Somalia

World Bank approves USD 100 million for health services in Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The World Bank announced Thursday that it has approved a total of US $ 100 million to help improve health services in Somalia. The project, the World Bank's 30-year investment in Somalia's health sector, which aims to improve health services is funded by a $ 75 million grant from International Development…

Djibouti, Djibouti - Djibouti has fought against claims that its troops were sent to the common border with Ethiopia, even as the conflict between Addis Ababa and the Tigray Defense Forces rages, as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed struggles to restore order in the country. Reports of Djibouti's plans to send troops to the border with Ethiopia emerged on Tuesday, with the end game being to prevent TDF from cutting rail and road links to Djibouti as a strategy to economically stifle Addis Ababa. . Ethiopia depends on the port of…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The National Intelligence and Security Agency , police and immigration were put together by Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble, following a litany of complaints involving them in a series of incidents targeting politicians across the country. The spy agency , has often been criticized for targeting opposition politicians in a crackdown reportedly sanctioned by President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo, who has had problems with a number of his critics. More often than not, opposition leaders have…

In Somalia, for the first time since Joe Biden's arrival in the US presidency, the Americans ordered a drone strike against the Shebabs. The operation, which took place on Tuesday, July 20, targeted Islamist terrorists near Galkayo, in central Somalia. as reported from Nairobi, Sebastien nemethIt is probably the urgency that…

SNA chief clashes with AMISOM force commander over anti-Al-Shabaab offensive MOGADISHU, Somalia - A dispute has arisen between the Somali national army and the African Union Mission Forces in Somalia, reports the Voice of America, in what could potentially ruin the gains made so far in the fight against Al-Shabaab militants. VOA Somali claims that SNA chief Gen. Odowaa Yusuf Rageh wrote a…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A Kenyan plane crashed into a closed Burohache airstrip in El-Wak, Somalia, authorities said, minutes before its scheduled landing at Mandera airport in northeast Kenya, where he makes regular trips. Officials said plane number 5Y-GRS DAC Aviation International De Havilland Canada DHC-8-100 took off from Wilson Airport in Nairobi and had 45 passengers on board. The Burohache military airstrip where it landed was closed for renovation. The 45 passengers on the plane were safely evacuated by the…

NAIROBI, Kenya - A contingent of Djiboutian troops would have moved towards the common border with Ethiopia in the north, Axadle has learned, in an attempt to thwart a possible threat from the Tigray Defense Forces. , which is embroiled in a conflict with the authorities in Addis Ababa. TDF fight with Ethiopian National Defense Forces following the latter's operations in the Tigray region, which left thousands dead and millions displaced. ENDF has been temporarily withdrawn from Tigray but TDF accuses them of blocking…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The US military carried out the first drone strike against Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia, which now becomes the first-ever airstrike in the Horn of Africa country under the administration of President Joe Biden, who took up his post in January 2021. Defense ministry said Tuesday's airstrike was carried out against militants after they ambushed the Somali National Army commandos, Danab's special forces in Galkayo, a troubled town in Galmadug state in central Somalia. Pentagon spokeswoman Cindi…

United States Announces Extension and New Designation of Somalia for Temporary Protected Status MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalis living in the United States of America have received a reprieve from the Home Office, following the announcement of an extension and a new designation for temporary protected status. . Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Somalis residing in the United…

Al-Shabaab leader threatens election delegates ahead of election MOGADISHU, Somalia - Al-Shabaab says it is monitoring ongoing preparations for elections in Somalia, which threatens the future of the Horn of Africa nation, which still grapples with instability, more than three decades on the ousting of military dictator Siad Barre. Al-Shabaab, which controls vast swathes of rural central and…