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The 14 October 2017 bomb blast that ripped through the capital city of Mogadishu and killed more than 500 civilians is still fresh in the mind of Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdulle. The reporter for the Voice of America’s Somali…

PRESS STATEMENT 10/2018 Mogadishu – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia, Nicholas Haysom, expressed his solidarity with the victims of a devastating suicide bombing in central Mogadishu a…

Fadumo Haji Ali is lucky to be alive. She is a survivor of the devastating 14 October 2017 explosion that shattered Mogadishu, killing more than five hundred civilians and leaving hundreds more nursing injuries of varying…

Briefing the Security Council for the last time in his capacity as UN Special Representative for Somalia, Michael Keating called on all Somalis to draw strength from the positive transformations going on inside the country…

Ahead of the completion of his assignment at the top UN official in Somalia, Michael Keating took some time out to look back on his years of service and the outlook for the Horn of Africa country. Mr. Keating’s appointment as…

Madam President, My tour of duty comes to an end next week. On the day that I arrived in Mogadishu in January 2016, I was taken straight to the President’s office to discuss a threat by federal member states’ to suspend…

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today announced the appointment of Nicholas Haysom of South Africa as his Special Representative for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia. He…

Mogadishu – The top United Nations official for Somalia has encouraged the country’s authorities to proceed quickly with the ratification of a treaty safe-guarding and promoting the rights of people with disabilities…

Najah Aden Farah is 22-years-old and already a published author of four books. But her love of books is not limited to writing them – it extends to helping her fellow Somalis improve their literacy, especially as many missed…

PRESS RELEASE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN SOMALIA: STILL NOT A GIVEN UN report finds despite some advances, lack of legislation hampering progress Mogadishu – Somalia has made progress in ensuring the right to freedom of…