The move comes as a response to rising tensions over a controversial port deal - involving Ethiopia leasing 20km of coastline in Somaliland, a territory that Somalia claims as its ... Read more »
Both countries say they must make up for lost time - and with the peace pact, landlocked Ethiopia can now use, tax-free, the Red Sea ports in Assab, in the south of Eritrea, and in ... Read more »
Fast-rising actor Barkhad Abdi is set to star in a new Hollywood thriller titled, Eye in the Sky. Read more »
Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland announced its withdrawal from the federal system, opting to govern independently until constitutional amendments proposed by the ... Read more »
Somaliland declared its independence from Somalia in 1991, from which point the two moved in markedly different directions. While the latter was engulfed in conflict, the former ... Read more »
The World Bank has said that the normalising of relations means that Somalia is in now in good standing with the lender. It said the government's "strong record of fiscal, ... Read more »
Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo has signed a law that gives the central government powers to sell the country's oil blocks for commercial drilling. Four of the oil ... Read more »
The Somali-American actor is set to join the cast of Blade Runner 2. Barkhad Abdi made his acting debut as a Somali pirate in Captain Phillips. Read more »
Presidential aspirants will have to fit a certain criteria as announced by the electoral commission before they can apply to be the country's leader. Among other things, candidates ... Read more »
Both houses of Parliament are expected to vote on proposed amendments to the counrtry's Constitution which would reduce the age of maturity, thus increasing the risk of child ... Read more »
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