GALKAYO, SOMALIA – Clan militiamen in south Galkayo seized part of a federal weapons shipment on Tuesday. The cargo was coming off the trucks in
KAMPALA, UGANDA – The frankest public account of southern Somalia to emerge from the troop contributors summit came from a regional official who is now
BOSASO, SOMALIA – President Said Abdullahi Deni met the officer who runs American special operations across Africa in Bosaso on Sunday. The two sides signed
KAMPALA, UGANDA – The draft Kampala communique was read aloud to the heads of state on Friday, and Hassan Sheikh Mohamud stopped it. He asked
GAROWE, SOMALIA – President Said Abdullahi Deni has warned the clan militias taking shape inside Puntland, and he named the people he believes are paying
KAMPALA, UGANDA – Uganda’s chief of defence forces opened the Kampala summit on Wednesday by telling the region something its governments have avoided saying in
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The Somali Future Council has stopped arguing with Villa Somalia and begun arguing about it. In an open letter dated 27 July
NAIROBI, KENYA – Kenya turned back a serving Somali state minister at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Sunday and put him on a return flight
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The federal government needed a signature before the Kampala summit, and it did not get one. Mediation talks with the opposition closed
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somalia’s federal government intends to announce that it is taking national security duties back from AUSSOM, and the calendar explains the announcement
