Somalia's President appoints a New Prime Minister

Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud on Wednesday appointed Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke as the country’s new Prime Minister, becoming the third Premier to serve under the President.

SOMALIA: Meeting in southern Somalia town “Kismaayo” plans to isolate Puntland administration

Preparations are taking place in Kismaayo, Lower Jubba Region, to hold a meeting to be attended by regional administrations and the federal government.

The meeting is organized by President Hasan Shaykh Mahmud and the newly-elected southwestern regional President Sharif Hasan Shaykh Adan and will be attended by Somali and foreign delegates.

IOM, UNHCR Repatriate First Somali Refugees from Kenya

IOM, in collaboration with UNHCR, yesterday (8/12) began the voluntary repatriation of 94 Somali refugees from Kenya, 23 years after conflict and famine drove them from their homeland.

The refugees, from the sprawling Dadaab refugee complex that hosts over 350,000 Somali refugees, travelled in two IOM buses with their possessions to the Dhobley way station in Afmadow District, Lower Juba, on the Somali-Kenya border.

36 people killed in another Mandera attack

36 people have been killed and several others injured in yet another attack by Al Shabaab militants in Mandera this morning.

Somalia: US Journalist released after 32 months in Captivity

Michael Scott Moore was held in Captivity in North Central Somalia for almost three years

American journalist Michael Scott Moore has been freed in Northern Somalia on Tuesday after nearly three years of being held captive, reports confirm.

He was kidnapped by a group of Somali pirate gangs in January 2012 after landing in Galkayo town, located in North-central part of the country, where he had went to do a research about piracy.

Xaalada Puntland Faroole ka dib

8, janaayo, 2014, waxaa Puntland lagu qabtay doorasho ku dhacday si nabad galyo ah, dimuqraadiyada oo waadax ahayd, oo ay ku tartameen murashixiin badan oo uu kamid ahaa madaxweynihii xilligaas mudane Cabdiraxmaan faroole, iyo dhawr murashax madaxweyne ku-xigeeno, prof. Cabdiweli Maxamed Cali (Gaas) ayaa loo doortay madaxweynaha cusub ee dawlada Puntland oo ku guulaystay 33 cod, codadkii ay bixiyeen 66- da xildhibaan ee baarlamaanka dawlada Puntland, Cabdixakiin Xaaji Cabdulaahi Cumar(Camay) ayaa loo doortay madaxweyne-ku-xigeenka cusub ee Dawlada Puntland.

BELIEVING TO STUDY AT HOME

This brief opinion is contributed by: Mohamed Omar Ahmed, 15 September, 2014.

After the collapse of our central government of Somalia in 1991, many Somalis flew and went out of the country to the neighboring countries and far away America for business and studying purposes alike.