeted a security checkpoint near the government's highly guarded areas killing several, local media reported.

Somaliland dismisses the establishment of Red Sea, Gulf of Aden council

HARGEISA, Somaliland - The Breakaway region of Northwestern Somalia dismissed the establishment of the Red Sea Council which announced in Saudi Arabia

Somalia: AMISOM hospital receives laboratory and theater equipment

MOGADISHU, Somalia– The United Nations Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS) has handed over medical equipment to a health facility operated by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in Mogadishu.

Somalia: Galmudug to fight desert locusts with pesticides

DHUSAMAREB, Somalia - Ministry of Agriculture of Galmudug State of Somalia in collaboration with experts from the Somali federal Ministry of Agriculture started plans to fight against the locusts which invaded Somalia has been battling locals in the past few days, whose invasion felt across Somalia,…

FESOJ is worried about the deteriorating situation of press freedom in Somalia

Press Statement: Mogadishu, Monday , January 6, 2020: Federation of Somali Journalists (FESOJ) is worried about the deteriorating situation of the press freedom in Somalia and the appalling working conditions of the Somali journalists.

Baidoa's first girls-only school: investing in girls' education to transform communities in Somalia

It is recess time, and lively chatter can be heard from the grounds of Abdalla Deerow School in Baidoa.

State of the Press Freedom report in Somalia in 2019

MOGADISHU, Somalia, 06 January, 2020 – As 2019 ends, multiple actors continue to target Somalia media and its professionals through continued attacks, arbitrary arrests, death threats, and obstruction of access to information – all representing a vital constitutional right that citizens were meant…

Somalia statement on Manda Bay Airfield Terror Attack in Kenya

MOGADISHU, Jan 5, 2020: The Federal Republic of Somalia joins the rest of the world in condemning the cowardly attack that targeted joint Kenyan and U.S forces based at Manda Bay Airfield, Kenya earlier today.