Garmaal Buries Fishermen the First Reports Called Pirates

NIEBC staff in marked vests handling polling materials, the commission that will run the annulled Galmudug election again

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somalia's electoral commission said on Wednesday that it accepts the Supreme Court judgment voiding the Galmudug elections ...

The fishing settlements of Puntland's Nugaal coast, where strikes around the hijacked MV Lutuf have killed local men

Mogadishu Says It Knew About the MV Lutuf Strikes and Names Nobody

by Jama

August 26, 2026

GAROWE, SOMALIA – Somalia's state minister for defence has told reporters in Mogadishu that the federal government knew in advance ...

Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed speaking in Mogadishu, where he accused the army and the Presidential Guard of taking part in the evictions

Sheikh Sharif Says the Army That Fled Al-Shabaab Is Fearless in Yaqshiid

by Jama

August 25, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Former President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has accused the national army and the Presidential Guard of taking ...

AUSSOM troops riding in an African Union transport in Somalia, the force whose fuel, rations and medical support run through the UNSOS system now being wound down

AUSSOM Loses Its Support Structure Before Anyone Funds the Exit

by Jama

August 25, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Ten civilian staff of the joint African Union and United Nations information team in Mogadishu have been ...

Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, who condemned the Tookiyo demolitions and called on Mogadishu to stand together against them

Sheikh Sharif Answers the Tookiyo Demolitions With a Call for Unity

by Dalmar

August 24, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed condemned the demolition of the Tookiyo neighbourhood in a written statement on Sunday, ...

Liban Shuluq, whose path to the Galmudug presidency ran through the local election the Supreme Court has now annulled

Galmudug Loses the Election Villa Somalia Already Won

by Jama

August 24, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somalia's Federal Supreme Court annulled the Galmudug election results on Monday, finding that the 30 July vote ...

Supporters carry the Koonfur Bari flag at a mass gathering in Lower Shabelle, the administration now flying its flag over Marka

Marka Lowers the Southwest Flag and Raises Its Own

by Dalmar

August 23, 2026

MARKA, SOMALIA – Armed men supporting the administration that calls itself Koonfur Bari entered Marka on Sunday and raised their ...

Aden Madobe seated before South West State military commanders at a security meeting in Baidoa

Aden Madobe Puts His Predecessor’s Forces in the Al-Shabaab Column

by Jama

August 23, 2026

BAIDOA, SOMALIA – Aden Madobe returned to Baidoa on Saturday after a working trip to Mogadishu and told the reception ...

The Puntland coast at Garmaal in the Nugaal region, where strikes on August 18 and 20 killed fishermen and Puntland has demanded an account from the warships offshore.

Puntland Demands an Account From the Warships Off Its Coast

by Dalmar

August 22, 2026

GAROWE, SOMALIA– Puntland has become the first Somali authority to formally demand that foreign governments account for military strikes carried ...