Puntland has arrested four men accused of links to Somali pirates who are holding commercial vessels hijacked off its coast.
Reliable sources say that one of the men arrested was the translator for one of the pirates who was holding a commercial vessel.
The men were recently arrested in the Garacad...
The Iranian government has strongly warned against the new plan announced by US President Donald Trump, called the “Freedom Project”, which seeks to remove blocked ships from the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
A senior Iranian parliament member, Ebrahim Azizi, said that any US intervention in the Strait would be a...
A new crisis has arisen off the coast of Yemen after it was difficult to return an oil tanker named “MT Eureka”, which was hijacked off the coast of Shabwah province, with 12 Egyptian and Indian sailors on board. There are also suspicions that Yemenis are involved in this...
The Independent National Electoral and Boundaries Commission (INEBC) today officially released the full schedule for the country’s regional elections in 2026, with the first elections set to begin in the South West State this May.
According to the commission’s schedule, the South West State will be the first state to...
The United Nations Transitional Mission in Somalia (UNTMIS) has formally welcomed the invitation extended by the Federal Government of Somalia to the political parties to hold a conference to discuss the political situation in the country and to discuss the critical issues that the Government and the Opposition are...
The President of the Federal Government of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, has invited the Somali Future Council to attend a meeting in Mogadishu on May 10, 2026.
A press release from the presidency said that the invitation came after consultations the president had with various sectors of society in recent...
The Minister of Education, Culture and Higher Education of the Federal Government of Somalia, Farah Sheikh Abdulkadir, has ordered the immediate eviction of civilians from the land owned by the University of Somalia.
The order was issued while the minister was speaking at a groundbreaking ceremony for the university’s modernization...
Piracy concerns are rapidly increasing in the Horn of Africa region, after two ship hijackings and other suspicious incidents were reported in the western Indian Ocean, prompting maritime security officials to raise the threat level for the region.
In its latest assessment, the Joint Maritime Information Center said the Somali...
The Commander of the Somali Police Force, Brigadier General Asad Osman Abdullahi, chaired the weekly meeting of the Commands, Divisions, Independent Sessions, and Port and Airport Commands, which focused on the overall security situation in the country, especially in the capital, Mogadishu.
The meeting was also attended by officers from...
The first Somali pilgrims were officially bid farewell today at Mogadishu’s Aden Adde Airport as they set off to perform this year’s Hajj.
The farewell ceremony was inaugurated by the Minister of Religious Affairs and Islamic Affairs, Sheikh Mukhtaar Robow, who officially opened the first flights that took Somali pilgrims...