By: Mohamed Abdiqafar Haji Hussein. President Said Abdulahi Deni spoke in Qardho city on Saturday, August 12, 2013, about the progress that the city has made since the election of the city council last year. At the end of his speech, the President took advantage of the opportunity to talk about the results of the...
CHAMPIONING THE FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM AND RESHAPING SOMALIA’S IMAGE
SOMALI YOUTHS’ PRIMARY PRIORITY: Throughout history, young people have played crucial roles in shaping transformative movements, from the rise of Islam to the struggle for Somalia’s independence. Somali youths, inspired by a deep sense of national identity and a longing for freedom, actively participated in resistance against colonial powers during the early days of the...
‘An important day’: St. Paul opens nation’s first East African magnet school
The kids coming off the buses Tuesday were planning on spending the day meeting their teachers, making new friends, and settling into a new school routine. Making history was not on their minds. But as the first students to attend St. Paul’s East African Elementary Magnet School in St. Paul, that’s what they were doing....
From herding camels to national hero: the story of a Buckeye who composed Somalia’s anthem
In a pleasant but unassuming home on the outskirts of Columbus lived a man who helped shape the course of history some 7,600 miles away. The street in a planned suburban subdivision in Jefferson Township, with its manicured lawns and large, cookie-cutter houses, seems a far cry from the arid mountains of northern Somalia where...
Somali Prime Minister meets Qatari Minister of State for International Cooperation
Doha, Qatar: The Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia HE Hamza Abdi Barre received today Qatar’s Minister of State for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, HE Lolwah bint Rashid Al Khater, at his residence in Doha. During the meeting, they discussed bilateral cooperation relations between the two countries and the...
Women’s businesses strengthened in Mogadishu IDP camps
Since setting up a small food shop in the shabby camp she lives in in Mogadishu, Fadumo Adan Warsame, a 44-year-old widow, has not had to worry about how to put food on the table for her children. “We get to cook every day now and we don’t go hungry,” she said. “I was getting...
Growing influence of Brics in East Africa through arms race
Countries. Yet, new details show that arms supply is just as much the bloc’s area of specialisation, to eastern African countries. The Brics arms race, it turns out, is already playing out in eastern Africa as new data indicates that in 2021 and 2022, Uganda and Rwanda were the biggest importers of Russian arms, while...
Alert: SJS colleague Mohamed Bulbul’s phone devices compromised during incommunicado detention
he Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) expresses profound concern over the apparent compromise of SJS Secretary of Information and Human Rights, Mohamed Ibrahim Bulbul’s phone devices, a matter that has recently come to our attention. Since his unlawful detention on 17 August, 2023, plain-clothed national intelligence officers confiscated Bulbul’s devices. Officers from the police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) had requested...
ICRC visits over 300 detainees in Laascaanood following recent clashes
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) conducted its inaugural visit to more than 300 detainees in Laascaanood on Thursday, August 31. The detainees were captured during the latest bout of confrontations between the Somaliland army and SSC Khatumo forces over last Friday. On August 25, local SSC Khatumo forces, with the support of...
Russia starts grain deliveries to Africa
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday that “the practical work” on supply of Russian grain to six African countries has already begun. Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Eritrea, Mali, Somalia, and Zimbabwe will each get 50,000 tons of grain free of charge in the coming months, he said at an event in...