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Somalia has failed to meet a crucial deadline that would have seen elections held on February 8, 2021, APA can report on Monday.
Mogadishu on Tuesday stunned the diplomatic world after announcing it was severing ties with Kenya, but is this sustainable given how culturally and geographically intertwined these neighbours are?
Two security guards have been killed and several others injured after a bomb blast at a military compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday.
Somalia’s main port in the capital Mogadishu is set to be managed by a Turkish firm after an agreement to this effect was inked on Monday.
The electoral commission in Somalia has revealed the details of a new elections timetable, with parliamentary polls scheduled for later this year while the presidential vote takes place early next year, APA can report on Friday.
Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo is in talks with the leaders of the semi autonomous regions of Jubaland and Puntland on Thursday over a common approach to the country’s next elections.
The deputy district commissioner in Lower Shabelle region, in southern Somalia has been killed by an explosion from a grenade, APA can report on Monday.
A shortage of the local stimulant khat in Somalia caused by ongoing Covid-19 inspired health restrictions is leaving a heavy toll on the country’s army of consumers, APA learnt Thursday.
Mogadishu, the Somali capital woke up to heightened security on Tuesday, a day after the country’s army chief General Yusuf Rage survived an assassination blast.
At least five people have been killed in simultaneous attacks in Somalia biggest cities of Mogadishu and Baidoa on Saturday.