Somalia Security News
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How Somalia’s Electoral Crisis Is Fracturing the Nation
A Crisis Engineered from Villa Somalia Somalia's electoral crisis was manufactured in Villa Somalia. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has spent...
Read moreDetailsAl-Shabaab Strikes While Somalia’s Leaders Fight Each Other
Cross-Border Raids Signal Widening Reach Al-Shabaab attacks have intensified across Somalia and its borders in recent weeks, underscoring how the...
Read moreDetailsGalmudug Rejects Hassan Sheikh’s Federal Elections With Show of Force
Dhusamareb, SOMALIA – The people of Galmudug have made their position unmistakable. In scenes circulating widely on social media, residents...
Read moreDetailsIsrael’s Somaliland Gambit Threatens to Drag Somalia Into Foreign Wars
Mogadishu, SOMALIA – Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi landed in Jerusalem on June 14 in the first-ever state visit by...
Read moreDetailsHassan Sheikh Launches Mogadishu Crackdown While Al-Shabaab Advances
Mogadishu, SOMALIA – The Mogadishu crackdown that erupted in early June has laid bare a devastating truth about President Hassan...
Read moreDetailsSomaliland’s Jerusalem Embassy Exposes Hassan Sheikh’s Weakness
Jerusalem, ISRAEL – Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi opened his country's first embassy anywhere in the world on Monday. Notably,...
Read moreDetailsVilla Somalia’s Troops March on Galmudug and Hirshabelle
Dhusmareb, SOMALIA – The federal government is airlifting weapons and soldiers into regional capitals to ensure that Somalia state elections...
Read moreDetailsSomalia’s Spy Chief Breaks With Hassan Sheikh Over Galmudug Election
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The Galmudug election has done what al-Shabaab could not. It has turned the head of Somalia's spy...
Read moreDetailsAUSSOM Funding Collapse Leaves Somalia Exposed to Al-Shabaab
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The African Union mission tasked with holding back al-Shabaab is running out of money, and the timing...
Read moreDetailsPuntland Strips Hassan Sheikh of Federal Legitimacy Amid Mogadishu Turmoil
GAROWE, SOMALIA – Puntland has torn up its recognition of the federal government, declaring that President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and...
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Garmaal Buries Fishermen the First Reports Called Pirates
GARMAAL, SOMALIA– A drone strike that Puntland security sources first described as a clean hit on fleeing pirates has come...
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