26.06.2006
"My name is Mohammed Sokor, writing to you from Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab. Dear sir, there is an alarming issue here. People are given too few kilogrammes of food. You must help." The UN World Food Programme receives a direct appeal from a disaster zone in the Horn of Africa.
*OneWorld UK's Mobile for Good
01.08.2005
Sobha Renaissance Information Technology (SRIT) has won a US$25 million Somalian e-governance contract for the installation of 'ePassport' and 'eAuthentication' systems.
26.09.2003
Slowly, but effectively, the Internet is empowering women in Africa to follow events as they have never witnessed before. The latest case in point is the women in Somalia who have been following their country's peace talks in neighbouring Kenya via the Internet.
19.09.2003
Somalia is home to some of the world's poorest people. Yet, amidst all the anarchy of a country reduced to ruins by civil war and over 12 years of protracted power struggles between warlords, some things still shine bright: it has one of the best and cheapest telecommunications systems in Africa.
30.07.2003
With severe lack of basic infrastructure, war-torn Somalia is a nation lying in ruins over the past decade. Yet, amid the chaos, the telecommunication facilities continue to function and flourish in an unhindered manner.
26.03.2003
Macallinka Raddiyaha, which in Somali means "The Radio Teacher", is a project launched in Somalia by the BBC World Service Trust and the Africa Educational Trust. The education project aims to teach rural Somalian men and women reading and writing through radio programming.
01.12.2001
Somalia's only Internet provider has been shut down, effectively shutting Somalian citizens out of any Internet connection, due to suspicions by the United States that it has connections to the Al Qaeda network.
29.11.2001
As a part of the war against Osama bin Laden's terror network, two firms suspected by the United States of terrorist connections, the Somalia Internet Company and al-Barakaat, have been shut down. SIC is the nation's only Internet provider, and its closure has effectively shut Somalian citizens out of any Internet connection.
