Somalia Security News
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Somalia’s Federal Budget Runs on Money Mogadishu Does Not Raise
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somalia's finance minister told an audience in Mogadishu on Tuesday that between 450 and 600 million dollars...
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The Somali Future Council Puts Legitimacy on the Kampala Agenda
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The Somali Future Council has stopped arguing with Villa Somalia and begun arguing about it. In an...
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Abshir Bukhaari Is the Second Senior Mogadishu Official Kenya Has Sent Home
NAIROBI, KENYA – Kenya turned back a serving Somali state minister at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Sunday and put...
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Puntland Sovereignty Does Not Distinguish Between ISIS and other Rebels
GAROWE, SOMALIA – On 21 July Puntland moved troops off the Cal Miskaad front and sent them down to the...
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Hassan Sheikh Reaches the Kampala Summit With Nothing to Show
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The federal government needed a signature before the Kampala summit, and it did not get one. Mediation...
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Al-Shabaab Waits Out a Retreat Somalia Cannot Afford
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Al-Shabaab has spent nearly two decades learning one lesson about its enemies: they leave. Governments turn over,...
Read moreDetailsSomalia’s Federal Government Fights Its Own Regions as Foreign Backers Walk Away
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The letter that may end Somalia's foreign-backed war came on July 1. It read less like a...
Read moreDetailsA Lower Juba Raid Cannot Mask Somalia’s Deepening Al-Shabaab Problem
KISMAYO, SOMALIA – A Lower Juba raid killed sixteen al-Shabaab fighters this week, and two of them were senior commanders....
Read moreDetailsBosaso Port’s Shutdown Tests the Limits of Puntland’s Independence
BOSASO, SOMALIA – The Bosaso port has sat idle for nine straight days. There is still no end in sight....
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Puntland Blocks General Takar as Mogadishu’s Military Play Stalls
GAROWE, SOMALIA – General Takar is stuck in Lasanod, and with him the most ambitious federal attempt yet to plant...
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Deni Draws a Line Against the Clan Militias Forming Inside Puntland
GAROWE, SOMALIA – President Said Abdullahi Deni has warned the clan militias taking shape inside Puntland, and he named the...
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