Somalia’s Foreign Ministry Goes Dark as Mogadishu Runs Short of Cash
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The lights went out at Somalia's foreign ministry this week, and the reason was almost too plain ...
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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 ...
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Hirshabelle Registers Voters While Mogadishu Picks Its President
JOWHAR, SOMALIA – Hirshabelle votes on 20 August in an election whose most consequential outcome was settled a fortnight earlier...
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