Tag: Somalia
US airstrikes in Somalia
Published: Less than 30 min ago full screen US warplanes attacked positions in Somalia after an earlier attack by al-Shabaab. Here, an American F-16 plane is seen escorting two F-35…
Floods kill victims in Somalia
Published: Less than 20 min ago During the week, heavy rains and flash floods hit the central parts of Somalia hard. According to initial estimates, 22 people have died and…
Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, writer between Italy and Somalia
Ubah Cristina Ali Farah was born in 1973 to a Somali father and an Italian mother. She grew up in Mogadishu until she was 18. The outbreak of civil war…
conflict escalates in Somaliland
Since the end of February, clashes have pitted the army of this self-proclaimed state against local fighters who are demanding the return of three regions (Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (SSC))…
“A ticking time bomb” off Yemen, warns the UN
The FSO Safer, a supertanker loaded with more than a million barrels of oil, has been abandoned off the coast of Yemen since the start of the war in 2015.…
Mohamed was to be “raised” in Somalia – chained and beaten
Mohamed thought he was going to stay with relatives, but when he arrived in Mogadishu, he was put into a car and driven to the detention center. The beating began…
growing tensions with Puntland
The climate is still very tense on the border between the Somali state of Puntland and Somaliland, the self-declared state in the north of the country, around the town of…
Somalian Mo Harawe, winner of the Grand Prize at the world’s largest short film festival
Will My Parents Come To See Me, by young director Mo Harawe, won the International Grand Prize at the 45th Short Film Festival in Clermont-Ferrand, France, the largest festival in…
Visiting Somalia, the American ambassador to the UN warns of the famine
The Horn of Africa is one of the regions hardest hit by climate change From southern Ethiopia to northern Kenya via Somalia, 22 million people are threatened by hunger, victims…
IS leader killed by US in Somalia
Bilal al-Sudani was killed along with around ten other terrorists when US special forces raided a cave complex in northern Somalia on Wednesday. “The action makes the United States and…