UN migration agency warns 874,000 Somalians at risk of displacement from flooding
It says amid strengthening El Niño conditions, familes already struggling with repeated displacement, have little left to fall back on.
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It says amid strengthening El Niño conditions, familes already struggling with repeated displacement, have little left to fall back on.
Somalia's federal government said on 21 October that the Somaliland visa row over electronic visas is settled, but no written deal has been published. The post Somalia Says Somaliland Visa Row Ends 21 Oct appeared first on The Rio Times.
Families recount deaths, injuries and displacement as Trump accelerates US strikes against armed groups in Somalia.
Somalia's electoral commission set elections for parliament on 15 April 2027 and for president on 15 May, and the opposition rejects the timetable. The post Somalia Sets Elections for 15 April, 15 May appeared first on The Rio Times.
Critics say unilateral decision to call polls is a recipe for more conflict.
Somalia announced on Thursday that parliamentary and presidential elections would be held next year, despite an increasingly fractured political landscape and worries over mounting instability.
Fighting broke out in Buurhakaba, Somalia, on Thursday as forces loyal to ex-regional leader Laftagareen claimed the town on the Baidoa road. The post Somalia Fighting Hits Buurhakaba on 15 Oct appeared first on The Rio Times.
The country is consistently ranked by international organisations as being among the top regions at risk during El Niño cycles.
Almost 2 million Somali children between the ages of 6 months and almost 5 will be suffering from acute malnutrition by June, analysts predict. Many are internally displaced people who lack access to basic services.
In exclusive Al Jazeera interview, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says Israel planning a naval base in Berbera.
Somali pirates killed five crew members of the hijacked MT Honour 25 petroleum products tanker before it was rescued by security forces, Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland said on Tuesday. The deaths aboard the Palau-flagged ship appear to be the first at the hands of Somali pirates in over a decade. The ship with 17 crew members was seized by pirates in April during a resurgence of Somali piracy that experts have attributed, in part, to impacts of the Iran war, including elevated...