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British Foreign & Commonwealth Office Tuesday, May 07, 2013: The Somalia Conference took place at Lancaster House on 7 May 2013, co-hosted by the UK and Somalia, and attended by fifty-four friends and partners of Somalia. We met at a pivotal moment for Somalia. Last year Somalia’s eight-year transition ended and Somalia chose a new, [...]
Foreign Secretary William Hague has opened a new British embassy in Mogadishu – the first time the UK has had one in Somalia since 1991. The UK is the first European Union country to reopen an embassy in the country since the Federal Government of Somalia was established last year. Mr Hague said Somalia had [...]
Somalia is taking the right direction for the first time in two decades.’ Abdullahi Ali Hassan, executive director of Oxfam Novib’s partner CED, reacts to the election of Hassan Sheik Mohamoud as his country’s new president. Abdullahi Ali Hassan: ‘I am optimistic that his government will restore peace and stability.’ Photo:Center for Education and Development [...]
(Reuters) – Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has named Abdi Farah Shirdon Saaid as the country’s new prime minister, diplomats and a government source said, the first major decision by an administration installed after over 20 years of conflict. Saaid, a political newcomer, has been a prominent businessman in neighboring Kenya and is married to [...]
(Reuters) – Kenyan troops attacked the Somali port city of Kismayu from three sides on Friday in an assault to drive the al Shabaab militant group from its last bastion. Fighting was taking place on the city’s beaches after an amphibious assault, the military and resident said. The loss of the southern port would deal [...]
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convened a mini-summit on Somalia in New York on 26 September 2012 on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly. His Excellency President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia attended by video teleconference from Mogadishu and was represented in New York by Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali. Participants included Jean Ping, Chairperson [...]
(AP) The death of Ethiopia’s prime minister pushed his relatively unknown successor, Hailemariam Desalegn, into the spotlight on Tuesday, and he may be merely a placeholder or might hang on to become Ethiopia’s next long-time leader. Ethiopia’s communication minister said government policy would remain consistent under Hailemariam, the former deputy prime minister and foreign minister who [...]
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has died at the age of 57, state media say, after weeks of speculation about his health. Mr Meles was admitted to hospital in July. The nature of his condition has not been made public. Speculation about his health began when he missed an African Union summit in Addis Ababa [...]
MOGAIDHU, Somalia (AP) – Somali leaders are on the verge of naming a new parliament that is supposed to elect a president by Monday, but it’s hard to find any ordinary Somalis excited by the political changes: They don’t have the right to vote. Monday marks the end of eight years of rule by a [...]
{BBC}-Britain’s Mo Farah claimed his second gold of the 2012 Olympics with a stunning win in the 5,000m. Victory for the 29-year-old, who won the 10,000m earlier in the Games, took the host nation’s tally of golds to 27 on the penultimate day of action. Diver Tom Daley and boxer Luke Campbell can add to [...]