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MOGADISHU, 15 November 2026 – Somalia plans to connect up to 45 government agencies to the state internet network next year, Communications and Technology Minister Mohamed Adan Moallim Ali said on Sunday.
The minister, speaking during a visit by Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre to the ministry's recently rebuilt and modernised headquarters on Sunday, said the government network would be run from a new network operations centre (NOC).
"The most important of your instructions that we are carrying out is that next year we provide the government internet to up to 45 agencies, managed from the centre we have just shown you," the minister told the prime minister.
He also said the national e-government portal would be ready next year.
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"We have not yet reached where we are going, but it is a good place towards our target. Much has been achieved as we committed to you, and we are working to complete the rest," he said.
The headquarters has new sections for developing telecommunications and postal services, the ministry said.
The e-government portal is part of a World Bank-backed project. The ministry has issued a tender for the design and rollout of a national digital government portal, a government single sign-on system and an API gateway linking government systems, under the Eastern Africa Regional Digital Integration Project (EA-RDIP).