BAIDOA, Somalia (AA) – The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) has completed the handover of 21 military bases to the Somali national army, marking the official end of the three-phase troop withdrawal process, the mission has announced. The peacekeeping mission has withdrawn a total of 9,000 troops from Somalia in preparation f...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) — The Somali Defense Ministry said on Monday that the army, backed by local and international partners, carried out military operations against the al-Shabaab group, killing more than 95 “terrorists”. The Somali National Army (SNA) conducted operations in Middle Shabelle, Galgadud, and the north-central prov...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Several people are feared dead or injured after a powerful explosion shook Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, according to local reports. A security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the media that the blast is believed to be a suicide bombing targeting a busy restaurant near the National Theat...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – More than 32 people were killed and over 63 others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a busy beach in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police said. Abdifatah Adan Hassan, Somali police spokesman, told a news conference on Saturday that the attack included a suicide explosion followed by gunfire. [&hel...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Defense Ministry announced Sunday that three personnel from its armed forces and an officer from the Bahrain Defense Force were killed with two others wounded in a terror attack in Somalia. The attack at a military camp in the Somali capital of Mogadishu was carried out […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) — Casualties were feared in northern Somalia after al-Qaeda-affiliated group al-Shabaab launched attacks Wednesday against an army base, according to local officials. Heavy gunfire was exchanged during the multi-pronged strike on an army camp in northern Mudug province, a military official in the central state of Galmud...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – The East African Community (EAC) officially embraced Somalia as its eighth member state during the 23rd ordinary summit of EAC heads of state. In a communique by the EAC Summit of Heads of State, the regional bloc said that the leaders from the region agreed to admit “the Federal Republic of […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somali said Thursday that its forces backed by local militias had killed at least 100 al-Shabaab fighters in central Galmudug state. Information Minister Daud Aweis told reporters that the fighting took place around Wisil and Shabelow districts, where the troops inflicted heavy casualties and “the terrorist bodi...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The Somali government has claimed that it killed 1,650 al-Shabaab militants and injured more than 550 others in the last two months during several military operations in the south-central regions. At least 19 high-ranking militants were among those killed in the recent operations in the Horn of Africa country, a...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) in Somalia has announced that it apprehended a senior al-Shabaab operative responsible for procuring weaponry and explosives from foreign sources. The spy agency said Sakaria Kamal, better known as Saki, is responsible for procuring weaponry “solely to arm the...
