Climate
Somalia prepares for floods that could displace 874,000
The UN migration agency is working with Somali authorities on early warning, but has only 14% of the money it needs.
East Africa
Somalia
The latest news from Somalia: politics, business, technology, culture, sport and more.
Technology
24 satellites could help Africa catch illegal fishing boats
Illegal fishing costs Africa up to $13bn a year. An aerospace researcher has designed a satellite constellation for the Somali Basin, but says enforcement matters most.
Politics
Somalia sets elections for April and May 2027; opposition rejects the timetable
Parliamentary elections are set for 15 April and the presidential vote for 15 May. Voter registration reopens on 1 November.
Politics
In Baidoa, fighting returns to a city already starving
Two million Somali children are malnourished. The World Food Programme, which once fed four million people a month, now reaches 670,000.
Diaspora
Trump tells Minnesotans to 'fight back' against Somali immigrants
The White House has not said what the president meant. Minnesota is home to the largest Somali community in the United States.
Health
Somalia sets up a six-ministry Ebola committee as the outbreak reaches the region
The cabinet approved preparedness measures days after Kenya confirmed its first death. The government has not said whether any case has been detected in Somalia.
Politics
Somalia says it has killed the former head of al-Shabab's intelligence wing
The national intelligence agency says Bashir Ahmed Haji Nunow, who ran the group's feared Amniyat unit for eight years, died in an operation in Jilib on 1 October.
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