Puntland and Somaliland forces are fighting in the Tukaraq area of Sool region and the fighting is lasting more than two hours. Large weapons are detected in battlefields and outlying areas.Puntland officials said they had captured the prisoners as well as captured the base of the recently captured Puntland forces in Somaliland, and the bodies

“The people of Lasanod have been banned from all meetings, consultations and so called civilian casualties,” said one of the Somaliland officials in Lasanod, including the lawmakers of Somaliland’s House of Representatives. The region was hit by a series of barrages after Puntland decided to tackle the situation in Tukaraq and the Sool region. Lasanod

The Government of Mozambique has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Great Lakes Africa Energy to generate electric power using natural gas for domestic use at an estimated value of US $400 million. The agreement signed last Friday in Maputo, Mozambique with GLAE, a United Kingdom registered Pan African energy solutions provider, will involve the

ISLAMABAD-Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Wednesday witnessed signing of an agreement between Pakistan and Somalia for grant of US$ 10.5 million and provision of technical assistance for development of Somalia’s National Identification System. The signing ceremony here at the Prime Minister Office was attended by Minister for Finance Miftah Ismail, Special Assistant to Prime Minister

Expatriates working in Kenya have been given 60 days to regularise their status with the authorities as the government intensifies a crackdown on illegal foreign workers in the country. The interior minister, Fred Matiang’i said the government is determined to weed out undocumented foreigners because they are a security threat and deny the government tax

Mogadishu- Somali Times Mogadishu Mayor and Governor of Banadir region Mr. Abdirahman Omar Osman said the heavy rains in the last 48 hours have been caused by a variety of casualties. $ 35 Million US Dollar. The mayor said the capital loss in addition to that there is a humanitarian crisis and urgent needs, especially

The Ethiopian government says all its nationals being held in jails in the United Arab Emirates are due to be released soon. This follows a meeting between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and UAE Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed in Abu Dhabi over the weekend. Addis Ababa said they were now waiting for numbers and

Saudi Arabia will soon release Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi, an Ethiopian-born Saudi billionaire arrested in November 2017 during a crackdown on corruption, Ethiopia’s prime minister said. Abiy Ahmed made the remarks late on Saturday after arriving from the Gulf kingdom, where he met Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a two-day visit. Al Amoudi, a

Mogadishu – The humanitarian branches of the Federal Government of Somalia and the United Nations today launched an appeal for $80 million to provide immediate help for people affected by recent flooding in the country’s centre and south – resulting from the heaviest rainfall experienced in Somalia in more than three decades. The appeal falls

Mogadishu -Somalia’s foreign affairs minister, H E Ahmed Issa Awad, said there was no negotiation between the Somali Federal government and the Kenya on the eve of the International Criminal Court (ICC) trial. Mr Awad has confirmed that there is no formal contact between Kenya and Somalia that the Hegue Tribunal is to settle the dispute