Somalia's parliament on Saturday passed a bill introducing universal suffrage, replacing the decades-old clan-based voting system with a one-person-one-vote framework.
The bill, which received overwhelming support with 169 lawmakers in favor, two (...)
RIYADH — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed Saudi Arabia's condemnation and denunciation of the terrorist attack that took place in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, resulting in the death and injury of dozens.
In a statement, the ministry (...)
A military court in Somalia has sentenced six Islamic State fighters from Morocco to death.
The men will be executed by a firing squad if their appeal, which they have one month to file, is unsuccessful.
"They came to Somalia to support Isis [IS} (...)
ABU DHABI/RIYADH/MANAMA — Five soldiers from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain have lost their lives in a terrorist attack on a military base in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.
The attack also resulted in injuries to two other members of (...)
The number of people killed by floods from heavy rains in Somalia has risen to 96, state news agency SONNA said on Saturday.
"Somalia's flood death toll climbs to 96," SONNA said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, adding the figure had been confirmed (...)
Somalia's Minister of Internal Security Mohamed Ahmed Sheikh Ali Doodishe has reiterated his country's support for Saudi Arabia's bid to host the World Expo 2030 in Riyadh.
In a statement to the media on Friday after a meeting by the Advisor at the (...)
A Somali sports official was suspended for nepotism on Wednesday after a viral video showed an apparent novice runner skipping across the finish line in last place at an international competition.
The video, which circulated widely on Wednesday, (...)
At least 27 people, most of them children, were killed when remnants of an old bomb exploded in Somalia's Lower Shabelle region on Friday, according to the state-run Somali National News Agency.
At least 53 people have also been injured in the (...)
RIYADH – Saudi Arabia has expressed its sincere condolences to Somalia following the munitions explosion south of Mogadishu, which caused the death and injury of a number of civilians.
In a statement published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it (...)
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed on Tuesday 1,100 food baskets to people affected by drought in the Federal Republic of Somalia, benefiting a total of 6,600 individuals.
This aid is part of the third phase of (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed 850 food baskets to individuals affected by drought in the Federal Republic of Somalia on Monday, assisting 5,400 people.
This aid is part of the third phase of the Life-Saving (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed on Sunday 600 food baskets to people affected by drought in the Federal Republic of Somalia, providing assistance to 3,600 individuals from 600 families.
This aid is part of the (...)
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) provided yesterday 850 food baskets to individuals impacted by drought, benefiting 5,100 people in the Daynile district of Mogadishu.
This aid is part of Somalia's third phase program to (...)
CEO of the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) Sultan bin Abdulrahman Al-Marshad received here today Yusuf Hussein Jimale, the Governor of Benadir Regional Administration and Mayor of Mogadishu Municipality of the Federal Republic of Somalia, and his (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed yesterday 1,460 shelter bags in Jubaland State, the Federal Republic of Somalia, benefitting 8,760 displaced and drought-affected individuals.
This distribution is part of a (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed 1,660 shelter bags yesterday to the displaced people affected by drought in Somalia, benefiting 9,960 people.
This comes within the framework of the project for distributing (...)
At least 117 militants of Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab group were killed in an operation carried out by the Somali National Army, according to local media.
The eight-hour-long operation was co-carried out by the army and Galmudug regional forces, with (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) on Saturday distributed 1,500 food baskets in Somalia, benefiting 9,000 people.
This comes as part of KSrelief's project to support food security for the neediest, displaced, and (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has distributed 4,000 winter bags in the camps of the displaced people in the Federal Republic of Somalia, benefiting 24,000 people.
This project aims to provide clothing, shelter bags, tents (...)
It was the discovery of the body of a 22-year-old woman on the streets of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, last year that brought into the open the problem of female drug addiction in the city. Health workers said she died from an opioid (...)
Somali authorities announced on Monday destroying a number of Al-Shabaab secret militia that were linked to Al-Qaeda after conducting operations in several locations in Shabelie region, south of Somalia.
According to the Somali News Agency (SONNA), (...)
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of the Republic of Somalia met in Washington D.C. with the U.S. Secretaries of Defense and State, on the sidelines of the U.S.-African Cooperation Summit.
During the meeting, they discussed climate change in Somalia, (...)
A hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, where government officials are known to stay, has come under attack.
Soon after the attack at Villa Rose began, Environment Minister Adam Aw Hirsi said he had survived the attack.
There were also unconfirmed (...)
The Secretariat General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned the terrorist attack on the Villa Rose hotel in the Somalian capital Mogadishu.
The secretariat also renewed OIC's condemnation of all forms, and its support to (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) distributed on last Monday 49 tons of food baskets in Somalia, benefiting 4,200 people.
This comes as part of the KSrelief's project to support food security for the most needy, displaced and (...)
