Wednesday, October 21, 2026
71 MPs from the two Houses of the Federal Parliament of Somalia who held a meeting last night in Mogadishu strongly opposed the plan to amend the interim constitution. The members of the two chambers of the Somali Parliament said that the way things are going is not to change...
More news is coming out of planned operations by the government forces and those of international friends in the past few hours in several areas in the South of Mudug region. The cooperating forces have targeted areas where members of the Al-Shabaab group were located in the areas of Qaida...
The Minister of Internal Affairs of Puntland, Abdi Farah Saeed Juha said that the accounts of the organizations that implemented the projects in Puntland are empty. The Minister of Internal Affairs has expressed great pessimism about receiving the support that Puntland used to receive from international organizations. Juxa said that the...
More news is coming out of a planned operation that the local re-election forces have carried out today in areas on the outskirts of Harardhere district in Mudug region. The operation which was against Al-Shabaab group was carried out by the army in the area called Galcad Jiimo and other...
The Human Rights Watch has expressed great hope for the release of Abdi Mohamud Omar, known as Abdi Illey. The former president of the Somali regional government of Ethiopia, has been imprisoned for the last five years for crimes against humanity. Laetitia Bader, the executive director of the human rights advocacy...
The Jubbaland military court has sat for the first hearing of the case of Chief Adan Mohamed Gedi, who is said to be a member of the Al-Shabaab group. Adan Mohamed Gedi, a 44-year-old member of Al-Shabaab, was captured by the Jubbaland army while fighting for the Al-Shabaab group, according...
The President of the Federal Government of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, held a meeting with his country's counterpart, Isaias Afwerki, last night at the President's House in Eritrea. The two presidents discussed the strengthening of cooperation between the two countries, issues in the region and the world as a whole,...
A military plane owned by the Turkish government has taken some of the people injured in the attack by Al-Shabaab on the SYL hotel in Mogadishu from the Aden Adde airport in Mogadishu. 18 people were injured in the attack on the SYL hotel two nights ago. Various government officials including...
The Somali Parliament has denied that one of the parliamentarians was involved in the attack on the SYL Hotel in Mogadishu, which killed at least 3 people and injured 30 others. The Secretary General of the Parliament, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdulle (Jaabiri) has confirmed that the identity card that was displayed...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is reportedly building a new military force similar to France's foreign forces, according to international defense analysts Intelligence Online. These forces will consist of at least 3,000 foreign recruits and aim to strengthen the military power of the UAE. A former French special forces officer is...