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Listen The World Bank says the only way to end piracy off Somalia’s coast is to create a viable Somali state. In a…
Listen Amnesty International (AI) has appealed to South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, The Gambia and Botswana to abolish the death penalty, which they have…
Listen More countries on Thursday expressed their commitment to continue expansion existing bilateral relations with Kenya following a peaceful conclusion of the electoral…
Listen Unusually heavy rains have caused havoc across much of east Africa, displacing thousands of people and damaging important infrastructure. “Above-normal rains have…
Listen A Japanese court on Friday sentenced an African man, one of four who attempted to hijack a Japanese tanker off the coast…
Listen A U.S. congressman from Minnesota says the recruitment of young Somali-Americans by Islamist militants in that state appears to have stopped. Representative…
Listen President Museveni’s criticism of the International Criminal Court two days ago revived the debate about retributive justice and restorative justice for victims…
Listen Western powers are in early talks on writing off Somalia’s debt, a big shift for a country that was long branded a…
Listen President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday evening met and held talks with President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud of Somalia at State House, Nairobi. During…
Listen A senior Somali cleric has escaped an assassination bid amid reports of internal divisions in Al-Shabaab, the Al-Qaeda-allied militant group suspected of…
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Listen As Somalia starts to emerge from its quagmire of instability and chaos, 20 years of relative peace and stability are starting to pay dividends for its close…
Listen By Billow Kerow The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that over…
Listen To the outsider, haggling for sheep in the livestock market here might look like an elaborate secret handshake. Two men lay a piece of cloth over their…
Listen By: Paul Ash The term Pirate is today often associated with the illegal use of another’s intellectual property. However, no such revision of the word need take…
East Africa View all
Listen More countries on Thursday expressed their commitment to continue expansion existing bilateral relations with Kenya following a peaceful conclusion of the electoral process in…
Development View all
Listen Long cut off from the rest of the world due to conflict, many people in Somalia and especially in the once volatile capital Mogadishu believe that a…
Listen Geneva (Alshahid)-Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is extremely concerned about an incident that occurred on Saturday 16June in the MSF-supported hospital in Belet Weyne, Somalia. The…
Listen Nairobi (Alshahid)-Famine conditions have ended in war-torn Somalia six months after being first declared, the UN has said. The U.N. declared famine in two parts of southern…
Listen Mogadishu (Alshahid)-A Turkish Secondary school will be opened in the Somali Capital Mogadishu in the next month, according to an Anatolia news agency report. Bilal Çelik, chairman…
IDPs View all
Listen The African Union has received an assortment of humanitarian supplies from Equatorial Guinea, including medical supplies, to be transported to Somalia, a senior official…
Piracy View all
Listen Describing the ordeal at the hands of Somali pirates for 19 months, a South Korean…
Refugees View all
Listen The African Union has received an assortment of humanitarian supplies from Equatorial Guinea, including medical…
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Listen Describing the ordeal at the hands of Somali pirates for 19 months, a South Korean…
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Listen Johannesburg (Alshahid)-Nigeria won its first Africa Cup of Nations title since 1994, beating Burkina Faso…