Monday, April 20, 2026
The United States government has called for an end to the Lasanood war, and for Somaliland to come up with a clear path to elections. The United States government has expressed concern over the ongoing conflict in Lasanod, and called on the parties to calm the situation and come together...
Rep. Matt Gaetz, a member of the Republican Party, wants the US troops to be withdrawn from Somalia. The representative from Fort Walton Beach has issued a new resolution to force President Joe Biden to withdraw US troops from Somalia. Gaetz said that he submitted a document forcing the House of...
The United States has appointed Ambassador Richard H. Riley as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Somalia. The new ambassador has risen to the top of US foreign policy. Richard H. Riley, is a senior member of the Foreign Service. He became Economic Counselor at the US Embassy in Ottawa, Canada. The new...
Norway's security and intelligence agency, PST, has announced the arrest of two Somali sisters who returned from Syria early Wednesday, along with their children. The Norwegian authorities charged the sisters with being members of the ISIS organization. Norway has announced that it is repatriating two sisters, Ayaan and Leila Juma, and...
Somali Police Commander Brigadier General Sulub Ahmed Firin received in his office the Police Commander of the African Union Operation ATMIS Hillary Sao Kanu and the officer led by him. The meeting discussed the acceleration of cooperation between the ATMIS Police and the Somali Police Command, and that the ATMIS...
The Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia, Hamse Abdi Barre, has laid the foundation stone of the Flour Factory, which is the first of its kind that Somali businessmen have implemented in the country after the collapse. The Prime Minister, who is encouraging investment in the Industry and...
The Minister of Internal Affairs and Reconciliation of the Federal Government of Somalia, Ahmed Macalin Fiqi, has revealed that the Al-Shabaab group has been an obstacle for the country to hold elections in person and vote. Minister Fiqi said that there are millions of people living in the areas controlled...
The Ethiopian government today named Getachow Reda as the interim president of the Tigray region, according to a recent news release from the Prime Minister's Office, Abiy Ahmed. Getachow Reda, who previously held various positions in the Ethiopian government before the conflict between the TPLF and the Ethiopian government, as...
The African Union has requested about 90 million dollars for its peacekeeping forces in Somalia, which provide support to their military forces in the fight against Al-Shabaab. Ambassador Bankole Adeoye, the head of the African Union for political, peace and security affairs, said that more than 19,600 soldiers of the...
The House of People's Representatives of Ethiopia decided by a majority vote to remove the TPLF group from the list of Terrorists, which was added by the Ethiopian government during the war in Northern Ethiopia. Although there was a long debate in the Ethiopian Parliament on the issue of removing...