Tag: Somalia
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…
Latest news – Somalia has captured an important port city
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Global launch of MyFrenchFilmFestival 2023, the flagship of French cinema online
The largest French-speaking online film festival opens this Friday, January 13 on MyFrenchFilmFestival.com and 70 partner platforms around the world. This original event including 29 films subtitled in 12 languages…
Fishermen return to Iran years after being kidnapped in Somalia
An official ceremony welcomed this Sunday, December 25 evening at Tehran airport the fourteen Iranian fishermen who had been detained in Somalia by the Shebabs for several years. They had…
the army announces the liberation of Middle Shabelle, a stronghold of the Shebabs
Middle Shabelle, an agricultural province north of Mogadishu, would be entirely taken over by the Shebabs, according to the Somali army. It would be a major victory six months after…
Sent school millions to Somalia – sentenced by the Court of Appeal
Instead of going to the Swedish school activities, roughly twelve million kroner of the school money disappeared to, among other things, Somalia. Now the Court of Appeal confirms the verdict…
an attack by Shebabs in Mogadishu in a context of “total war”
In Somalia, the Shebab jihadists, affiliated with al-Qaeda, carried out a new attack on Sunday evening in the heart of the capital, Mogadishu, attacking a hotel where many officials are…