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
LAS ANOD, SOMALIA – Five lawmakers quit the North East State parliament on Sunday, and their joint statement was notable less for what it alleged
BOSASO, SOMALIA – The federal-backed force did not last the morning in the hills above Bosaso. Puntland’s Dervish ambushed a convoy of the former Puntland
BOSASO, SOMALIA – One soldier of the Puntland Security Force was killed on Sunday 19 July in a gunfight with Puntland’s own Dervish forces at
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – On December 31, 2026, the United Nations Support Office in Somalia will stop bankrolling the African Union force that fights al-Shabaab. Washington
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – On Tuesday, Puntland and Jubaland refused to join election talks that Turkish intelligence officials convened in Mogadishu. Both states rejected the Turkish
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The al-Shabaab offensive sweeping across central Somalia is not winning on firepower alone. It is winning on distraction. While government forces clashed
