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North East State soldiers seated with their weapons before a line of technicals, the force whose ranks include men recruited in Sanaag

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Mogadishu Takes Its Campaign Against Puntland Into Sanaag

September 28, 2026

LAS ANOD, SOMALIA – The federal government paid more than 2,500 soldiers of the North East State their first federal ...

Members of the House of the People vote in the chamber at Villa Hargeisa, where the Defence Committee has summoned the defence minister and the army commander

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The Defence Committee Summons Fiqi and the Army Chief Over Cuts to Six Thousand Soldiers and Families

by Dalmar

September 27, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The Defence Committee of Somalia's House of the People on Saturday 26 September summoned Defence Minister Ahmed ...

Children of fallen Somali National Army soldiers in uniform and Agoonta Ciidanka sashes with an army officer, the families the Orphans Care Agency was founded to support

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Army Orphans Lose Half Their Allowance Months After the Orphans Care Agency Was Launched

by Jama

September 27, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Families raising the children of Somali National Army soldiers killed fighting al-Shabaab say the monthly allowance for ...

A Somali National Army name tape and national flag patch, the uniform of the force whose soldier was stopped and killed by clan militia at Ceelbaraf in Middle Shabelle

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Ceelbaraf Takes Another Soldier and Mogadishu Answers With an Investigation

by Jama

September 12, 2026

CEELBARAF, SOMALIA – Armed men organised along clan lines stopped the Somali National Army soldier Ahmed Shire Hussein off his ...

Somali National Army troops and armoured vehicles on a Baidoa street, the city at the centre of the new federal offensive in the Bay region

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Mogadishu Sends Its Army Into the Bay Region Against the President It Removed

by Jama

September 10, 2026

BAIDOA, SOMALIA – President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has ordered the Somali National Army to mount an operation driving forces loyal ...

Somali National Army recruits on parade, the force Ahmed Moalim Fiqi says is ready to take over from AUSSOM

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Ahmed Moalim Fiqi Declares Somalia Ready as the Money for AUSSOM Runs Out

by Jama

September 9, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Defence Minister Ahmed Moalim Fiqi opened Somalia's National Internal Security Conference on Tuesday 1 September with the ...

Newly graduated Somali National Army soldiers carry the Somali flag on the parade ground at Xananbuure in Galgadud, the class from which hundreds later crossed into Ethiopia's Somali Region

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Xananbuure Graduates Cross Into Ethiopia and Mogadishu Calls It Leave

by Dalmar

September 3, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somalia's national security adviser, Aways Haji Yusuf, confirmed on Tuesday 1 September that soldiers from the Saudi-funded ...

A Somali National Army gunner on a technical, the kind of unit fighting al-Shabaab at Basra thirty kilometres from Mogadishu

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Basra Is Thirty Kilometres From Villa Somalia and Still Being Fought Over

by Dalmar

September 1, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The Somali Armed Forces announced on 30 August that they were running a major operation against al-Shabaab ...

Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed speaking in Mogadishu, where he accused the army and the Presidential Guard of taking part in the evictions

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Sheikh Sharif Says the Army That Fled Al-Shabaab Is Fearless in Yaqshiid

by Jama

August 25, 2026

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Former President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has accused the national army and the Presidential Guard of taking ...

Somali National Army troops and armoured vehicles on a street in Baidoa during Monday's fighting with forces loyal to former president Laftagareen

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Baidoa Wakes to a War Mogadishu Calls Terrorism

by Dalmar

August 18, 2026

Baidoa, SOMALIA – Fighters loyal to former Southwest State President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen battled federal troops inside Baidoa for ...

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Tag: Somali National Army

Mogadishu Takes Its Campaign Against Puntland Into Sanaag

The Defence Committee Summons Fiqi and the Army Chief Over Cuts to Six Thousand Soldiers and Families

Army Orphans Lose Half Their Allowance Months After the Orphans Care Agency Was Launched

Ceelbaraf Takes Another Soldier and Mogadishu Answers With an Investigation

Mogadishu Sends Its Army Into the Bay Region Against the President It Removed

Ahmed Moalim Fiqi Declares Somalia Ready as the Money for AUSSOM Runs Out

Xananbuure Graduates Cross Into Ethiopia and Mogadishu Calls It Leave

Basra Is Thirty Kilometres From Villa Somalia and Still Being Fought Over

Sheikh Sharif Says the Army That Fled Al-Shabaab Is Fearless in Yaqshiid

Baidoa Wakes to a War Mogadishu Calls Terrorism

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Mogadishu Takes Its Campaign Against Puntland Into Sanaag

The Defence Committee Summons Fiqi and the Army Chief Over Cuts to Six Thousand Soldiers and Families

Army Orphans Lose Half Their Allowance Months After the Orphans Care Agency Was Launched

The South West Peace Council Presses for a Ceasefire and Laftagareen’s Camp Says No

Puntland Frees the Sibu 1 and Takes Fifteen Pirates Alive

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