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Dhusamareb (AX) — Galmudug’s newly elected lawmakers took their oaths of office Friday in Dhusamareb, setting the stage for votes to choose the state’s parliamentary and executive leadership. Mohamed Sheikh Ahmed, the…
A farmer searches through the remains of his destroyed crops/File Photo/Ergo More than 1,700 families have abandoned their homes and farmland in…
Mogadishu (AX) — Somali federal lawmakers have rejected the country’s proposed 2027 election calendar, calling on opposition groups to hold an emergency…
A health-screening operation was under way at Kenya’s Malaba border crossing on October 8, 2026, as the country confirmed a third Ebola…
On World Food Day, Nigeria’s worsening food insecurity and child malnutrition crisis is placing an immense emotional burden on caregivers. As they…
Somalia’s electoral authorities have set dates for parliamentary and presidential elections, opening a new political chapter amid deep divisions over the country’s…
Mogadishu (AX) — Somalia’s opposition lawmaker Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame has rejected the electoral timetable announced for the 2027 parliamentary and presidential elections,…
Geraldine Achiah had been married for only two months when she died in September, leaving behind an 18-year-old son who is mourning…
Mogadishu (AX) — Somalia’s former president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has asked the Supreme Court to annul amendments to the country’s provisional Constitution,…
Hargeisa (AX) — North Western State of Somalia President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro has reaffirmed his government’s close partnership with Ethiopia, saying…
Gospel music singer Olayemi Bayonile Bolaji, widely known as Toluwanisings, has died at 41, prompting an outpouring of grief from fans, colleagues…
