Somalia

Tunisian President Kais Saied consolidated his grip on the judiciary on Sunday with a decree allowing him to remove judges or block their promotion, helping to consolidate his power after he seized executive power last summer in a move his enemies call a coup. Saied outraged his opponents and intimidated democratic foreign allies with his announcement last week that he was dissolving the Supreme Judicial Council, a body that guaranteed the independence of the judiciary. A former constitutional lawyer…

Türkiye Scholarships, Turkey's immensely popular scholarship program for international students, have attracted the attention of Somali youths who plan to take advantage of their country's strengthening ties with Turkey. Since Turkey and Somalia revived their ties with a landmark visit in 2011 by then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, thousands of Somalis have benefited from the Türkiye Scholarships program and realized their dream of graduating. More than 10 years later, a large number of Somali…

The United Nations has said it still recognizes Libya's interim prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, after the eastern parliament in the war-torn country on Thursday appointed a former interior minister. Dbeibah escaped unharmed from an assassination attempt early on Thursday in the capital Tripoli. "We have seen press reports about the assassination, but we have not received any confirmation," Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, told a news conference. Dujarric…

Reduced water resources are becoming an imminent cause of conflict in the regions of the world hardest hit by climate change. The East African country of Tanzania is grappling with clashes between farmers and herders, who have often killed each other in the hunt for grazing land and shrinking water resources. In the midst of rising population growth and the worsening effects of climate change, the country's natural resources have come under increasing strain, which has put enormous pressure on land,…

MOGADISHU (AXADLE) - The southwestern state has today elected seven lawmakers amid mortar shelling that killed at least one person. MOGADISHU (AXADLE) - The southwestern state has today elected seven lawmakers amid mortar shelling that killed at least one person.According to the polling station, two women were elected at the exercise.The following persons were elected as Members of Parliament today in Barawe: 1. Salim Alihow Ibrow 2. Yusuf Adan Mohamed 3. Maryan Mohamed Ali 4. Hussein Ali Haji 5. Abdullahi Omar Abshir…

ADDIS ABABA (HORNOB SERVANT) - Mrs Fiona Lortan has been appointed Deputy Special Representative of the President of the African Union Commission (DSRCC) just months after Somalia declared its predecessor Simon Mulongo a persona non by ordering him to leave the country before seven days. In a statement, the African Union Commission for Political Affairs, Peace and Security said that the new AU Special Representative was, until her current appointment, Acting Director of Conflict Management in the Political Affairs Peace…

BELEDWEYNE (AXADLE) - Somalia's Hirshabelle President Ali Gudlawe Hussein has arrived on Sunday for his first ever visit to Baladweyne City. BELEDWEYNE (AXADLE) - Somalia's Hirshabelle President Ali Gudlawe Hussein has arrived on Sunday for his first ever visit to Baladweyne City.The president and his delegation were received by Hirshabelle officials led by his deputy Yusuf Daba-geed and Hiiraan regional officials.Gudlawe is expected to hold talks with politicians, elders and intellectuals in Beledweyne city.The leader…

Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and Somali Media Association (SOMA) call on the Galmudug authorities to investigate their Darwish police force for the raid on Sooyaal TV and Radio, a local independent media station in Abudwak city, Galgadud region, and beatings and detention director Mahad Bashir Osman for interviewing a group of police officers who went on strike on Sunday over unpaid wages. Around noon on Sunday, January 30, the heavily armed Darwish Force raided the radio station, beating…

MOGADISHU (HORNOB SERVANT) - A Swiss citizen Abdikarin Ahmedsalan Abdi, who lives in Graubünden, has succeeded in gaining protection of the terrorist group in Somalia after paying the group to threaten two defenseless families in Mogadishu, whose underage girls were raped by Abdis . adult son Mohamed Abdikarin Ahmedsalan. According to the families of the victims, the two girls, aged 10 and 11, were living with their grandmother in the Wardhigley district of Mogadishu when Ahmedsalan raped…

MOGADISHU (AXADLE) - Somalia's escalating drought is creating a massive displacement crisis. 245,000 people have already fled their homes, and the number is expected to reach 1.4 million as the drought worsens. "Somalia's drought is escalating dangerously after three failed rainy seasons and some of the lowest rainfall in 40 years," said Mohamed Abdi, country director of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in Somalia. "Without urgent preventive action to remedy the crisis, lives will be lost."…