Ugandan peacekeeping troops stand during a ceremony at Mogadishu airport in Somalia May 18, 2014. U.N.-backed peacekeepers pushed the Islamist fighters out of Mogadishu in 2011, but the al Qaida-linked group has continued to launch guerrilla-style attacks. Marthe van der Wolf ADDIS ABABA — AFRICOM, the United States Military command for Africa, believes that al-Shabab will...
November 14, 2026
Category: News
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Suspected al Shabaab militants kill at least 12 in northern Kenya ambush
BY NOOR ALI Suspected Somali al Shabaab militants killed at least 12 people in an ambush in northern Kenya on Monday, a day after Kenyan jets pounded the Islamists’ bases over the border, disaster and police officials said. The east African nation, which sent its troops into Somalia in October 2011 to pursue the militants,...
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Qarax ka dhacay Muqdisho
Waxa goor dhaweyd qarax lala beegsaday gudoomiye ku xigeenkii hore ee degmada Xamar Jajab ee gobalka Banaadir Md.Faarax Daahir , xili uu ku sugnaa gudaha degmada Xamar Weyne ee gobalka Banaadir. Gudoomiyaha degmada Xamar Weyne Cabduqaadir Maxamed Cabduqaadir ayaa xaqiijiyay jiritaanka qaraxa, waxa uuna sheegay in qaraxa uu ka dhacay gaari uu watay Md. Faarax Daahir...
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Warka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka maanta aan idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah: Hoggaamiye sare oo ka mid ahaa Shabaab oo lagu dilay duleedka Qoryooley, Shabaab oo ka hadlay hadalkii shalay ee kasoo yeeray Kenya ee ku aadanaa duqeyntii dhinaca cirkaee degmada Jilib iyo warar kale. Warka oo dhan hoos ka dhegeyso
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Somalia on Verge of New Famine as Donors Fail to Provide Funding
By Ilya Gridneff War-torn Somalia is on the verge of another humanitarian crisis and may face another famine unless donor funding is received, a United Nations official said. Less than a fifth of the $933 million needed to fund humanitarian work in the Horn of Africa country has been received and primary health-care services will...
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TURKEY STRONG ENOUGH TO HELP BOTH SOMA AND SOMALIA, PM ERDOĞAN SAYS
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks during a ceremony organized by the Turkish International Development Agency (TİKA) in Ankara, May 19. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said Turkey is “powerful enough to help both Soma and Somalia,” responding to criticism that his government failed to provide timely help to the mine disaster-struck western Turkish town of...
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Lisbon takes over anti-piracy body
BY TPN/ LUSA Portugal has assumed the presidency of the judicial forum of the body that is fighting piracy off the Somali coast created by the UN, involving various countries and organisations, a source at the foreign ministry said. The organisation, which Portugal has been a member of since 2009, is composed of countries, international...
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SR4.5m heist gang busted within 24 hours in Makkah
Jewelry and cash recovered from the thieves in Makkah displayed. (Courtesy of Sabq.org) A gang of four Yemenis has been arrested for stealing an estimated SR4.5 million worth of jewelry from a gold store in Makkah’s Khanisa neighborhood on Friday. The gang was arrested within 24 hours of the crime by field teams from the...
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OBSOLETE LAWS USED TO PERSECUTE TWO DETAINED JOURNALISTS
Reporters Without Borders condemns the unfairness of the proceedings to which Yusuf Abdi Gabobe, the owner and founder of the newspaper Haatuf, and Ahmed Ali Egeh, the editor of its Somali-language version, are being subjected in Hargeisa, the capital of the breakaway northwestern territory of Somaliland. Gabobe and Egeh have been held since 10 May, when they were...
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Chinese EXIM Bank to finance Aysha wind power
By Yonas Abiye – Three Chinese firms shortlisted for Geba hydro-power project – Over USD 32.7 mln secured from power export The Ministry of Water, Energy and Irrigation (MoWEI) said Tuesday that it had received promising signals of getting a loan from the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank of China to finance the Aysha II wind energy project,...