Palestinians could do worse than setting up home in Somaliland
I’ve always had a soft spot for Somaliland. While visits to Somalia, just next door, entailed armed escorts and bullet-proof ...
What Really Happened During the Black Hawk Down Incident? Inside the Real-Life Combat Mission Gone Wrong Revisited in Surviving Black Hawk Down
Ridley Scott’s 2001 war film 'Black Hawk Down' told the story of 1993’s deadly Battle of Mogadishu. Here is a look back at ...
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US House committee calls for Somaliland office to counter China
An influential US-China subcommittee in the US House of Representatives is calling for the State Department to open a representative office in Somaliland, the breakaway state in Somalia, to ...
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Somalia: Police, Nisa Step Up Security With Rigorous Vehicle Checks, Arrests Robbers
Mogadishu, Somalia — The Security forces in Mogadishu, the Somali capital have ramped up vehicle inspections at checkpoints throughout the city, according to security officials who spoke to ...
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Somalia: Mogadishu Mayor Meets IOM Head to Discuss Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons
In a significant step towards managing the humanitarian crisis in Mogadishu, Mayor and Benadir Region Governor Mohamed Ahmed Amir convened with Manuel Marques Pereira, the head of the International ...
Somalia's first female equestrian is living her dream
Shukri Osman Muse said she is “delighted to be the first female equestrian in the country – it was a dream of mine for many ...
UK Foreign Office warns against travel to these 73 countries
The UK Foreign Office has issued multiple travel warnings for several countries and areas within countries across the world.
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Black Hawk Down: Three decades later, Somalis remain in ‘lasting misery’
That night, Binti’s husband, Mohamed Aden, and two sons – 14-year-old Abdulkadir Mohamed and 13-year-old Abdurahman Mohamed, ...
US aid freeze paralyzes NGOs working to help millions of internally displaced people in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — In a desolate makeshift camp on the fringes of Somalia's capital, tens of thousands of internally ...
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Somali security forces kill more than 60 ISIS fighters in Puntland state
Security forces in Somalia’s northeastern semiautonomous state of Puntland said Tuesday that they killed more than 60 ISIS ...
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Somaliland: The Horn of Africa’s Breakaway State
SNM refused to recognize an interim government led by another militia group, and in May it declared Somaliland’s independence, with the city of Hargeisa as its capital. Delegates took a decade ...