The latest market, economy, central-bank, policy and company stories from Somalia, updated every 15 minutes. Last updated 19 October 2026.
| GDP growth (2025) | 3.0% | Moderate growth. |
| Unemployment (2025) | 18.9% | High: many people can’t find work. |
| GDP per person (2025) | $661 | Average output per person: a rough measure of how wealthy a country is. |
| Exports (2025) | 29.2% of GDP | An open, trading economy. |
Latest official annual figures from World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0). Context, not a forecast or financial advice.
Mogadishu (HOL) — A coalition of Somali civil society organizations urged the federal government and opposition leaders to immediately resume negotiations over the country’s elections to avoid political disputes and deepen instability.
Dhusamareb (HOL) — Newly elected members of Galmudug State’s Parliament were sworn in Friday in Dhusamareb town ahead of elections for parliamentary and regional leadership.
Mogadishu (HOL) — A group of Somali federal lawmakers calling themselves the Independent Federal Parliament has urged the Somali Future Council and other opposition groups to convene an emergency meeting to establish an alternative election timetable and appoint a committee to oversee the process.
[RFI] Somalia's election commission has announced it will hold parliamentary and presidential polls in April and May next year, but critics say the decision will lead to more conflict in a deeply fragmented country facing a long-running Islamist insurgency.
[Shabelle] Mogadishu -- Somalia's federal government on Thursday welcomed an election timetable announced by the Independent National Electoral and Boundaries Commission, covering elections for both houses of parliament and the president.
Mogadishu (HOL) — Former Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has filed a petition with the Supreme Court seeking to overturn amendments to Somalia’s provisional Constitution, rejecting the newly announced 2027 election timetable and warning that the dispute could lead to parallel elections and civil conflict.
Mogadishu (HOL) — Somali opposition lawmaker Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame has rejected the electoral commission’s newly announced timetable for the 2027 parliamentary and presidential elections, warning that proceeding without a broad political agreement could deepen divisions and trigger renewed conflict.
Somalia’s election commission has announced that parliamentary and presidential elections will be held in the country next year.
The government has called for all parties to engage with the process "in good faith" and peacefully.
Critics say unilateral decision to call polls is a recipe for more conflict.
[Shabelle] Mogadishu -- Somalia's National Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has announced a timetable for federal parliamentary and presidential elections in 2027, setting the parliamentary vote for April 15 and the presidential election for May 15.
Mogadishu (HOL) — Former Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo on Thursday rejected the federal electoral commission’s newly announced timetable for 2027 parliamentary and presidential elections, warning that proceeding without a broader political agreement could deepen divisions and produce competing electoral…
Mogadishu (HOL) — Former Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo on Thursday rejected the federal electoral commission’s newly announced timetable for 2027 parliamentary and presidential elections, warning that proceeding without a broader political agreement could deepen divisions and produce competing electoral…
Mogadishu (HOL) — Somalia’s National Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (NIEBC) on Thursday announced that elections for both houses of the Federal Parliament will be held on April 15, 2027, followed by a presidential election on May 15, despite an unresolved political dispute between the federal…
Mogadishu (HOL) — Somalia’s National Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (NIEBC) on Thursday announced that elections for both houses of the Federal Parliament will be held on April 15, 2027, followed by a presidential election on May 15, despite an unresolved political dispute between the federal…
Dhusamareb (HOL) — Somalia’s National Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (NIEBC) on Wednesday announced the schedule for Galmudug’s parliamentary and regional leadership elections, with the process set to run from Oct. 16 to Oct. 22, 2026.
Dhusamareb (HOL) — Somali electoral commission formally announced the winners of Galmudug State’s parliamentary election Tuesday after the Supreme Court approved results from a Sept. 30 rerun elections.
Dhusamareb (HOL) — Somali electoral commission formally announced the winners of Galmudug State’s parliamentary election Tuesday after the Supreme Court approved results from a Sept. 30 rerun elections.
[Shabelle] Mogadishu -- Somalia has added 10 individuals to its national financial sanctions list over alleged involvement in financing and supporting Al-Shabaab, the country's National Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Committee said Tuesday.
Mogadishu (HOL) — Somali federal government imposed financial sanctions Tuesday on former South West State President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen and nine others over suspected links to al-Shabab, ordering banks and other financial institutions to freeze their assets and halt transactions involving them.
[Shabelle] Mogadishu -- Somalia's ambassador to Algeria, Yusuf Ahmed Hassan, has met Algeria's minister of foreign trade and export promotion, Kamel Rezig, to discuss ways to strengthen trade relations and economic cooperation between the two countries.
The Undersecretary of the Tripoli based Ministry of Industry and Minerals, Mustafa Al-Samou, led a Libyan delegation on an official visit to the Somal...
The risk of famine is looming over Somalia's most vulnerable, in a climate of disappearing aid and limited support. Sky's Yousra Elbagir reports from the hospitals where children are treated for malnutrition, and doctors have to choose who needs the most help.
Labour has won the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, seeing off a challenge from Green Party leader Zack Polanski.