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Political rift deepening in Somalia after suspending PM and Navy commander

January 2, 2022 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Somalia

Reports: Somalia Arrests UAE Spy Network

May 10, 2019 MEO Staff

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 … ]

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Turkish Defense Minister’s visits to Libya, Sudan, and Somalia

November 10, 2018 MEO Staff

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 … ]

East Africa

Somalia Seizes Nearly $10M From UAE Plane in Mogadishu!!

April 9, 2018 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

East Africa

How UAE is illegally fishing in Somali waters

January 12, 2018 MEO Staff

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 … ]

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TURKEY AND EMIRATES: Who is playing a Constructive Role in Somalia?

December 2, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

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 … ]

East Africa

81 Al-Shabaab fighters killed in Jilib, Somalia

November 14, 2017 MEO Staff

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 … ]

East Africa

Somalia: Death toll Mogadishu’s blast rises to 276

October 15, 2017 MEO Staff

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 … ]

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Somalia: President Farmajo in Egypt for state visit amid Gulf crisis

August 21, 2017 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Somalia

Former Al-Shabaab vice head surrenders to Somali government

August 15, 2017 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Somalia

Turkey to open largest military base in Somalia

August 6, 2017 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Somalia

4 soldiers killed in roadside bomb in Somalia

July 25, 2017 MEO Staff

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 … ]

Somalia

Somali al-Shabab militants behead nine Kenyans in gruesome cross-border raid

July 9, 2017 MEO Staff

Militants from Somali al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab group beheaded men in a Kenyan village on Saturday, in a cross-border raid. Nine Kenyan civilians have been brutally murdered by Somali militants following a cross border raid by [ More … ]

Somalia

Car bomb targeting police station in Mogadishu kills four

June 22, 2017 MEO Staff

A car bomb targeting a police station in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu went off, killing at least four people on Thursday, police said. “A suicide car bomb exploded at the gate of Waberi district police station. [ More … ]

Somalia

Somalia: Deadly al-Shabaab minibus attack rocks Mogadishu

June 21, 2017 MEO Staff

An al-Shabaab car bombing left at least ten dead in the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, a security source said, in the latest attack on civilians in the Muslims’ holy month of Ramadan. At least 10 [ More … ]

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