United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed US diplomat James Swan as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO).
A UN statement said that James Swan will lead the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the...
The Somali Federal Government’s Cabinet held its regular meeting today, which focused on the country’s security situation, drought relief, operations by the Somali National Army in areas still under terrorist control, and plans to modernize the governance system.
The meeting, chaired by the Prime Minister of the Federal Government of...
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has announced that Somalia has officially left the transitional constitutional period, following the completion of the national constitution.
In a speech, the president said that Somalia had been in a transitional regime for a long time based on a transitional constitution, but that phase had ended...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has issued a stern warning to the Eritrean leadership, saying his country will not tolerate any further attempts to harm the Ethiopian people.
Speaking in Tigrinya on the war in Tigray, Abiy strongly condemned what he described as widespread genocide and looting by Eritrean troops...
Tensions in the Middle East have escalated after the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that it had attacked or sunk more than 20 Iranian naval vessels.
The command’s press release said that one of the Iranian vessels was torpedoed while in international waters in the Indian Ocean. The incident...
Members of both houses of the Somali Parliament have unanimously approved the country’s new constitution.
The Speaker of the House of the People, Sheikh Aden Mohamed Nur (Madoobe), who chaired the meeting, announced that 222 members had approved the constitution, including 185 members of the House of the People and...
Four children have been killed in an explosion in southern Djibouti, which authorities said was suspected to have been caused by a drone, the Addis Standard reported, citing AFP.
Djibouti’s Attorney General, Hassan Mohamed Hassan, said in a statement that the explosion took place in the Dikhil region of the...
Two ministers in the Federal Government of Somalia, who are also members of the Lower House of Parliament from Puntland, have announced their resignations from their positions in the government, citing disagreements over constitutional amendments and the way the country’s governance is being run.
One of the ministers who resigned,...
The Somali government said last night that Ahmed Hurre, a senior advisor to the President of Puntland, has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in insecurity.
According to reports, Hurre was arrested at the Airport Hotel in Mogadishu while he was meeting with several members of the Federal Parliament, some...
The Minister of Petroleum and Minerals of Somalia, Dahir Shire Mohamed, has announced that the Federal Government has met with officials from the US government and investors interested in the country’s oil and mineral resources, to strengthen cooperation in exploiting the country’s natural resources.
The meeting, which took place in...