President Deni Spends a Fortnight Governing Eastern Mudug

A Somali National Army gunner on a technical, the kind of unit fighting al-Shabaab at Basra thirty kilometres from Mogadishu

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The Somali Armed Forces announced on 30 August that they were running a major operation against al-Shabaab ...

Puntland President Said Abdullahi Deni meets the United States Africa Command delegation at Bosaso, where Washington is discussing an accelerated base plan

Puntland Brings Washington to Bosaso While Ankara Flies Unannounced

by Jama

September 1, 2026

BOSASO, SOMALIA – Puntland President Said Abdullahi Deni met the commander of Washington's special operations forces in East Africa at ...

The Nugaal coast where the MV Lutuf was held, as Puntland accuses officials in Villa Somalia of brokering the ransom that freed the ship

Puntland Says Villa Somalia Phoned the Pirates It Claims to Have Beaten

by Dalmar

August 31, 2026

GAROWE, SOMALIA – Puntland's Ministry of Security says it monitored telephone calls between senior federal officials and the men holding ...

A UPDF soldier at a position in Somalia, the force Uganda says will be withdrawn completely by August 2027

Uganda Sets the Date Its Soldiers Leave Somalia

by Jama

August 30, 2026

KAMPALA, UGANDA – Uganda has put a date on the end of the longest foreign deployment in Somalia's war. General ...

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

The Eyl Hijackers Take Two and a Half Million Dollars for the MV Lutuf

by Dalmar

August 29, 2026

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

by Jama

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 ...