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Iqro Abdi Farah has been unable to cook a decent meal for her 12 children since June, when they arrived in Raage-Iidle camp on the outskirts of Beledweyne, after fleeing their rural home due to an unforgiving combination of drought and insecurity. She and her 12 children must depend on whatever their relatives and other...

A suspected drone strike in central Somalia killed five civilians and three al-Shabaab militants, according to two local leaders, after the fighters sought refuge in a house compound containing a family. Diverging accounts of the incident emerged, with Somalia’s state broadcaster reporting that a woman and two children were killed by a landmine the militants...

The United States government has issued a bounty of up to 10 million dollars for information on the whereabouts of Ahmed Diriye, also known as Ahmed Umar and Abu Ubaidah, a high-ranking member of the Somalia-based Al-Qaeda linked militant group Al-Shabaab. The State Department Rewards for Justice Program issued the notice saying in a statement...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...