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A suicide bomber has targeted the main port in the Somalia capital Mogadishu in a dawn raid on Saturday.
The electoral commission in Somalia has called on the government to postpone upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, citing lack of security and a paucity of resources as factors militating against its work.
The Somali militant group al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a military base in the capital Mogadishu which killed two people in the early hours of Tuesday.
The Somali militant group al-Shabaab is running a centre for the treatment of coronavirus, in the town of Jilib, 380km from the capital Mogadishu, according to a spokesman on Sunday.
A new partnership bringing together private enterprise and the UK’s leading non-profit humanitarian organisation for children has been formed to tackle the challenges posed by Covid-19 in Africa.
A group of think-tankers from Europe and Africa are drawing global attention to the impact of Coronavirus in Africa which should change global politics.
One of Somalia’s most iconic musicians of the modern era has died of coronavirus in London, an organisation dedicated to the art disclosed on Wednesday.
Somalia has become the 182nd member of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), a member of the World Bank Group, following normalization of its financial relationship with the World Bank.
The World Bank Group Board of Executive Directors have moved toward normalizing its relations with the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) after thirty years.
The Somali economy is projected to grow by 2.9 percent in 2019 and projected to expand by 3.2 – 3.5 percent over the medium-term, assuming the current reform momentum continues, the World Bank said on Monday.