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The fencing of three kilometres of the Kenya-Somalia border is complete after the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) took over its construction over two months ago. The project, initiated by the Ministry of Interior in 2015 as a wall project, has since been switched to wire fencing along the porous border. Concrete poles joined with barbed […]

Jowhar, Cadaado, 29 November 2016 – Seven more candidates have been elected in the past two days to the House of the People in the ongoing electoral process in Galmudug and HirShabelle States. Two of the five candidates elected in Cadaado on Monday and Tuesday are women. They are Maryam Mohamed Hussein and Maryam Haji […]

South West state added five more MPs to the House of the People today, among them one woman, in elections held in the administrative capital, Baidoa. To date, South West state has filled 43 seats in the Lower House, out of an allocation of 69 seats, of which five have been won by women. The […]

With its security-sealed plastic boxes and cardboard polling booths, Somalia’s election – under way since last month and still ongoing – has the trappings of democracy, but few of the functions. Last week in the western city of Baidoa, 51 handpicked representatives of the Reer Aw Hassan clan took an hour to vote unanimously for […]

Abdullahi Sheikh Abas has become the first man born in a refugee camp to defeat a Somali minister to become a member of parliament.Twitter/Radio Diaspora Born in Kenya’s largest refugee camp, Abdullahi Sheikh Abas, 31, has made headlines after he defeated a prominent Somali official to become a member of parliament. These are the first […]

In mid-June, six buses carrying more than 387 people departed Dadaab camp in North-eastern Kenya travelled into Somalia. UNHCR assists returning refugees with cash grants, core relief items, food and other community-based support programs. Photo: UNHCR/Assadullah Nasrullah – The Office of the United Nations High Commissionson Refugees (UNHCR) welcomed today a statement today from theGovernment […]

Joles, David – Star Tribune Gallery: Following the sentencing of Hanad Musse to 10 years in prison and 20 years supervised release, supporters of Musse became emotional in a hallway inside the Federal Courthouse Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016, in Minneapolis, MN. None of the family members would give their names. late Tuesday afternoon, closing an […]

Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed, Deputy President William Ruto and Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara at the Presidential Palace in Abidjan on Tuesday last week / DPPS   has chartered a private plane for Deputy President William Ruto’s pan-African campaign for Foreign Affairs CS Amina Mohamed in a move reminiscent of the Sh100 million […]

Ilhan Omar gives an acceptance speech on election night in Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 8, 2016. Omar, a former refugee from Somalia, is the first Somali-American Muslim woman to hold public office. PHOTO Minnesota voters have elected the first Somali-American Muslim woman legislator in a state where the uneasy assimilation of large numbers of Somali refugees […]