The Darawish Thank Jubaland and Say They Are Coming Back for Baidoa

Members of the House of the People vote in the chamber at Villa Hargeisa, where the Defence Committee has summoned the defence minister and the army commander

The Defence Committee Summons Fiqi and the Army Chief Over Cuts to Six Thousand Soldiers and Families

September 27, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The Defence Committee of Somalia's House of the People on Saturday 26 September summoned Defence Minister Ahmed ...

Children of fallen Somali National Army soldiers in uniform and Agoonta Ciidanka sashes with an army officer, the families the Orphans Care Agency was founded to support

Army Orphans Lose Half Their Allowance Months After the Orphans Care Agency Was Launched

by Jama

September 27, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Families raising the children of Somali National Army soldiers killed fighting al-Shabaab say the monthly allowance for ...

Darawish fighters loyal to Laftagareen with the South West State flag on the Baidoa outskirts, where forces stayed in position after the South West Peace Council's ceasefire push was rejected

The South West Peace Council Presses for a Ceasefire and Laftagareen’s Camp Says No

by Dalmar

September 25, 2026

BAIDOA, SOMALIA – Former President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen's faction said on Wednesday 23 September that no ceasefire had been ...

The Sibu 1, the Eritrean-flagged tanker Puntland's maritime police freed from pirates off the Mudug coast after five weeks in captivity

Puntland Frees the Sibu 1 and Takes Fifteen Pirates Alive

by Jama

September 25, 2026

GAROWE, SOMALIA – Puntland's maritime police freed the Eritrean-flagged tanker Sibu 1 off the Mudug coast on Friday 25 September ...

President Said Abdullahi Deni, whose September letter to the UN Security Council Mohamed Abdirizak and Villa Somalia’s Interior Minister have both called into question

Mohamed Abdirizak Tells Deni Puntland Is Not His to Cut Loose

by Dalmar

September 25, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Mohamed Abdirizak, foreign minister under former President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo and head of Farmaajo's Nabad iyo Nolol ...

President Said Abdullahi Deni and Vice President Ilyas Osman Lugatoor at the Puntland Council of Ministers in Garowe, whose government wrote to the UN Security Council on 13 September

Puntland Writes to a Security Council Where Mogadishu Holds a Seat

by Jama

September 24, 2026

GAROWE, SOMALIA – Puntland has asked the United Nations Security Council to review and tighten the arms restrictions on Somalia, ...

Hawadle elders and politicians gathered in Beledweyne beneath a banner for Ugaas Yusuf Ugaas Hassan as the clan sets out its position on the Hirshabelle election

The Hawadle Say No Hirshabelle Vote Will Be Held in Hiiraan Without an Agreement

by Dalmar

September 23, 2026

BELEDWEYNE, SOMALIA – The Hawadle declared in Beledweyne on Monday 21 September that no Hirshabelle election held without a prior ...

A UPDF soldier at a position in Somalia, where Uganda keeps about 6,500 troops as Kampala suspends its military ties with Turkiye

UPDF Suspends Turkiye Ties as Sources Say Mogadishu Wants Ugandan Troops Out

by Jama

September 23, 2026

KAMPALA, UGANDA – The UPDF suspended all defence and military cooperation with Turkiye with immediate effect on Saturday 19 September, ...

Somali forces of the kind deployed across Middle Shabelle, where the Guulane operation killed an al-Shabaab clan commander.

NISA Names the Men It Killed at Guulane and What They Handled

by Dalmar

September 21, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The national intelligence agency said on Sunday 20 September that it had killed an al-Shabaab commander and ...