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MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s federal security forces killed at least five people and wounded more than ten others in Mogadishu on Sunday, local media reported, during a violent operation to forcibly clear the Tookiyo settlement…
MOADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s State Minister of Defense, Omar Ali Abdi, on Saturday broke the federal government’s silence over alleged Turkish drone strike that killed at least four people off the coast of Garmaal, in Puntland’s…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – A single sentence of gratitude, posted by Somalia’s newly elected parliament speaker to an official of a government Somalia does not recognize, has forced Mogadishu into a four-day diplomatic scramble – and…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Puntland authorities have strongly condemned an airstrike near Garmaal on Somalia’s northeastern coast that killed four people and wounded two others, saying the victims were civilian fishermen and warning that…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s former Foreign Affairs Minister, Abdisaed Muse Ali, accused Turkey on Thursday of carrying out a “massacre” of Somali nationals on Puntland’s coast, escalating a row over a drone strike that killed…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s former President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on Tuesday placed sole responsibility for the deadly fighting in Baidoa on the federal government of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, arguing that the violence was…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – A drone strike killed four suspected Somali pirates near Garmaal on Puntland’s Nugaal coast on Tuesday, a day after gunmen hijacked the Cameroon-flagged cargo vessel MV Lutuf off Somalia’s northeastern coast,…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud arrived Monday in the southern, Galmudug-administered half of Galkayo, a city still bearing the tension of recent fighting, as Puntland President Saeed Abdullahi Deni…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud declared on Sunday that Somalia no longer needs foreign peacekeepers to guarantee its own security, telling African Union troops it was time to go home even as the continental…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Fierce clashes erupted Monday in Baidoa, the interim capital of Somalia’s Southwest state, between federal government troops and forces loyal to ousted regional leader Abdiaziz Laftagaren, whose spokesman…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s national army marked its largest single graduation of security forces since the collapse of the central government in 1991, as roughly 3,000 newly trained soldiers passed out on Sunday in the central…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – A video circulating on social media this week shows Somalis in the country’s Southwest state setting fire to the Turkish flag while holding aloft the state’s own banner, a striking act of defiance that captures…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Gen. Jimale Takar, commander of the Somali National Army’s 54th Division, has rejoined Puntland’s security forces and agreed that Danab units under his command at the Ligle military camp in Garowe will no…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – President Yoweri Museveni has said Uganda’s nearly two-decade military deployment in Somalia was driven primarily by solidarity with Ethiopia – whose forces invaded Somalia in 2006 to remove the Islamic Courts…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Turkey will move to arrest and exile Somalia’s opposition leaders, including former President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, should they persist in their defiance of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s disputed term…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – More than a dozen Somali army personnel were killed on Monday when a military truck carrying troops was struck by an improvised explosive device (IED) near the town of Mubarak in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre on Tuesday launched a blistering attack on the country’s international partners, accusing them of facing a “cultural problem” and of continuing to treat Somalia as…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s parliament handed its most powerful gavel to a man widely regarded as Ankara’s foremost asset in Mogadishu on Monday, electing Minister of Ports and Maritime Transport Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur as…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Ethiopian troops serving under the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) have withdrawn from Burhakaba, a strategic Bay region town ringed on every side by Al-Shabaab, handing…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – The United Nations Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS) has opened a public tender for licensed auctioneers to liquidate a sprawling inventory of mission property, from vehicles and heavy construction machinery to…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – A summit convened specifically to keep Somalia’s African Union peacekeeping mission functioning has instead confirmed how unresolved its future remains, according to Amani Africa ‘s analysis of the gathering,…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Puntland security forces seized a third military base from Somalia’s federal government on Saturday, part of a sweeping campaign to strip Mogadishu-aligned troops from the region and place the use of force…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro urged Western diplomats on Friday to engage his administration as a sovereign, capable partner rather than an extension of Somalia, pressing the case for…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Northeastern Somalia’s Puntland security forces seized a second military camp belonging to federal government-aligned troops within 24 hours on Thursday, capturing a command centre in the commercial port city…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Puntland security forces on Wednesday seized a military base in the northern part of Galkayo that had been held by forces aligned with Somalia’s federal government, marking the latest and most significant…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud met international partners on Tuesday as diplomatic efforts gathered pace to ease growing political tensions over Somalia’s electoral process and encourage dialogue between the…