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MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Al-Shabaab said on Saturday it had signed an agreement with the Hawadle clan to end a four-year conflict in central Somalia’s Hiran region. The group’s Al Furqan media arm posted videos on Facebook of a meeting…
ADDIS ABABA (Somaliguardian) – Ethiopian government forces and allied militias have regained control of the capital of Tigray, three sources told Reuters on Sunday, dealing a major setback to the opposition alliance that rules the…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia will not accept Israeli presence in the country “under any circumstances” and will resist any attempts to be pulled into the Middle East’s crises, its President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud tells Al Jazeera.…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – At least 216 civilians in Somalia were recorded as killed or injured by U.S. air operations between 2007 and May 2025, according to an investigation supported by Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism…
ADDIS ABABA (Somaliguardian) – A militia group allied to Ethiopia’s federal government said they had recaptured the main airport in the capital of the northern Tigray region, an opposition stronghold. “We have taken full control of…
ADDIS ABABA (Somaliguardian) – Explosions were heard overnight in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, three diplomatic sources said on Thursday, adding to anxiety about the possible spread of renewed conflict in the country’s north . A source…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Ethiopia plans to withdraw more than 3,000 troops from Somalia as fighting escalates in its north, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The pullout could begin in the…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Turkey has poured huge sums into making Somalia one of its main foreign outposts but is being sucked into the country’s violent political battles, risking the goodwill it has built. Turkish F-16s fired missiles…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s diplomatic circuit through Ethiopia and Djibouti, followed by a planned visit to Egypt, is unfolding against a volatile backdrop in which Somalia’s domestic political…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Pirates killed five crew members aboard the hijacked oil tanker MT Honour 25 before Puntland security forces rescued the vessel off Somalia’s coast, the semi-autonomous state’s information ministry said on…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Former South West State President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen has accused Somalia’s federal government and Türkiye of carrying out airstrikes on Baidoa during fierce fighting between his forces and…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Puntland Maritime Police Force (PMPF) troops have freed the Palau-flagged tanker MT Honour from Somali pirates in the Bandarbayla district, days after releasing the SIBU 1 tanker, in a fast-moving push against…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre has denied his government pays Al-Shabaab to stop attacks on Mogadishu, saying it has never held talks with the group. Barre said in an interview with Dawan TV that the…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s parliament speaker, Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur Jama, plans to cut the salaries of about 50 lawmakers for not regularly attending assembly meetings, Somali Stream reported on Sunday. Jama has ordered the…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Nineteen pirates escaped from a convoy of vehicles transporting them to Puntland’s regional capital on Saturday, a day after being captured in a raid to free the SIBU tanker off Somalia’s northeastern coast,…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Puntland’s maritime police force freed the oil tanker MT Sibu 1 on Friday, ending a five-week hijacking off Somalia’s northern coast after a 48-hour operation that left all 20 crew members unharmed, regional…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro has suggested renaming Berbera International Airport after U.S. President Donald Trump, as his government intensifies a decades-long campaign for…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Thursday his government was laying the foundations of universal suffrage, addressing the United Nations General Assembly as opposition leaders at home said he…
ADDIS ABABA (Somaliguardian) – The United States said it has tools to sanction more leaders in Ethiopia, while the United Nations and African Union urged restraint, after Tigrayan forces seized the airport in Tigray’s capital Mekelle on…
ADDIS ABABA (Somaliguardian) – Tigrayan forces seized control of Alula Aba Nega Airport in Mekelle overnight, taking the facility from federal police in a major escalation just days after the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)…
TEL AVIV (Somaliguardian) – An Eritrean opposition movement operating out of a warehouse in southern Tel Aviv says it has built the most organized diaspora network yet assembled against President Isaias Afwerki, and is actively courting…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – A coordinated wave of Facebook account suspensions, removals and false death reports struck Somali journalists and independent media outlets over the weekend of Sept. 12–13, according to the Somali Journalists…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Uganda’s decision to suspend all defence cooperation with Turkey is linked to the possible end of the African Union mission in Somalia, which could cost Kampala tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue,…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Puntland security forces have intercepted two military trucks carrying more than 100 recruits who were reportedly travelling to a federal government-run military training camp, in a fresh security flashpoint…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Former Somali Custodial Corps chief General Mahad Abdirahman said an F-16 fighter jet bombed his house in the border town of Dolow, an attack he said he survived and was meant to kill him. Abdirahman, known as…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi rejected any interference that threatens Somalia’s sovereignty, unity or territorial integrity during talks with CIA Director John Ratcliffe, reaffirming Cairo’s support…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – The United States has given the UN more time to wind down its Somalia support, but not a permanent reprieve. International Crisis Group warns that the security architecture protecting Somalia for nearly two…
WASHINGTON (Somaliguardian) — Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro arrived in Washington with a familiar message: his administration wants the United States to recognise Somaliland and sees the territory’s strategic…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – In July, the U.S. Mission to the African Union announced that it would be cutting support for the United Nations Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS). This unit provides logistical support, food rations, fuel, and…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Turkey deported 50 Somali nationals to Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport on Tuesday as anger over Ankara’s expanding military and economic footprint in Somalia spread through three regional states and…