Hope for the return of Kenya miraa to Somalia
Miraa traders have expressed optimism that the regime change in Somalia on Sunday will revive trade relations with Kenya and salvage the dwindling fortunes of khat. Somalia closed access to…
Miraa traders have expressed optimism that the regime change in Somalia on Sunday will revive trade relations with Kenya and salvage the dwindling fortunes of khat. Somalia closed access to…
“This is your country.” That’s what everyone tells me and it’s true, my mother tongue does not surround me anywhere else, and in no other country does my face blend…
Somalia’s new president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud – elected on Sunday 15 May by 54 senators and 275 lower house members from among 39 candidates – must make journalists’ safety a…
Nobody realized the boy in the wheelchair would die. A grenade had exploded in his yard, a deadly pebble in Somalia’s civil war, but even as Abdul Rahman Ali got…
Somalilanders in Edmonton will celebrate the 31st anniversary of their country’s independence on Saturday in the Canadian city. A party will be taking place at St. John’s Cultural Centre, located…
HOW DO ARTISTS view work? Take Mustafa Saeed, a self-taught Somali photographer and creative based in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, for whom work is therapy. For him, with the…
Thirty years ago, Ismail Ahmed snuck from then war-ravaged Somaliland into neighbouring Djibouti, hidden on the back of a tipper truck. His brother, who was working in Saudi Arabia, sent…
Mubarik Caaqil is a 26-year-old Optometric doctor living in Hargeisa. In 2019, he graduated from the University of Hargeisa with a Bachelor’s degree in Optometric. Today, he is the founder…
“Many families have lost everything,” said Daud Jiran, Mercy Corps Country Director for Somalia, describing the devastation across the country due to this season’s severe drought. “Pastoralists have trekked hundreds…
President Biden has signed an order authorizing the military to once again deploy hundreds of Special Operations forces inside Somalia — largely reversing the decision by President Donald J. Trump…