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Somalia has reopened its embassy in the UK after 32 years, in a ceremony attended by ambassador Abdulkadir Ahmed Kheyr, Olympic champion Mo Farah and Somali-Canadian model Sabrina Dhowre, among others. The embassy in London is expected to provide consular services to the nearly 500,000-strong diaspora community in the UK …

A plane has crashed and flipped over on landing at the airport in Somalia’s capital but there were no fatalities among the 36 people on board.   Dramatic footage shot near the airport in Mogadishu shows thick black smoke rising above the crash site.   Firefighters doused the flames and …

Somalia’s former leader Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has been elected president after a final vote that was only open to the country’s MPs. He defeated the current president, Mohamed Abudallahi Farmajo, who has been in office since 2017. The ballot was limited to Somalia’s 328 MPs due to security concerns over …

Somalia has formally written to the African Union to stall its decision to send former Ghana President John Dramani Mahama to the country as the AU High Representative for Somalia in an effort to mediate the political impasse in the country. In a letter dated Sunday, May 9, 2021, Somalia’s Foreign Minister …

John Mahama, a former president of Ghana, has been appointed as the African Union (AU) High Representative to Somalia, AU Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat has said. “President Mahama will work with the Somali stakeholders, to reach a mutually acceptable compromise towards an all-encompassing resolution for the holding of Somali elections in the …