Somalia has condemned Israel in the halls of the United Nations. Its ambassador in New York, Abubakar Osman Baale, branded the recent Israeli strike in Doha...
No exceptions. No uniforms off duty. Mogadishu enforces the rules ahead of elections. Somali police have arrested 11 soldiers in Mogadishu for carrying weapons illegally while...
A deadline has been set. Ignore it, the opposition warns, and Somalia risks sliding into a constitutional and security crisis. Somalia’s fragile political equilibrium is facing...
One of Somalia’s most reliable partners has not paid on time—and the delay is rippling through an already fragile budget. The Somali government has confirmed a...
He was preparing to leave Somalia with his pregnant wife. Weeks later, he was shot dead in the street. A young rickshaw driver who had recently...
The Fifty-Year Fantasy: Mogadishu Plans a Vote While Missing a State. The Federal Government of Somalia’s latest announcement—a supposed return to direct, one-person, one-vote elections in...
U.S. special operations forces joined Puntland’s elite counterterrorism units in a major assault on an Islamic State stronghold in Somalia’s Balade Valley, according to Somali security...
Somalia’s largest opposition alliance, the Somali Salvation Forum, has accused government security forces of carrying out forced evictions, unlawful arrests and the killing of a civilian...
Somalia’s federal government has been forced into full digital retreat after its much-hyped E-TAS travel system was hit by a massive security breach that exposed thousands...
Somalia’s Political Map Shifts as Top Leaders Unite Behind Former PM for 2026 Race. A group of prominent Somali political figures announced on Monday the formation...
The National Independent Electoral Commission (NIEC) in Mogadishu has heralded the registration of nearly one million voters in the Benadir region as a significant democratic stride,...
The grim realities unfolding off the coast of Lampedusa, where desperate men, women, and children flee failed states only to perish in the Mediterranean, are a...
Puntland’s elite Dervish forces have captured a Turkish national and ISIS operative, identified as Feyzul Hashim Suleyman, during an intelligence-led raid in Togga Balade, a remote...
Suspected al-Shabaab militants attacked Mogadishu’s Godka Jilacow prison on Saturday, unleashing a suicide bombing and gunfire assault on one of the most fortified facilities in Somalia’s...
Leaders from Somalia’s federal member states of Jubaland and Puntland joined forces with prominent opposition figures in Nairobi on Thursday to launch a new political platform,...
Mogadishu awoke Thursday to the sight of armored personnel carriers blocking key intersections and troops patrolling roads leading to the residences of prominent opposition leaders. The...
Mogadishu’s simmering political tensions erupted into open violence Tuesday when government forces and opposition guards exchanged fire outside the Warta Nabadda district police station, leaving casualties...
