Somalia Applauds a Defence Pact It Was Not Invited to Join

Electoral commission staff in marked vests unload polling materials from an aircraft ahead of the Hirshabelle vote on 20 August

JOWHAR, SOMALIA – Hirshabelle votes on 20 August in an election whose most consequential outcome was settled a fortnight earlier ...

Ethiopian and Somali officers sign the transfer documents at the Buurhakaba base handover in Bay region

Buurhakaba Changes Hands Before the Money Runs Out

by Dalmar

August 10, 2026

BUURHAKABA, SOMALIA – Ethiopian troops serving with the African Union mission handed their base at Buurhakaba to the Somali National ...

President Erdogan receives Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur at his office in Ankara in June 2025

Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur Carries the Ankara File Into the Speaker’s Chair

by Jama

August 10, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The House of the People convened at Villa Hargeysa on Monday to fill the speakership vacated in ...

Puntland forces march at the state's 28th anniversary parade in Garowe, the face of a stronger New Puntland

Mogadishu Wanted a New Puntland and Got One

by Jama

August 10, 2026

GAROWE, SOMALIA – For a year the politicians Mogadishu keeps inside Puntland have campaigned for something they call New Puntland, ...

AUSSOM peacekeepers in Somalia, whose transport, fuel and rations run through the UNSOS logistics network now being wound down

UNSOS Starts Selling the Somalia Mission for Parts

by Dalmar

August 10, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The United Nations Support Office in Somalia has begun hiring auctioneers to sell the equipment that keeps ...

Fighters of the Calmiskaad Defence Forces drawn up with technicals on open ground in Puntland after leaving Carmo for Xumbays

The Calmiskaad Defence Forces Take Their Guns Into Islamic State Country

by Dalmar

August 9, 2026

XUMBAYS, SOMALIA – Armed militias that call themselves the Calmiskaad Defence Forces drove out of Carmo on Friday night, crossed ...

The leaders of Turkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan hold the signed Mecca joint defence agreement, which Somalia welcomed

Somalia’s Bid for the Mecca Agreement Has No Official Author

by Dalmar

August 9, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The loudest Somali argument for joining the Mecca Agreement is coming from a man who does not ...

President Said Abdullahi Deni addresses Puntland force commanders in Galkayo after the Mudug operations

President Deni Takes His Command Meeting to Galkayo After the Camps Fall

by Jama

August 9, 2026

GALKAYO, SOMALIA – President Said Abdullahi Deni drove into Galkayo on Saturday and spent the day with the officers who ...

Somalia public works minister Ayuub Ismaaciil Yuusuf, who announced the federal road and bridge project for Hargeisa

Hargeisa Gets a Federal Road While Mogadishu Loses Camps

by Jama

August 9, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The federal ministry of public works has begun contracting the design and feasibility studies for a road ...