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MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s former Foreign Affairs Minister, Abdisaed Muse Ali, accused Turkey on Thursday of carrying out a “massacre” of Somali nationals on Puntland’s coast, escalating a row over a drone strike that killed four suspected pirates near Garmaal, in the northeastern region’s Nugaal area. “The massacre of Somali citizens on Puntland’s coast is […]
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s former President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on Tuesday placed sole responsibility for the deadly fighting in Baidoa on the federal government of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, arguing that the violence was the direct consequence of a change of power imposed by force in Southwest State this past March. Sharif, addressing the escalating […]
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – A drone strike killed four suspected Somali pirates near Garmaal on Puntland’s Nugaal coast on Tuesday, a day after gunmen hijacked the Cameroon-flagged cargo vessel MV Lutuf off Somalia’s northeastern coast, Daily Somalia reported on Tuesday. The general cargo ship was boarded by eight armed men at approximately 11:36 a.m. UTC on […]
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud arrived Monday in the southern, Galmudug-administered half of Galkayo, a city still bearing the tension of recent fighting, as Puntland President Saeed Abdullahi Deni remained stationed in the northern half under his administration’s control just kilometers away. The visit comes weeks after forces loyal to the two […]
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud declared on Sunday that Somalia no longer needs foreign peacekeepers to guarantee its own security, telling African Union troops it was time to go home even as the continental mission they serve in faces the most serious funding crisis of its two-decade history. “We have reached a point […]
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Fierce clashes erupted Monday in Baidoa, the interim capital of Somalia’s Southwest state, between federal government troops and forces loyal to ousted regional leader Abdiaziz Laftagaren, whose spokesman claimed his fighters had entered parts of the city in an early-morning assault. Gunfire and explosions echoed across Baidoa through the morning, forcing families […]
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s national army marked its largest single graduation of security forces since the collapse of the central government in 1991, as roughly 3,000 newly trained soldiers passed out on Sunday in the central region of Galgadud under a Saudi-funded training program. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud attended the ceremony in person, presiding over […]
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – A video circulating on social media this week shows Somalis in the country’s Southwest state setting fire to the Turkish flag while holding aloft the state’s own banner, a striking act of defiance that captures a rapid souring of public sentiment toward a country long regarded as one of Somalia’s closest allies. […]
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Gen. Jimale Takar, commander of the Somali National Army’s 54th Division, has rejoined Puntland’s security forces and agreed that Danab units under his command at the Ligle military camp in Garowe will no longer report to Somalia’s federal government in Mogadishu, officials and clan leaders told Somaliguardian on Saturday. The decision marks […]
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – President Yoweri Museveni has said Uganda’s nearly two-decade military deployment in Somalia was driven primarily by solidarity with Ethiopia – whose forces invaded Somalia in 2006 to remove the Islamic Courts Union from power in Mogadishu – rather than by any direct stake in Somalia’s own stability. Museveni made the remarks last […]
