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Bomb explosion near a football stadium where anti-Shabaab rally was taking place

MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVER) Police in Mogadishu and witnesses say a bomb exploded near a football stadium in the capital as thousands of Mogadishu residents - many of them government employees with face masks to conceal their identities - gathered for anti-Shabaab rally on Thursday.

Somalia govt officials use private companies as a proxy to launder stolen money, receive kickbacks

MOGADISHU, Somalia (HORN OBSERVER) Officials within Somalia government are now implicated in a new money laundering scheme and kickbacks going off the radar of the finance ministry and other regulators, current and former government officials have now exposed.

Egypt, Somalia sign MoUs on higher education, cultural cooperation, media in Cairo

Egypt's Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and his Somali counterpart, Hamza Abdi Barre, witnessed the signing of the MoUs during an official visit by Barre and a high-level delegation to Cairo.

Somalia's worsening corruption crisis is fuelled by lack of accountability in govt - Report

MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVER) Somalia faces a rampant corruption in the government departments with limited or no accountability, according to a new report released today by a local non-governmental organisation.

Somalia national consultative council fails to reach consensus on major issues

MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVER) Somali political leaders on Wednesday night ended a four day gathering by the National Consultative Council in which the leaders of the Federal Government and those of the Federal Member States failed to reach a consensus on major issues, according to a press statement released…

Amid a soaring division, Puntland leader defies Somali PM's invitation

MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVER) The leader of Somali's northern-eastern state of Puntland, Said Abdullahi Deni has turned down an invitation from Prime Minister, Hamza Abdi Barre, to attend a state reception dinner hosted by the prime minister for the visiting U.S Congresswoman Ilhan Omar in Mogadishu…

Somali president: Ghost civil servants receive World Bank pay as millions of donor money lost in government fraud

MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVER) Two-thirds of the five thousand civil servants of the Somali federal government do not report for government work while some of them are certainly ghost employees despite still receiving their monthly salary paid by the World Bank, Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said…

Bees, tractors and entrepreneurs: Supporting economic resilience in Somalia

Belet Weyne, Somalia – It is 6:00 a.m. and Mohamed Dhicis is up and ready for work. Dressed in a thick, white cotton canvas suit, which covers his entire body, he walks into the apiary housing tens of thousands of bees.

Somali forces shot dead children escaping from forced recruitment in Mogadishu

MOGADISHU, Somalia (HORN OBSERVER) At least two children were shot dead and eight others injured after Somali government forces fired live bullets to stop teenagers and underage boys fleeing from forced recruitment of soldiers in Mogadishu on Wednesday, mothers of the children and local journalists…

SOMALIA: Accord University expands its activities in East and Horn of Africa

MOGADISHU, Somalia (Horn Observer) Accord University is an international Somali university offering postgraduate programs dedicated to research, as it has 32 specialized master's and doctoral programs.

Somalia: More than 100 Somali students graduate from University for Peace, including country's president

Mogadishu – Somalia's pool of academic skills deepened recently with the conferring of a range of postgraduate degrees to 166 students – including the country's president.

Impact of climate change in Somalia

1. Overview

Malawi: Killing of a girl with albinism shows community urgently needs better protection

KASUNGO (HORN OBSERVER) The killing of a three-year-old girl shows the urgent need to better protect people with albinism following a series of attacks over recent weeks.

Somalia: Amnesty International urges new government to adopt 10-point human rights plan

Six months after President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud took office, his government has yet to make good on its promises to guarantee justice and security for the people of Somalia. Amnesty International is today presenting the Somali government with a 10-point plan, outlining the steps it must take to improve…

Amnesty tells Somali authorities to stop harassing, persecuting Abdalle Mumin

NAIROBI (HORN OBSERVER) The human rights group Amnesty International today called Somali authorities to stop harassing and persecuting the Secretary-General of the Somali Journalists Syndicate, Abdalle Ahmed Mumin, who is currently out if jail on bail after he was targeted and detained by Somalia's…

Somalia: Fadumo Salad Ahmed: Bringing legal aid to disadvantaged groups in Bosaso

Bosaso – Access to justice is not easy in Somalia.

Getting a grip on Somalia's Gold rush

By: Abdirizek Abdikadir

The net-zero impact of World Bank projects in Somalia

By: Jacfar Jimcale The World Bank (WB) is launching the Somali Electricity recovery Project (SERP) which will cost 150M USD and its worth mentioning that the money is not coming from WB account. It comes from Multi-partner Fund (MPF) account which is managed by the WB. Countries like EU, Japan and UAE…

51 Somali journalists complete training funded by the U.S Embassy

MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVER) – Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) completed a journalism training course on professionalising Somali media inline with freedom of expression benefitting 51 journalists across six regions in Somalia.

Outspoken Somali lecturer to file a lawsuit in Sweden against ex-Somali PM Roble

NAIROBI (HORN OBSERVER) An outspoken and critical Somali-Kenyan university lecturer, Abdiwahab Abdisamad is filing a civil court case implicating former Somali prime minister, Mohamed Hussein Roble in Sweden, lawyers told Horn Observer.