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A navy flak jacket over his sky-blue shirt, Neil Wigan peered through the bulletproof glass window at six uneven wooden…

Mogadishu – Twin suicide bombings at a Mogadishu hotel popular with ministers and officials were carried out by Dutch nationals,…

Al Shabaab claims responsibility for the bombing of a hotel in central Mogadishu killing at least 10 people and injuring…

By ABDI GULED Associated Press [ad name=”HTML-2″] Two strong explosions were heard on Friday at a hotel near Somalia’s presidential…

Government officials were meeting at the Central Hotel in Somalia’s capital when an Islamic extremist rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into…

Most of the major contracts signed by Somalia’s government in the past two years were not tendered competitively and should…

Editorial: Allow remittances to avert a humanitarian crisis in Somalia The Obama administration needs to act now to avert a…

By Neil Wigan UK Ambassador to Somalia, The start of the year is always a time to reflect on past…

A Somali police officer says gunmen have shot and killed a Somali lawmaker in a drive-by shooting in the Somali…

A senior Al-Shabaab member was killed in a U.S. drone strike last week in southern Somalia, the Somali intelligence agency…

UN Somalia envoy ‘excited and worried’ about political progress in year ahead 4 February 2015 – Underlining the importance of…

A former Delta Force soldier went to Mogadishu to help a little-known company train African soldiers to fight al-Shabab. He…

Report of the Secretary-General on Somalia January 2015 “Somalia’s leadership must now work together to form a new cabinet and…

A political crisis that has produced Somalia’s third prime minister in just over a year has delayed work to draw…

RAGEH OMAAR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS EDITOR Somali children learn to ride bicycles in capital Mogadishu. Credit: Reuters For almost 25 years,…

5 January 2015 23:54 (Last updated 26 January 2015 00:04) Turkish President points out new project to build 10,000 homes…

By: President of the Somali Federal Republic H.E Hassan Sheikh Mohamud Somalia is recovering. Somali national forces, working with those…

Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will visit Addis Ababa on Jan. 22 as part of his scheduled visits to several…

IGAD Council of Ministers Communiqué 53rd Extra-Ordinary Session of the IGAD Council of Ministers January 10th, 2015, Mogadishu, Somalia The IGAD…

Despite the roller coaster of political and security-related drama that dominated the headlines in this past year, I still remain…