MOGADISHU, Somalia — The woman who broke barriers as the first female foreign minister and deputy prime minister in culturally conservative Somalia now aims for the country’s top office as ...
Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, is pushing back on Democratic President Joe Biden‘s administration’s decision to airstrike in Somalia. The Pentagon has claimed the strike was targeted against suspected ...
The US military on Tuesday carried out an airstrike against terrorist militants in Somalia — the first such strike in the country since President Joe Biden took office in January. ...
A suicide bomb targeting a senior police official killed nine people in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Saturday — the second deadly terrorist attack in the besieged city this ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Somaliland’s latest pitch for independence, fresh protests rock Sudan’s still-fragile new democracy, and Mali’s looted history. If you would like to ...
May 18, 2021, 8:51 AM To avoid a power vacuum after my four-year mandate as Somalia’s president ended on Feb. 8, Somalia’s House of the People passed legislation in 2020 ...
In an address to the nation broadcast on state media, he said he would appear before parliament on Saturday to “gain their endorsement for the electoral process”, calling on political ...
Fighters used mounds of earth to barricade roads, while armed men and vehicles mounted with machine guns were stationed in opposition strongholds after the fighting that left three dead. “Both ...
Ty McCormick’s Beyond the Sand and Sea is a heart-wrenching story that chronicles the life of a Somali family trapped in a seemingly endless state of statelessness. The book demonstrates ...
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council urged Somalia’s government on Friday to organize elections “without delay” in a resolution that stressed the pressing threat to the country’s security from ...
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