MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The UK has pledged £5 million ($6.6 million) in aid to the Somali national army through the UN Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS) Trust Fund, aimed at bolstering the country’s security forces. UNSOS has said that the aid will provide essential non-lethal support, including food rations and communications eq...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia has accused Ethiopia of providing unauthorized arms shipments to the semiautonomous state of Puntland. The Foreign Ministry said the arms shipments violated Somalia’s sovereignty and it is “threatening regional security.” “This action constitutes a grave infringement on Somalia’s sovereignty and po...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia remains one of the world’s most serious humanitarian crises with millions of people exposed to unimaginable suffering, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on the occasion of World Humanitarian Day. The suffering is due to recurring and intensifying climate s...
The humanitarian crisis in Somalia is deepening as drought and conflict worsen conditions for displaced citizens. In the capital Mogadishu’s internally displaced person’s camps, food shortages are increasing following the Somali government cutting financial support for the World Food Programme’s electronic card system. Nearly 150,000 Somalis h...
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 – AFP The death toll from a blast at a cafe in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has climbed to nine, security sources told AFP Monday, after a car bomb struck the venue packed with football fans watching the Euro 2024 final. “Nine civilians were killed and 20 others wounded in the explosion,” Mohamed Yusuf...
A boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, killing 49 migrants and leaving 140 others missing, the International Organization for Migration or IOM said on Tuesday. The vessel, carrying 260 migrants, capsized near Alghareef Point in Shabwah governorate. Among the dead were 31 women and six children. According to survivors, the boat departed from B...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) — Lawmakers in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland have rejected a maritime access deal with Ethiopia. In a joint statement late on Tuesday, members of both houses of Somaliland’s parliament, mainly from the coastal Awdal and Salal provinces, said the Red Sea access deal was “illegal” and ai...
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...