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MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – President Donald Trump has nominated Devin Kennington, of California, to serve as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Federal Republic of Somalia, the White House announced…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – A political and military standoff in Somalia’s Southwest state risks escalating beyond a power struggle into a protracted inter-clan conflict that could destabilize the wider Bay region, the Armed Conflict…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s business community is seeking alternative shipping routes due to disruptions and security concerns around the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Strait of Hormuz after Iran-backed Houthis captured a key…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Mogadishu “cannot be defended” if African Union troops withdraw from the country by December, Somalia’s former Minister of Planning Abdirahman Aynte said, adding that US diplomats have told Somali officials…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Brigadier General Tariq Saleh, a member of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council and commander of the National Resistance on the country’s western coast, has reportedly fled Yemen by sea for Somaliland after…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has chosen incumbent Hirshabelle leader Ali Gudlawe to become the next president of Hirshabelle State, making Gudlawe the only candidate competing on behalf of the…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s parliament speaker, Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur Jama, has described the burning of the Turkish flag in several regions across the country as an “appalling” development that is new to Somalia, saying a…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somaliland is prepared to contribute up to 2,000 soldiers to an international stabilization force planned for Gaza, but it is waiting for the United States or Israel to make a formal request, President…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s federal government is preparing to deploy fresh troops to Baidoa, the seat of power of Southwest State, to join an operation aimed at pushing back opposition forces stationed on the outskirts of the…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Mass protests against Turkey and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have swept through major towns in southern Somalia’s Jubaland state this week, following accusations by regional authorities that Ankara carried…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – A prominent Somali professor has issued a sharp public rebuke of Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, warning that his administration’s policies have failed the country and accusing him of presiding over…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – A prominent pro-government religious scholar told a gathering of senior Somali officials, including the defense minister, on Sunday that people who oppose the administration of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s former intelligence chief Fahad Yasin has accused the Speaker of the House of the People, Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur – widely known by the nicknames “Jama” and “Minister TikTok” – of directing the drone…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Ethiopia’s security agencies have begun interrogating dozens of Somali National Army (SNA) soldiers who crossed into Ethiopian territory after completing training in Somalia’s Galmudug region, according to…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – A drone strike tore through the residence of General Mahad Abdirahman, Somalia’s former custodial corps chief, in the border town of Dolow on Thursday, and he survived it – but the attack has ignited a…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro departed Hargeisa on Thursday for a working visit to the United States, part of an effort to present the self-declared republic as an emerging power of…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Heavy fighting erupted in Baidoa on Thursday after forces loyal to ousted Southwest State President Abdiasis Laftagaren attacked the city from multiple directions, seizing two federal army bases on its…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Armed militias seized centers designated for voter registration in Beledweyne on Tuesday, as Somalia’s electoral commission set September 30 for Hirshabelle municipal and parliamentary elections, intensifying…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s National Security Adviser, Aways Haji Yusuf, on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that an undisclosed number of Somali National Army (SNA) troops who recently completed a Saudi Arabia-funded…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – On a balmy evening, Jibril “One-Armed” Yahya Ali and his new bride set out for a honeymoon drive along the beach outside al-Ghaydah, Yemen . Jibril, a Somali, and his Yemeni wife had met through a mutual…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has agreed to hold elections within seven months and accepted some of the opposition’s demands, following mediation by the country’s international partners aimed at…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somali lawmakers on Monday tabled a motion of no-confidence against Interior Minister Ali Yusuf Hosh, the first such motion filed against a government official since parliament elected a new speaker several…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s federal government forces and Al-Shabaab militants remained locked in intense fighting for a second consecutive week over the town of Basra, roughly an hour’s drive northwest of the capital, with no…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – A Cameroon-flagged cargo vessel carrying weapons, armored military vehicles and other equipment bound for Turkey’s military base in Mogadishu was released by Somali pirates on Saturday after Ankara paid a $2.5…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – The African Union Commission has authorized its peacekeeping mission in Somalia to join federal government forces in combat operations against Darwish militia loyal to an ousted Southwest regional president,…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Uganda is leaving Somalia. All of it, all the way out, on a fixed date – and its army chief said so in the plainest terms Kampala has ever used. General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces and…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – A man identifying himself as one of the Somali pirates holding the hijacked cargo vessel M/V LUTUF off the coast of Somalia told local media he came from the United States and intends to return there once he…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s electoral commission said Wednesday it has accepted a Supreme Court ruling ordering a rerun of the Galmudug municipal and regional parliamentary elections held on July 30, after the court found…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Pakistan and Somalia have struck their broadest defence agreement in more than three decades, sending army, navy and air force commanders into direct talks in Rawalpindi and reopening a military relationship…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – The scaffolding holding up Somalia’s international security operation is coming down, piece by piece, not on a battlefield but inside termination letters and auction notices moving quietly through United…