2 year agoAlShabaab founder, Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansour has been cleared to run for public office in Somalia as he receives eligibility certificate for the candidacy of Nov 17, leadership in regional election.
2 year agoSomalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland soldiers went on strike on Saturday, seizing airport in Garowe town, blocking roads and forcing businesses to close in protest over unpaid salaries
ISIS claims targeted assassination of custom officer in Bosaso
2 year agoAn explosive device attached into a car belonging to a govt official have been reported near Sayidka junction, few km away from presidential palace in Mogadishu, the identity of the official still unclear. Ambulances rushed to the scene
Reports of an explosion in the vicinity of Dabka junction, Mogadishu.
2 year agoEthiopian troops with battle wagons and trucks all full of soldiers and guns entered Guri'el town, some 400 km north of Somali capital Mogadishu.
The African Union in Somalia (@amisomsomalia ) denies claims by AlShabaab. The mission confirmed 4 soldiers injured in explosion near Baladweyne town
5 people travelling to Mogadishu forced out of a taxi and shot dead by armed men in Lafoole, some 15 Km north west of Mogadishu
Landline explosion targeted Ethiopian military convoy on a routine rotational deployment at El-Gal village near Beledweyne, Monday. Al-Shabaab claimed killing 30 soldiers in the attack. Locals confirmed explosion but say there is no independent confirmation of casualty figures.
State media: 11 Al-Shabaab members including a senior figure killed in overnight airstrike in Kamsuuma, Lower Jubba region
2 year agoThe U.S. suspects the rifles were bound from Somalia to Yemen to aid the Houthi rebels in the nation's three-year-old civil war, and that Iran was involved.
2 year agoU.S. Conducts Airstrike in Support of the Federal Government of Somalia
Eritrea, Ethiopia and Italy foreign ministers held tripartite talks in Rome, discussing on issues including enhanced economic cooperation; joint work for stabilization of Somalia
2 year agoA plane carrying former intelligence chief Hussein Osman and his bulletproof car landed in Baido town on Thursday. Hussien is a Canditate for Southwest regional state leadership, the election will be taking place next month, federal government is backing to him
Sisi: The Horn of Africa is undergoing a major and promising transformation
Somalia: ISIS claims targeted assassination of two Policemen in Mogadishu
One solider killed, another injured when intelligence and police forces clashes in Mogadishu's jubba junction. Somalia
2 year agoStatement from @SomaliPM's office appointing ministerial level committee to work with the Upper House in addressing concerns by the regional administrations
17 Somalis in question landed in Kenya from Mogadishu, Somalia, and were on their way to Entebbe, Uganda
Gunmen shot dead a young businessman in Mogadishu's Hamar Weyne market. Somalia
2 year agoMayor of Mogadishu @engyarisow cuts the ribbon of rebuilt HQ of Wadajir district of Mogadishu on Sunday. The mayor said the militants will not stop the development of capital Mogadishu. The HQ was being wrecked by an Alshabaab attack months ago.
Somalia's Galmudug state President asked to recruit especial regional states' soldiers in their territories, amid rising attacks by AlShabaab in the horn of Africa war-torn nation.
Somali government soldiers continue to shoot at public vehicles in Mogadishu amid fragile ssecurity.
ISIL group in Somalia claims to have killed an intelligence soldier after brief gun-fighting at largest market in the capital of Mogadishu
The US conducted a "collective self-defense airstrike" targeting al-Shabaab near Araara, Somalia, Sunday. @USAfricaCommand assesses 4 "militants" were killed. The strike was in defense of local partners and no US forces were present. It's the 27th US airstrike in Somalia in 2018
2 year agoAt least 17 people are killed in a SBIED attack at a restaurant and another nine are injured in a separate grenade attack at a hotel in the town of Baidoa, 250 km west of Somali's capital Mogadishu
IS-Somalia claims it assassinated a government customs officer in Bosaso yesterday using guns
October 7: IS-Somalia claimed the assassinations of a Somali customs officer and an intelligence officer at Mogadishu's Bakaara Junction
Kenyan court acquits three female Al-Shabaab suspects
ISIS claims umpteenth targeted assassination: today a Somali customs officer killed in Bosaso
