The Houthis Are Arming Al-Shabaab Across the Gulf of Aden

Protesters in Kismayo holding a poster of President Erdogan with bloodied hands during the anti-Turkiye demonstration

KISMAYO, SOMALIA – Thousands of people filled the streets of Kismayo on Sunday to burn Turkish flags and hold up ...

Residents and local officials protesting in Doolow in Gedo region after the strike on General Mahad Abdirahman, one demonstrator holding a placard bearing the Turkish flag

Mogadishu Says the Gedo Blast Came From Inside the House

September 6, 2026

DOOLOW, SOMALIA – The federal government's answer to the explosion that wrecked General Mahad Abdirahman Aden's compound in the Gedo ...

President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro leaving the presidential palace in Hargeisa past the guard of honour at the start of his working visit to Washington

Hargeisa Makes Washington an Offer and Mogadishu Copies It

by Jama

September 5, 2026

HARGEISA, SOMALIA – President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro left Hargeisa on Thursday 3 September for a working visit to the ...

The wrecked compound in Doolow, its roof torn open and a crater in the yard, after the air strike of 4 September 2026

Doolow Wakes to an Air Strike No Government Will Claim

by Dalmar

September 4, 2026

DOOLOW, SOMALIA – An aircraft struck the compound of General Mahad Abdirahman Aden, the former commander of the Somali Custodial ...

Somali federal soldiers and a police ambulance on a Baidoa street at first light in the Rahanweyn capital, fought over again on 3 September 2026

Every Rahanweyn President Since 2018 Has Been Chosen in Mogadishu

by Jama

September 3, 2026

BAIDOA, SOMALIA – Forces loyal to former Southwest State president Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen attacked federal troops and the units ...

Newly graduated Somali National Army soldiers carry the Somali flag on the parade ground at Xananbuure in Galgadud, the class from which hundreds later crossed into Ethiopia's Somali Region

Xananbuure Graduates Cross Into Ethiopia and Mogadishu Calls It Leave

by Dalmar

September 3, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somalia's national security adviser, Aways Haji Yusuf, confirmed on Tuesday 1 September that soldiers from the Saudi-funded ...

President Said Abdullahi Deni chairs the Bari region security meeting in Bosaso on 1 September 2026, with Puntland ministers, MPs, commanders and the regional and district administrations around the table

Deni Puts Every Technical in Bari Under His Own Signature

by Jama

September 2, 2026

Puntland's Bari security meeting bans unlicensed weapons in the towns, puts every armed vehicle under the president's signature and orders ...

Interior Minister Ali Yusuf Hosh, facing a no-confidence motion submitted by members of the House of the People

Sixty MPs Move Against Ali Yusuf Hosh and the Federal System He Could Not Hold

by Dalmar

September 2, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Members of the House of the People submitted a no-confidence motion on Tuesday 1 September against Ali ...

Somalia's state minister for foreign affairs, who says the Ankara Declaration now governs relations with Ethiopia

Mogadishu Says the Ankara Declaration Now Governs Ethiopia

by Jama

September 2, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somalia's state minister for foreign affairs, Ali Mohamed Omar, said in an interview published on 2 September ...