Oslo-The Norwegian government has announced that $ 54.3 million will contribute to the reconstruction and development of Somalia’s infrastructure, saying that the economy is moving to Somalia by various banks below the World Bank. He added that the economy is intended to counter Somalia’s armed conflicts and other security challenges. Norway’s Minister for Development Cooperation

Nation at strait linking Gulf of Aden to Red Sea connects global shipping routes, with most foreign bases in world In 1991 thousands of Ethiopians, military men and women included, made an arduous journey, crossing the border from the Horn of Africa nation of Eritrea into the tiny nation of Djibouti. They fled as Eritrean

The United Nations plans to replace an envoy who was expelled from Somalia after questioning the arrest of a political candidate with an extremist history, the world body said Friday. The announcement came after three days of diplomatic back-and-forth over Somalia’s expulsion of Nicholas Haysom, a longtime U.N. official who has also served as envoy

UN renews call for independent investigation with ‘international involvement’ The United Nations Human Rights Office spokeswoman said on Friday that a trial taking place in Saudi Arabia into Oct. 2 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was “not sufficient.”Speaking to press members in Geneva, Ravina Shamdasani reiterated the office’s call for an independent investigation, “with international

AP Photo/Susan Walsh History was on Ilhan Omar’s mind as she arrived in Washington DC this week. The 36-year-old Democrat from Minnesota’s 5th Congressional district became the first Somali-American, one of two Muslim women, among the unprecedented number of women lawmakers, and part of the largest congressional black caucus elected to the US House of

Somalia on Thursday told the UN Security Council not to interfere in its national affairs after expelling a UN envoy who questioned the government’s decision to arrest an al-Shabaab defector running for election. Somali Ambassador Abukar Dahir Osman did not specifically mention his government’s decision to order Nicholas Haysom to leave but he argued that

Photo (AP) A U.N. envoy who was recently ordered to leave Somalia says political tensions could devolve into conflict, while Somalia’s U.N. ambassador says his country embraces international institutions but not individual “conduct that has a detrimental effect” on the nation. Both addressed the Security Council Thursday. The envoy, Nicholas Haysom, didn’t directly address this

PA Archive/PA Images Harris Primary Academy Philip Lane in north London is one of the schools embroiled in a row about ‘cheating’ during Ofsted inspections National Education Union is now calling for the government to step in, after Ofsted “failed to act” on a number of troubling allegations. One of the country’s top-performing chains of

Mogadishu-General Bashir Abdi Mohamed, the commander-in-chief of Somali police force announced that they have prepared 1,000 soldiers to join the forces tasked with Mogadishu security. The police boss underlined that the new recruits have completed their training courses in Mogadishu and will shortly begin work in the capital which has seen frequent attacks. He expressed

Mogadishu-The United Nations is looking into the expulsion of UN Special Representative for Somalia Nicholas Haysom from Mogadishu, UN Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq said in a press briefing on Wednesday. “We are looking into the matter, we are trying to get the various details corroborated, and we are going to see based on that what