Somalia Security News
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Hargeisa Makes Washington an Offer and Mogadishu Copies It
HARGEISA, SOMALIA – President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro left Hargeisa on Thursday 3 September for a working visit to the...
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Doolow Wakes to an Air Strike No Government Will Claim
DOOLOW, SOMALIA – An aircraft struck the compound of General Mahad Abdirahman Aden, the former commander of the Somali Custodial...
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Every Rahanweyn President Since 2018 Has Been Chosen in Mogadishu
BAIDOA, SOMALIA – Forces loyal to former Southwest State president Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen attacked federal troops and the units...
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Xananbuure Graduates Cross Into Ethiopia and Mogadishu Calls It Leave
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somalia's national security adviser, Aways Haji Yusuf, confirmed on Tuesday 1 September that soldiers from the Saudi-funded...
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Deni Puts Every Technical in Bari Under His Own Signature
Puntland's Bari security meeting bans unlicensed weapons in the towns, puts every armed vehicle under the president's signature and orders...
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Sixty MPs Move Against Ali Yusuf Hosh and the Federal System He Could Not Hold
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Members of the House of the People submitted a no-confidence motion on Tuesday 1 September against Ali...
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Mogadishu Says the Ankara Declaration Now Governs Ethiopia
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somalia's state minister for foreign affairs, Ali Mohamed Omar, said in an interview published on 2 September...
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The Houthis Are Arming Al-Shabaab Across the Gulf of Aden
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – An investigation published on 1 September traced a working partnership between al-Shabaab and the Houthis that moves...
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Basra Is Thirty Kilometres From Villa Somalia and Still Being Fought Over
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The Somali Armed Forces announced on 30 August that they were running a major operation against al-Shabaab...
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Puntland Brings Washington to Bosaso While Ankara Flies Unannounced
BOSASO, SOMALIA – Puntland President Said Abdullahi Deni met the commander of Washington's special operations forces in East Africa at...
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The Justice and Solidarity Party Wins the Galmudug Rerun Towfiiq Was Barred From
DHUSAMAREB, SOMALIA – President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's Justice and Solidarity Party won 67 of the 89 seats in the Galmudug...
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