NEWS

MOGADISHU — Grim details are emerging from a suicide bombing tonight at the Gelato Divino restaurant on Mogadishu airport road. Reports say that seven people were killed in the blast, most of them prominent Mogadishu youths, and a number of others were injured in the blast. A man wearing a …

BAIDOA — AMISOM Political Affairs Unit has concluded a training aimed to equip traditional elders with skills to mediate and resolve conflicts and disagreements in their communities. The four-day training on reconciliation and conflict management, held in Baidoa, attracted over 40 traditional elders in the Southwest State of Somalia. The …

BAIDOA — The Somali Prime Minister, Mohamed Hussein Roble, praised the Qatari support for his country, applauding Qatar Charity(QC) for implementing the qualitative developmental projects in the country. This came during the inauguration of a multi-service center and a charity bakery by Qatar Charity in Baidoa in the southwestern Bay …

GAROWE — Electronics shop owner Mohamed Nor had a thriving business selling televisions and phones in Somalia’s coastal town of Bosaso until three days ago when the most powerful storm to hit the country hammered his business and left him with nothing. “I had a booming shop in downtown Bosaso. …

MOGADISHU — The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has concluded the training of 336 journalists in reporting on Sexual and Gender-based violence, with the last training concluded in Garowe, the capital of Puntland State of Somalia. The training was jointly organized by NUSOJ and the Federal Ministry for Women …

MOGADISHU — Tropical cyclone Gati which made landfall in Somalia on Sunday evening, killing eight people and caused destruction, has weakened and is moving towards the Gulf of Aden, the UN humanitarian agency said on Tuesday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said however that heavy …

MOGADISHU — At least eight people were killed and 70,000 others affected by a tropical cyclone, Gati, which made landfall in Somalia on Sunday evening causing heavy rains and windstorms, the UN humanitarian agency said on Monday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said an unknown …

LONDON — Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged Somalia’s authorities to intensify investigations into the abduction and killing of seven health workers and a pharmacist, saying government investigations “have not resulted in arrests or prosecutions.” “On May 27 at about 1:30 p.m., five masked gunmen entered the compound of …

MOGADISHU — Somalia and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said they have stepped up the fight against desert locusts. The FAO warned on Friday that large populations of desert locusts in Somalia have moved toward southern parts of the country while widespread hatching and hopper …

NAIROBI — Somalia is among the most vulnerable countries to climate change shocks in sub-Saharan Africa and the least survive climate effects, a report by a Canadian University has said. The report by the University of Notre Dame University ranks Somalia at position 179 out of 181 countries citing ‘lack the …