Tuesday, April 14, 2026
The African Union ATMIS command has issued a press release on the Al-Shabaab attack at dawn on their base in Buulo Mareer, 120 km southwest of Mogadishu. ATMIS said Al-Shabaab attacked their base in an attack that used a vehicle filled with explosives and suicide bombers. The ATMIS mission said that...
The al-Shabaab group said that they have taken over the ATMIS military base in Bulomareer district in the Lower Shabelle region. A statement from the Al-Shabaab organization said that the Al-Shabaab group attacked Bulomareer from several directions and they were unable to take control of the ATMIS military base. Al-Shabaab's statement...
The European Union (EU) has approved an amount of 20.5 million euros in budget support for the Federal Government of Somalia (DFS). This support coincides with the Federal Government and the European Union launching a Joint Action Plan for cooperation between the European Union and Somalia, which outlines the priorities...
The United Nations has announced that it has received a sum of 2.4 billion dollars to fund aid operations for about 32 million people living in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. But the United Nations said that these donations fell short of the economic funding it was looking for as it...
The weekly meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Federal Government of Somalia which was chaired today by the Deputy Prime Minister and Acting Prime Minister Salah Ahmed Jama focused on the flooding of the Shabelle River in the Hiran region, the preparation of the certificate examination in...
U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Public Affairs Press Release: Wednesday, May 24 Contact:Treasury Public Affairs, Press@Treasury.gov Treasury Designates Terror Operatives and Illicit Charcoal Smugglers in Somalia. WASHINGTON Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) targeted 26 individuals and entities connected with the terrorist group al Shabaab, including15 financial...
The United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) carried out an airstrike targeting the Al-Shabaab group in Jilib district on May 20, 2023. According to Timothy S. Pietrack, AFRICOM's Deputy Chief of Public Affairs, the initial assessment of this attack shows that the bombing was carried out without causing any harm to...
The Prime Minister of Somalia, Hamza Abdi Barre, attended the annual meeting of the African Development Bank (AFDB) today in the city of Sharma el-Sheikh. The summit, which focuses on climate action and mobilizing private sector financing for green growth, aims to set a sustainable development plan for Africa as...
The Ethiopian government has revealed the real damage caused by the two-year war in the Tigray region, which the warring parties have recently reconciled. The Minister of Finance of Ethiopia, Ahmed Shide Mohamed, who opposed the report of the 9 bills to the Budget Planning Committee of the People's Assembly,...
More news is coming out of the planned operations that the government forces carried out last night in the Howlwadaag district of Mogadishu, in which members of Al-Shabaab and others were arrested. A statement issued by the police command of the general division of Banadir region said that in the...