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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/5/2023 8:53:08 PM
Egypt welcomed the United Nations Security Council’s resolution on Saturday to lift the arms embargo imposed on Somalia since 1992, in a statement issued by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.
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World
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Africa
12/2/2023 12:59:07 PM
Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud welcomed Saturday the U.N. Security Council vote to lift an arms embargo imposed on the Horn of Africa nation more than 30 years ago.
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World
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Africa
11/8/2023 4:53:44 PM
At least 29 people have been killed and more than 850,000 displaced due to flooding triggered by heavy rains in Somalia, according to the country's disaster management authorities.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/22/2023 8:09:51 PM
Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry warned against international disregard for the crisis in Sudan in a meeting on Sunday with Annette Weber, the European Union Special Representative (EUSR) for the Horn of Africa.
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World
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Africa
9/24/2023 5:23:31 PM
The death toll from a truck bombing in central Somalia rose to 21 on Sunday after emergency workers dug through rubble to recover more bodies buried under broken bricks, concrete and metal.
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World
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Region
9/24/2023 2:57:14 PM
Emergency workers in central Somalia dug through rubble to recover more bodies Sunday after a truck bombing killed over a dozen people and brought buildings crashing down.
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World
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Africa
9/22/2023 3:24:41 PM
Violence-wracked Somalia is seeking a three-month delay in the planned reduction of African Union troops after suffering "several significant setbacks" in its fight against Al-Shabaab militants, according to a government letter seen by AFP.
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World
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Africa
9/17/2023 5:24:28 PM
The Somali National Army killed more than 30 al-Shabab fighters on Saturday evening in operations in central Somalia.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
9/6/2023 3:01:04 PM
Tributes have been pouring in for one of Somalia's musical greats, Ahmed Naji Sa'ad, who died in London this week.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/25/2023 9:57:17 PM
Egypt condemned on Tuesday a suicide bombing that targeted a military targeted a military training camp Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu on Monday killing dozens and injuring many more.
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World
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Africa
7/23/2023 10:56:22 AM
In Kenya's rural northeast, roadside bombs and beheadings that killed two dozen people last month appear to be part of a troubling escalation of violence by Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists, analysts say.
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World
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Africa
7/9/2023 10:46:10 PM
The African Union's high-level delegation wrapped up their four-day visit to Somalia on Saturday to assess the first stage of a planned troop withdrawal, which it said was successfully concluded at the end of June.
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World
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International
7/6/2023 9:56:06 AM
Children experienced the highest number of “grave violations” in conflicts verified by the United Nations in 2022, with the conflicts between Israeli and Palestinians and in Congo and Somalia putting the most youngsters in peril, the U.N. children’s agency said Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
7/1/2023 2:43:49 PM
The African Union force in conflict-torn Somalia said it has completed the first phase of a troop reduction aimed at eventually putting security fully in the hands of the national army and police.
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World
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Africa
6/11/2023 6:09:23 PM
The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) and the United Nations have condemned the hotel terrorist attack that occurred in the capital, Mogadishu on Friday in which nine people were killed and ten others wounded.
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World
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Africa
6/11/2023 11:15:40 AM
An employee with the World Health Organization was among those killed in the weekend siege of a beachside hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, the head of the UN health agency said on Sunday.
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World
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Africa
6/10/2023 10:30:34 AM
Six civilians were killed and 10 wounded in a six-hour siege by Islamist Al-Shabaab militants at a beachside hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, police said Saturday.
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World
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Africa
6/4/2023 10:47:37 AM
At least 54 African Union peacekeepers were killed when militants attacked a base housing Ugandan units in Somalia last week, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said.
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World
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Africa
5/28/2023 1:18:33 PM
Somalia's government and federal member states said Sunday that direct universal suffrage would be introduced with local elections set for June 2024.
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World
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Africa
5/28/2023 10:27:16 AM
The United States conducted an airstrike that destroyed stolen Al-Shabaab weapons and equipment in Somalia near an African Union military base that was attacked by the group, officials reported Saturday.
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