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04.03.2024 Article

Germany and Somalia: Bilateral relations

Relations between Germany and Somalia have been picking up as a result of the gradual improvement in the political situation since 2012. Germany is held in high esteem and regarded as a reliable…

Bilateral relations
25.05.2023 Article

Fighting hunger in the Horn of Africa

The people in the Horn of Africa are suffering a once-in-a-century drought. It has hardly rained for five years now. This has a drastic impact on food security. Germany is massively expanding its assistance for the region.

Women with children queue for water in a refugee camp in Dollow on the Somali-Ethiopian border.
19.05.2023 Article

Ukraine, Horn of Africa, Iran & QMV – Foreign Minister Baerbock at the EU Foreign Affairs Council in May

The EU Foreign Ministers are meeting in Brussels on Monday (22 May). Topics of discussion will include additional support for Ukraine, the eighth package of sanctions against Iran and the situation in the Horn of Africa and in the Western Balkans. Find out more about which issues are on the agenda.

Justus-Lipsius-Building in Brussels
27.10.2020 Article

Ilwad Elman – inspiring Africa and the world

At only 30 years old, the Somali-Canadian peace and human rights activist Ilwad Elman is being honoured today with the German Africa Award.

Ilwad Elman briefs the UN Security Council on the human rights situation in Somalia (file photo, 2015)
27.05.2020 Article

Helping internally displaced persons in Somalia

In Somalia, the Federal Foreign Office supports the internally displaced and host communities and is helping to improve the provision of healthcare.

The Federal Foreign Office is partnering with action medeor in Somalia.
20.05.2020 Article

Supporting Ethiopia and Somalia in the fight against COVID-19

Millions of people in the Horn of Africa depend on humanitarian aid. COVID-19 is making the situation worse. In Ethiopia and Somalia, cooperation with the German Red Cross has made it possible to respond quickly and flexibly to the pandemic by implementing sanitation and health measures.

Ethiopia: A further aim of the projects is to improve local healthcare.

Press releases

  1. 04.04.2021 Press release

    Human Rights Commissioner Bärbel Kofler on International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action

  2. 28.02.2020 Press release

    Germany increases aid for humanitarian measures to fight the locust upsurge in East Africa

  3. 14.12.2017 Press release

    A Federal Foreign Office spokesperson on the suicide attack in Mogadishu

  4. 02.09.2015 Press release

    Attack targeting AMISOM in Somalia

  5. 21.05.2015 Press release

    Foreign Minister Steinmeier on Germany’s continued participation in the EU mission Atalanta

  6. 12.09.2012 Press release

    Foreign Minister Westerwelle congratulates Somalia’s new President

  7. 23.02.2012 Press release

    Germany to provide 6 million euro to help the needy in Somalia and the Horn of Africa

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