Fahmo Aden: "I would do anything to see my boy normal again"
It was like anyother day in the life of Fahmo Aden, a 34-year-old mother and small trader,until she was told her oldest son had been killed in an...
Statement on Somalia: Call on President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed not to assent to the media bill
The Network of African Freedom of Expression Organisations (NAFEO) has learned with dismay the adoption by the Transitional Parliament of Somalia of...
Somalia is again polio-free
10 000 health workers stop polio virus through immunizationSomalia is again polio-free, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) announced...
SOMALIA: Land dispute erupts in Galkayo, 10 killed
Ten people have been killed and at least 20 others injured in inter-clan fighting over land in Somalia's central town of Galkayo in the Mudug region,...
SOMALIA: One year later, AU force in Mogadishu soldiers on
One year after the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) deployed its first peacekeepers to Mogadishu, the Somali capital, assessments of its...
Somalia: Journalists face deliberate and systematic attack
Amnesty International today revealed the extent of the repression facing Somali journalists trying to report on the continuing conflict in the...
SOMALIA: Get more girls in school, activists say
Somalia has one of the worst school-attendance rates in the world and, to mark International Women's Day on 8 March, activists are drawing attention...
SOMALIA: Extension of peace mission's mandate not enough, says government
Somalia's transitional government has welcomed a resolution by the UN Security Council authorising a six-month extension for African Union (AU)...
SOMALIA: Two million face humanitarian crisis, warn agencies
An estimated two million people in Somalia are facing a humanitarian crisis and need urgent aid, humanitarian agencies have warned. In a...