The two-week exercise will be financed by US while Ethiopia provides venues and platforms for the drills. The contributing countries to the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, Rwanda, and Uganda – are to be the focal participants. US Army Africa Commanding General Roger L. Cloutier said at the launch of the

Photo/Facebook page Hodan Nalayeh Family and friends of Hodan Nalayeh are remembering the Somali-Canadian journalist killed in a terrorist attack this week for her work redefining the global Somali identity through positive storytelling. Nalayeh, a broadcast reporter born in Somalia with roots in Edmonton and Toronto, died with her husband in an attack at a

Photo/Somali Times Kismayo. (Somali Times). The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, HE Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has sent condolences to the families and relatives of the Somali national who died in the terror attack in Kismayo. President Mohamed has called on the international community to step up its efforts to stabilize the Horn of

Photo/Somali Times Somali diaspora escape the civil war, but the people are more than welcome to come back and get their property Mayor of Mogadishu and Benadir Regional Governor; Eng Abdirahman Omar Osman handed over a key to a Somali citizen Lul Mohamed Ahmed, she left in 1991 Mogadishu when the civil war started property

Photo/Somali Times The death toll from the attack on a hotel in Somalia’s port city of Kismayu has risen to 26, with Kenyans, Americans, a Briton and Tanzanians among the dead, Jubbaland region’s president said on Saturday. A presidential candidate for upcoming regional elections was also killed in the assault by four militants, Jubbaland president

Photo/Facebook Page Hodan Naleeye, According to Associated Press at least 10 people confirmed dead. The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab extremist group, which often targets , claimed responsibility for the attack. Those killed include Canadian journalist Hodan Nalayeh, local officials confirmed . Hodan Nalayeh is the founder and host of Integration TV , an English TV show that

A car bomb went off on Friday at a hotel in Somalia’s port city of Kismayu where local elders and lawmakers had been discussing an upcoming regional election and was followed by gunfire, police said, adding that the death toll could be high. The militant Islamist group al Shabaab, which is trying to topple Somalia’s

Faduma Hassan, who has been a massive supporter of politician and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Somalis in the Diaspora have, over the years, chalked major successes in the political landscape of the various host countries that they have had to adjust to in the midst of challenges. In recent years, Ihan Omar made headlines

Photo/Somali Times The Somali National Armed Forces have executed Three Al Shabaab attackers have been executed in Mogadishu for their role in the 2017 attack on the Hotel NASA Hablod. 1-Farhan Mohamed Samatar, 2 Abdinasir Dhagane Hassan 3, Abshir Mohamed faced the firing squad for the incident in which 18 people were killed and injured

Photo/Somali Times Mogadishu, The Director of the Office Somali President Abdinur Mohamed Ahmed has spoken of a false report by some media outlets, which said it has not changed the State’s position on the issue of the ICJ case. “We strongly denounce the false reports of some of the media that have altered the position