Mogadishu Trapped, Cairo Panics: The Horn Enters Its Most Dangerous Phase. In just twenty-four hours, the geopolitical scaffolding that anchored Somalia’s relations with the Gulf for...
Mogadishu Paralysis: How Somaliland’s Icebreaker Strategy Is Stripping Somalia of Its Diplomatic Leverage. As the Icebreaker Strategy accelerates toward its decisive phase in Hargeisa, the political...
Somalia’s main opposition coalition has sharply rejected the Banadir Regional Council elections scheduled for Thursday in Mogadishu, calling the process neither free nor fair and warning...
December 25 is no longer an election date. It is a trigger. The Republic of Somalia is standing at a historic precipice. What was once a...
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...
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...
What Mogadishu says publicly and what regional security dynamics reveal privately are now moving in opposite directions, and the gap between the two is no longer...
HARGEISA — Somaliland has formally declared that visas or travel authorizations issued by the Federal Government of Somalia are null and void within its borders, in...
The European Union has dispatched a naval warship to the Somali coast following what maritime officials describe as the first suspected act of Somali piracy since...
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...
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...
Somalia’s top auditor has cast doubt on the integrity of some of the federal government’s most important financial streams, warning that lapses in record-keeping and oversight...
Factories, schools, cemeteries, and even military bases—vanishing under President Hassan Sheikh’s silent watch. Tour Mogadishu today and the evidence is everywhere: bulldozed lots, fenced compounds, and...
Security forces in Mogadishu exchanged fire Thursday with armed militia resisting a federal plan to reclaim a tract of land around Horseed Stadium, a site long...
Deadly suicide bombing hits Jaalle Siyaad Military Academy in Mogadishu as al-Shabab escalates attacks amid intensified military crackdown. A suicide bombing at Mogadishu’s Jaalle Siyaad Military...
Militant shelling exposes Mogadishu’s crumbling stability as Turkey and UAE wage covert power war over Somalia’s future. Al-Shabaab’s mortar attack on the Halane Base Camp highlights...
20 killed in suicide bombing at Mogadishu military base as al-Shabab targets Somali army recruitment—again A suicide bombing at Damaanyo base in Mogadishu kills 20 and...
Somalia’s own soldiers are assassinating their commanders, selling Somalia’s energy blocks to the highest bidder. Somalia now faces its most dangerous turning point since 1991. Al-Shabaab...
Trump eyes embassy closures as US rejects UN plan to fund peacekeepers in Somalia — Mogadishu’s last lifeline in peril. The US shocks the UN by...
Elon Musk’s satellite internet service gains access to Somalia, raising questions over digital sovereignty, censorship—and who controls Africa’s skies.Starlink officially enters Somalia with government blessing. But...