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The U.S. and the European Union are considering imposing sanctions and taking other action against Somalia following a decision to extend the president’s mandate without an election. President Mohamed Abdullahi, also known as Farmajo, this […]

Al-Shabaab, the Somalia-based al-Qaeda-linked extremist Islamist group, asked people in the Horn of Africa nation to reject AstraZeneca Plc shots, citing adverse side effects that led European nations to suspend the shots. “These are countries […]

Somalia said Kenya is politicizing refugee camps, which have sheltered hundreds of thousands of Somali nationals for three decades, by moving to have them closed. Kenya upped pressure on the United Nations this week to come up with a […]

Garowe-(Puntland Mirror) At least four people reportedly killed after Tropical Cyclone Gati struck the coastal areas of Puntland. The four dead people were Yemeni fishermen who their boats washed up on a beach in Hafun […]

UNITED NATIONS — The United States strongly backed efforts to disrupt the illegal financing methods used by Somalia’s al-Shabab extremist group, which according to U.N. experts raised more than the $21 million it spent last […]

President Donald Trump has told top advisers he wants to withdraw U.S. troops from Somalia, according to people familiar with the matter, allowing him to make good on campaign pledges to bring soldiers home even […]

The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on trade and supply chains around the world. Not even the niche market in camels is immune. Somalia usually ships millions of camels, goats, sheep and cattle across the […]

Somalia is resuming talks with the unrecognized government of breakaway region Somaliland, according to Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh. A delegation including Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi and Somaliland leader Muse Bihi Abdi, as well as […]

Somalia will push ahead with plans to hold presidential and parliamentary elections in early 2021, removing doubt that it will delay the vote because of the spread of Covid-19. “Holding a timely election is more important than […]

Garowe-(Puntland Mirror) Puntland Minister of Environment, Agriculture and Climate Change has died after contracting COVID-19. Ismail Diriye Gama-did, died in hospital in Mogadishu in the early hours of Monday, the ministry said in a statement […]