Somalia Security News
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Laftagareen’s Darawish Strike the 60th Division Inside Baidoa
BAIDOA, SOMALIA – Forces loyal to former President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen attacked positions of the Somali National Army's 60th...
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Mogadishu Takes Its Campaign Against Puntland Into Sanaag
LAS ANOD, SOMALIA – The federal government paid more than 2,500 soldiers of the North East State their first federal...
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The Defence Committee Summons Fiqi and the Army Chief Over Cuts to Six Thousand Soldiers and Families
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The Defence Committee of Somalia's House of the People on Saturday 26 September summoned Defence Minister Ahmed...
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Army Orphans Lose Half Their Allowance Months After the Orphans Care Agency Was Launched
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Families raising the children of Somali National Army soldiers killed fighting al-Shabaab say the monthly allowance for...
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The South West Peace Council Presses for a Ceasefire and Laftagareen’s Camp Says No
BAIDOA, SOMALIA – Former President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen's faction said on Wednesday 23 September that no ceasefire had been...
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Puntland Frees the Sibu 1 and Takes Fifteen Pirates Alive
GAROWE, SOMALIA – Puntland's maritime police freed the Eritrean-flagged tanker Sibu 1 off the Mudug coast on Friday 25 September...
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Mohamed Abdirizak Tells Deni Puntland Is Not His to Cut Loose
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Mohamed Abdirizak, foreign minister under former President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo and head of Farmaajo's Nabad iyo Nolol...
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Puntland Writes to a Security Council Where Mogadishu Holds a Seat
GAROWE, SOMALIA – Puntland has asked the United Nations Security Council to review and tighten the arms restrictions on Somalia,...
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The Hawadle Say No Hirshabelle Vote Will Be Held in Hiiraan Without an Agreement
BELEDWEYNE, SOMALIA – The Hawadle declared in Beledweyne on Monday 21 September that no Hirshabelle election held without a prior...
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UPDF Suspends Turkiye Ties as Sources Say Mogadishu Wants Ugandan Troops Out
KAMPALA, UGANDA – The UPDF suspended all defence and military cooperation with Turkiye with immediate effect on Saturday 19 September,...
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Ethiopia Plans an ENDF Pullout From Somalia and Mogadishu Says It Was Not Told
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Ethiopia is preparing to pull more than 3,000 soldiers of the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) out...
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