Conflict, environmental disasters, and displacement make it difficult to provide quality education to Somalia’s children and youth. Instability derails access to school, training educators and getting materials to students. It also destroys a community’s sense of trust and wellbeing, which are critical to building resilience and learning. Officials across Somalia’s Ministry of Education, Culture, and...
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Somali journalists union leader courageously exposes abuses before the court in Mogadishu
The secretary-general of the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) Abdalle Ahmed Mumin appeared at the Banadir Regional Court on the second hearing in a case that severely impacts media freedom and the safety of the journalists in Somalia. Mr. Mumin courageously spoke before the court as he posed very serious questions. Mumin asked the court why...
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Blasts target troops in central Somalia
One person was killed and at least six others injured in a suicide car bombing at a checkpoint manned by Somali government troops in the central region of Hiran on Saturday, witnesses said, part of a twin suicide car attack. The al Shabaab militant group claimed responsibility for the attacks, which went off almost simultaneously...
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Stakeholders fault FG’s stance on food security
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) figures released late last year revealed that Somalia remains on the brink of famine, as 5.6 million people are in crisis or worse level of food insecurity. The report projected that the figure is expected to rise to 6.4 million by March and 8.3 million by June, emphasising that...
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Boost for Kenyan traders as miraa exports to Somalia more than double
Somalia has allowed Kenya to more than double the volumes of miraa exported to this lucrative market, expanding opportunities for local farmers who are eying good returns from the Horn of Africa nation. The exports, which have now increased to 50 tonnes daily, had been capped at a maximum of 19 tonnes a day by...
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Story Musa Aden is a Somali American actor and filmmaker
Story Musa Aden is a Somali American actor and filmmaker
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RFK HUMAN RIGHTS AND OTHER LEADING INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS CALL ON SOMALI GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO DROP CHARGES AGAINST ABDALLE AHMED MUMIN
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joins six other international organizations in a letter to Somali government officials calling for all charges against journalist, press freedom advocate, and Secretary General of Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS), Abdalle Ahmed Mumin, to be dropped. The letter details the arbitrary arrests, detention, and persecution that Mr. Mumin has faced in recent...
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Kenyan traders buy Ethiopian miraa for Somalia market on high costs
Miraa traders have shifted to Ethiopia as a source market for the stimulant, where they are buying nearly half of the allocated quota for the Somali market as high costs in Kenya force them to abandon the local crop. The traders said they procure at least 40 percent of the 19 tonnes that the Somali...
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Somalia drought: One boy’s fight to save his family from starvation
Dahir’s brother died of hunger. Now two of his sisters are fighting sickness and malnutrition. The BBC’s Andrew Harding returns to Baidoa to revisit a family forced to flee Somalia’s worst drought in 40 years, as authorities urge the international community to recognise the crisis as a famine. Warning: This article contains images some readers...
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US Offers $10M Rewards for Somalia’s Al-Shabaab
In the deadliest attack in five years, twin bombings on October 29 claimed by Al-Shabaab killed at least 121 people and injured 333 others in Mogadishu