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Farmaajo signs resolution allocating Mogadishu 13 seats in the Senate

0 Visits: 2095 | Friday January 29, 2021 - 04:07:47
Sunatimes.com - President Mohamed Farmaajo has signed a resolution allocating 13 seats to Banaadir region in effect expanding the Senate from 54 to 67 members. Villa Somalia said Thursday the president assented to a resolution passed by the Lower House last June which sought to create representation…

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The Fall of Siad Barre and Civil War ( Part Two)

0 Visits: 2581 | Friday January 29, 2021 - 02:57:41
Sunatimes.com - Thirty years ago this week President Siad Barre's regime was overthrown. Why? In answer to that question lies with what others ( Foreign observers wrote about that historical fact of Somalia. It is important to note that thirty years is a long time. Nearly, Seventy five percent of…

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No evidence to show Kenya interfering with Somalia affairs, IGAD team report says

0 Visits: 1928 | Wednesday January 27, 2021 - 20:46:39
In summary ( This article is the editor's pick). • It recommended that more diplomatic efforts be deployed at the highest level in order to reconcile the two sisterly countries of Kenya and Somalia. • Somalia claimed there is a violation of the airspace of Somalia, violation of Somalia's…

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Somalia dismisses IGAD report, says 'influenced' by Kenya

0 Visits: 2017 | Wednesday January 27, 2021 - 12:21:46
Somalia has poured cold water on the newly released IGAD report on tiff with Kenya noting that the findings were not based on factual information from the ground and instead largely relied on Kenyan sources.

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The Somali health Service Collapses

0 Visits: 2659 | Tuesday January 26, 2021 - 22:19:48
Sunatimes.com - As Covid-19 cases continues to soar in Somalia, serious discontentment is growing due to misappropriation of funds within the ministry of Health in the country. Twelve top officials among them the Director General in the ministry have already been charged in court and convicted of corruption…

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Somalia: Jubbaland civilians were killed and injured and their properties were damaged

0 Visits: 1881 | Tuesday January 26, 2021 - 10:36:05
Proper Reconciliation Sunatimes.com - Forces loyal to the president of Jubaland clashed with Somali government forces who are stationed there. There were deaths and injuries and the most it was thought to be have been among civilians who had been caught unawares in the fighting. The Somali information…

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British Government: "shocked and saddened" by further reports from Tigray of massacres and Eritreans forcibly returned

0 Visits: 2101 | Monday January 25, 2021 - 17:35:06
Questions by Lord Alton, Vice-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Eritrea in the UK Parliament and responses from the British Government Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL12040):

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Somalia: Jubbaland Massacre is not acceptable

0 Visits: 2199 | Monday January 25, 2021 - 16:35:38
Sunatimes.com - Violence Is Not Acceptable The reports of Jubaland violence is disheartening for the locals who have been struggling to cope with severe drought. The people in that region said that they did not get enough rains last season and life there is very hard for them as most of boreholes dried…

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UAE opens kidney dialysis centre in Hargeisa, Somaliland

0 Visits: 1888 | Sunday January 24, 2021 - 12:10:34
Sunatimes.com - The facility will benefit more than 30 patients per day.A delegation from the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation has opened a kidney dialysis centre in Somaliland for the benefit of more than 30 patients per day.

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Electoral frauds in Somalia once for all - High Public expectation

0 Visits: 2138 | Saturday January 23, 2021 - 10:34:48
Sunatimes.com - In the last few days there were shuttled diplomacy on the part of UN envoy to mediate the Somali Federal States and the Federal Government in an attempt to bring about all inclusive elections to take place in Somalia. All parties were encouraged to compromise and work effectively in…

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Somali troops may have been drawn into Ethiopia's civil war

0 Visits: 2825 | Saturday January 23, 2021 - 04:40:26
Sunatimes.com - Multiple sources suggest that Somali troops may be fighting alongside Eritrean forces in the war in Ethiopia's Tigray region. But, in a tweet, the Somalia government "strongly denied false reports" that Somali soldiers were killed in the Ethiopian war.

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Somali soldiers have been sent to fight in Ethiopia's deadly Tigray

0 Visits: 2001 | Saturday January 23, 2021 - 04:30:10
Sunatimes.com - Pressure is growing on Somalia's government amid allegations that Somali soldiers have been sent to fight in neighboring Ethiopia's deadly Tigray conflict. Mothers have held rare protests in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, and elsewhere, demanding to know the fate of their…

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Somalia:UN silently crafting AMISOM's future without AU's input

0 Visits: 2128 | Saturday January 23, 2021 - 01:12:17
The UN is silently working out a new direction for the African Union force in Somalia (AMISOM) locking out the continent's voice as the mission which has been in operation for over a decade faces an uncertain future amid absence of stability in Somalia.

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In St. Cloud Somali language class, using greetings to build connection

0 Visits: 2428 | Saturday January 23, 2021 - 01:08:55
Sunatimes.com - On an evening last November, Farhiya Iman spoke to a screenful of faces on a Zoom call — among them: A retired Spanish teacher, a doctor, a librarian, a graduate student and a judge. She explained how to say "Good morning" in the Somali language: "Subax wanaagsan."

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Somalia:Business magnate Abdi Hosh dies in Mogadishu

0 Visits: 3924 | Saturday January 23, 2021 - 00:27:41
Sunatimes.com - Former military man and business magnate Abdi Hosh Ashkir who made a name in the 1970s through marine resources exports and real estate has died. Ashkir died in Mogadishu Friday. The circumstances surrounding his death were not immediately clear.

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Somali PM calls for investigation into the killing of Hodan DC

0 Visits: 2175 | Friday January 22, 2021 - 01:48:38
Sunatimes.com - The Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia, Mohamed Hussein Roble, strongly condemned the Hodan district commissioner's assassination in Mogadishu last night.

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Somali parliament demands Farmaajo comes clean on Somalis 'fighting' in Tigray war

0 Visits: 2010 | Friday January 22, 2021 - 01:40:39
Sunatimes.com - Somalia's parliament has demanded an explanation from President Mohamed Farmaajo on the whereabouts and state of hundreds of Somali youth who were reportedly undergoing military training in Eritrea.

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Mogadishu: Manhunt Underway After District Commissioner Killed

0 Visits: 1911 | Friday January 22, 2021 - 01:21:01
Sunatimes.com - Manhunt operation is underway after police officers shot dead a district commissioner in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, hours after he returned from an overseas medical trip. The Mayor of Mogadishu Omar Filish ordered action taken against those involved in the murder of the official…

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US Secretary of State Nominee Terms Ethiopia's Tigray War as "Aggression"

0 Visits: 1784 | Friday January 22, 2021 - 01:16:34
Sunatimes.com - US Secretary of State Nominee Antony Blinken has termed the war raging in Ethiopia's Tigray region as an "aggression" and raised fear it might spill over to other countries in the Horn of Africa region. Asked whether he would appoint a special envoy to Horn of Africa as conflict…

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Ethiopia Blames 'Third Party' for Sudan's Capture of Land on Disputed Border"

0 Visits: 1918 | Thursday January 21, 2021 - 23:16:58
Sunatimes.com - Ethiopia has called on Sudan to avoid "trap" set by a third party that wants to lead it to war and get ready to resolve the border dispute with Ethiopia through negotiations.

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