AUSSOM Loses Its Support Structure Before Anyone Funds the Exit

The Nugaal coast north of Eyl, where the MV Lutuf was held at anchor before a two and a half million dollar payment freed the ship and its crew

EYL, SOMALIA – The MV Lutuf and its ten crew have been released after a payment of two and a ...

Children at a Merhem food distribution in Somalia eating at long rows of plates lined with small Turkish flags

Merhem Hands Somali Children a Turkish Flag With Every Plate

August 29, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Footage published on the donor channels of Merhem, a Turkish charity that sells bread and rice packages ...

African Union troops on an AU armoured truck in Somalia, the AUSSOM force now authorised to fight what Mogadishu calls al-Shabaab's affiliated militias in South West State

The African Union Authorises the War It Wants No Part Of

by Dalmar

August 29, 2026

BAIDOA, SOMALIA – The African Union has authorised its Somalia mission to join federal military operations against al-Shabaab and against ...

The Tookiyo neighbourhood of Yaqshiid after the demolition that cleared it, at the centre of the contested land clearances in Mogadishu

Mogadishu Sells the Ground Its Citizens Are Standing On

by Jama

August 28, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Residents of Tookiyo say they were asked for eighteen thousand dollars each to keep the ground their ...

Puntland deputy security minister Abdirahman Yusuf Dujaana, whose public accusation over the Nugaal coast strikes drew Ankara's joint-command reply

Puntland Names Ankara and Gets a Joint Command in Reply

by Dalmar

August 28, 2026

GAROWE, SOMALIA – Turkiye's defence ministry gave its first formal answer on Thursday to the strikes that have killed at ...

President Said Abdullahi Deni walking through deep sand with officials, elders and Puntland security during his tour of eastern Mudug

President Deni Spends a Fortnight Governing Eastern Mudug

by Jama

August 27, 2026

GAROWE, SOMALIA – President Said Abdullahi Deni has spent the better part of a fortnight on the road in eastern ...

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

The NIEBC Accepts the Ruling That Voided Its Vote and Sets No Date

by Dalmar

August 27, 2026

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 ...