The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Mr. Ahmed Issa Awad, addressed the United Nations General Assembly on a number of issues related to the political and economic situation in the country.The Minister focused his focus on the security, political and economic gains that the Federal Government achieved.

Former Deputy Speaker of the Kenyan National Assembly Farah Maalim has alleged that the US is secretly mining and exporting minerals from Somalia. In a tweet the Kenyan politician who is a regular commentator on Somalia and Horn of Africa issues fell short of naming the minerals he alleges to be secretly exported. ” Every

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s attorney general on Friday filed terrorism charges against five suspects held for involvement in a grenade attack at a rally attended by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in June. Two people were killed and scores wounded in the explosion in the center of the capital Addis Ababa on June 23 that

“Ethiopia and Eritrea have opened a new chapter in their relationship, ending two decades of conflict,” he told world leaders on the third day of the Assembly’s annual general debate. Citing his Prime Minister’s continued actions for peacemaking in the region, he detailed the extensive lengths to which Ethiopia has fostered peaceful relations with other

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A proposed regional security alliance bringing together the United States, Gulf allies, Egypt and Jordan, is at risk of credibility if a Gulf dispute is not resolved, Qatar’s foreign minister said on Friday. Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut off travel and trade ties with Qatar in June 2017, accusing

Mogadishu – Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency says it captured Somali explosives expert from the al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab group in the Somali capital and obtained key intelligence information. In a tweet sent on Friday, the agency says its special forces, acting upon an intelligence tip offs have captured the unnamed bomb expert whom officials

UK, Somalia, Italy and Ethiopia brought together international partners in support of Somalia’s security, political and economic reforms.Minister for Africa Harriett Baldwin co-hosted the meeting at the UN General Assembly in New York, with Foreign Minister Ahmed Issa Awad of Somalia, State Minister Hirut Zemene of Ethiopia and Enzo Moavero Milanesi, Minister of Foreign Affairs

A Copenhagen policewoman is being investigated for embracing a niqab-wearing protestor during a demonstration against a ban on face veils, the force’s complaints body said on Wednesday. The incident, in which the protester appeared to be crying, was captured by a Reuters photographer on Aug. 1 when a countrywide ban on the wearing of face

JOHANNESBURG (AP) – The European Union says it has approved 100 million euros ($116 million) in its first-ever budget support to Somalia’s government in the latest sign of confidence in a country long shattered by conflict. The EU announcement comes a day after the World Bank said it would provide $80 million in direct financing

Somaliland’s separatist administration is said to have been a major contributor to a military base in the coastal city of Saylac over the past few months. The report comes after a series of meetings between the Somali Federal Government and the Government of the Federal Republic of Russia in New York on the sidelines of the