The List of the cabinet members announced by the Somalia PM

MOGADISHU, 12 Jan. 2015 (Qalin) – The PM announced 25 ministers, 25 deputy ministers and 9 state ministers who will replace the former cabinet that lost the vote of confidence in the parliament in December 2014.

Somalia PM announced 60 member cabinet list

MOGADISHU, 12 Jan. 2015 (Qalin) – The Somalia Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmaarke announced a cabinet list consisting of 60 members on Monday morning at a ceremony in the Statehouse in Mogadishu.

Somalia hosts the IGAD summit regardless of Alshabaab/Al Qa'ida nightmare

Mogadishu, 10 Dec. 2015 (Qalin) - The Somali federal government is hosting IGAD's foreign ministers meeting in Mogadishu in today, 10th January, 015 for the first time following decades of civil war and instability in the war-torn state.

Government warns illegal companies operating in Somalia

Mogadishu, 08 Dec. 2014 (Qalin) - The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Federal Government of Somalia has been closely monitoring the illegal activities of ARC, a Chinese company. ARC has been involved in the illegal digging and mining for minerals in the Simodi mountain ranges in the Awdal…

Somalia: President nominated former President;s son as the new PM

Mogadishu, 17 Dec. 2014, (Qalin) – Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud nominated on Wednesday Omar Abdirashid Ali as the new Prime Minister of Somalia after the Parliament sacked the former PM Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed early this month.

Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in Somalia Concludes Mission-PRESS STATEMENT

Mogadishu, 14 Dec. 2014 (Qalin) - The Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, Mr Bahame Nyanduga, concluded his first mission to the Federal Republic of Somalia today.

CPJ-Two Somali journalists killed and three injured in twin bombings in Baidoa

Nairobi, December 8, 2014-Two journalists were killed and three were wounded in a twin bombing in the south-central Somali town of Baidoa on December 5, which targeted a restaurant where journalists and officials frequently congregate.

UN OCHA ALARMS HUMANITARIAN SITUATIONS OF SOMALIA

MOGADISHU, 09 Dec. 2014 (Qalin) - UN OCHA released its Somalia Humanitarian Snapshot showing that 3.2 millions of Somali people are in need of humanitarian assistance.

Somalia invites energy companies to explore for oil

The price of oil may have fallen off a cliff recently, but that has not deterred energy giants like Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, BP and Chevron from reactivating plans to drill in Somalia.

Prime Minister Abdiweli Accepts Parliamentary Vote, Calls for Renewed Commitment to Vision 2016 and Somalia's national agenda.

MOGADISHU, 06 Dec. 2014 (Qalin) - Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed has accepted Saturday's parliamentary vote withdrawing confidence from his administration.

Somalia Parliament officially dismissed the Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed

MOGADISHU, 06 Dec.2014 (Qalin) – The Somalia parliament officially dismissed the Somalia Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed through a motion of no confidence against his government, which the Lawmakers approved Saturday.

Somalia: Deadly explosions in Baidoa city claimed 18 people dead

MOGADISHU, 05 Dec. 2014, (QalinNews) – At least 18 people were killed and more than 40 others were wounded on Friday evening in Baidoa town after twin suicide explosions rocked a hotel and a restaurant in centre of the town.

BREAKING - Twin explosions rock Baidoa town in Somalia

BAIDOA, 05 Dec. 2014, (QalinNews) - Twin explosions rocked Baidoa town in south west Somalia Friday after suicide bombers targeted a hotel and a restaurant, officials confirmed.

Alshabab claims responsibility of shooting down Kenyan jet fighter aircraft

MOGADISHU, 05 Dec, 2014 (QalinNews) - Alshabab fighters in Somalia claimed the responsibility of a Kenyan jet fighter plane that fell down in Southern Somalia Thursday as it continued bombing rural areas outside Kismayo, officials confirmed to Qalin.

Somalia: Interim Southwest Admin President inaugurated

BAIDOA, Somalia Dec 3, 2014 (Garowe Online)-The newly-elected President of Interim Southwest administration Sharif Hassan Shiekh Adan has on Wednesday been inaugurated in Bay regional capital of Baidoa with Federal Government of Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud present, Garowe Online reports.…

Students offer introduction to often-overlooked Somali culture

As music and laughter swirled around students on Friday night, knowledge about one country in the Horn of Africa passed between them. Student members of the Somali Association of Michigan hosted their annual Somali Cultural Night at the Eppley Center, and attendees from a variety of backgrounds were…

OUR ENGAGEMENT POLICY WITH THE NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES CAN SLIDE US BACK INTO CHAOS

By Shariif Mohamed Haji. In the past two decades and so, there was never a consensus on any type of military involvement in the Somalia.

Judith Tebbutt: my six months as a hostage of Somali kidnappers

"Judith Tebbutt and her husband David were looking forward to a quiet break in Kenya when kidnappers dragged her away. In an exclusive interview, she recalls her six-month nightmare"

Embracing the enemy: Put yourself in the shoes of the man working to have Nelson Mandela killed.

By Jonathan Jansen, Times Live, SA - This is "treason par excellence" shrieks the former debt collector, the son of Lithuanian immigrant Jews, in his closing prosecutorial statement in the Treason Trial of Mandela and eight others. Sabotage means a jail sentence; treason gets you hanged.

THIS MAN WAS THROWN IN A SOMALI JAIL FOR INTERVIEWING A RAPE VICTIM

By Oscar Rickett. - Everyone's talking about Somalia's future. They're talking up foreign business investment, they're talking up the new government, and they're talking up the Islamist militia al-Shabaab. Something that hasn't come up quite so much is the precarious existence of journalists in…

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