Cross-Border Raids Signal Widening Reach Al-Shabaab attacks have intensified across Somalia and its borders in recent weeks, underscoring how the country’s political paralysis is feeding
Dhusamareb, SOMALIA – The people of Galmudug have made their position unmistakable. In scenes circulating widely on social media, residents took to the streets of
Mogadishu, SOMALIA – Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi landed in Jerusalem on June 14 in the first-ever state visit by a Somaliland leader to Israel.
Mogadishu, SOMALIA – The Mogadishu crackdown that erupted in early June has laid bare a devastating truth about President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s administration. While al-Shabaab
Jerusalem, ISRAEL – Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi opened his country’s first embassy anywhere in the world on Monday. Notably, he did not open it
Dhusmareb, SOMALIA – The federal government is airlifting weapons and soldiers into regional capitals to ensure that Somalia state elections produce the outcomes Villa Somalia
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The Galmudug election has done what al-Shabaab could not. It has turned the head of Somalia’s spy agency against the president he
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The African Union mission tasked with holding back al-Shabaab is running out of money, and the timing could hardly be worse. AUSSOM
GAROWE, SOMALIA – Puntland has torn up its recognition of the federal government, declaring that President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and his institutions no longer hold
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Al-Shabaab is learning to fly. United Nations and American intelligence reporting indicates the group has acquired drone training from Yemen’s Houthi movement,
