The recent deepening rift between Somalia’s President and Prime Minister has plunged the Horn of Africa country into political crisis, reported Anadolu Agency. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who took office in 2017, suspended Prime Minister, Mohamed [ More … ]
Somali authorities are reported to have arrested a spy network working for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). According to Hiiraan Online at Thursday May 9, 2019 Only Twitter users report the news, quoting a local [ More … ]
By: Yasin Aktay At the beginning of the last week, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar visited Libya, Sudan, and Somalia on a four day trip. He was joined by Chief of General Staff Yaşar Güler, Libya special [ More … ]
Somali security officials said they have seized a large cache of money that arrived Sunday at Mogadishu airport from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Two senior security officials told VOA Somali three suitcases containing $9.6 [ More … ]
Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo on Saturday broke his silence on the controversial Berbera Port deal issuing a warning to foreign companies investing in Somalia without consent from the Federal Government . In his speech [ More … ]
One of the serious medium- and long-term challenges facing Africa and the African Union is the proliferation of military bases established on the continent by foreign powers. These have the potential to threaten national and [ More … ]
Middle East Observer has exclusively obtained a video clip that shows a UAE vessel while fishing in Somali territorial waters. Though the video clip that the Middle East Observer (MEO) is not professionally recorded, it shows a [ More … ]
Turkish-Somali relations date back to the sixteenth century when the Ottomans came to Somalis’ aid fending off Ethiopian and Portuguese expeditionary forces. By the seventeenth century, Somali coastal towns were controlled by local sultanates with [ More … ]
Somalia’s security forces conducted a military operation killing 81 Al-Shabaab fighters, the Somali Minister of Information confirmed. Special Forces attacked the Al-Shabaab camp in Jilib district on Saturday, based in the Middle Jubba region in [ More … ]
The death toll from the most powerful bomb blast witnessed in Somalia’s capital rose to 189 with more than 200 injured, police and hospital sources said on Sunday. The death toll from the most powerful [ More … ]
Somali President, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo arrived in Cairo on Sunday for a two-day state visit to Egypt, after he received an official invitation from Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi. Somali President Farmajo, along with a delegation of [ More … ]
Former deputy al-Shabaab leader and spokesman Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, known as Abu Mansoor, has surrendered himself to Somali government earlier on Sunday, authorities confirmed. Mohamed Abdi, Bakol region governor, told Anadolu Agency over the phone [ More … ]
Turkey is opening a military training camp in Somalia in September, the Anadolu Agency reported. The camp has been under construction for the past two years, Somali Defence Minister Abdirashid Abdullahi Mohamed confirmed in a [ More … ]
Four Somali soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb and two others were injured yesterday, according to reports in Al Jazeera. The improvised explosive device exploded in the town of Baidoa, south west of the [ More … ]
Somali security forces said on Sunday they had killed 18 Islamist insurgents during an operation in the northern region of Puntland, although the militants denied sustaining any casualties. “We killed 18 militants and burnt six [ More … ]
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