Garowe (WDN) – Puntland has formally ordered that military personnel and vehicles operating under the authority of Somalia’s Federal Government will no longer be permitted to enter, transit through, or remain within Puntland territory, marking a dramatic escalation in the long-running dispute between Garowe and Mogadishu. In a statement issued following a meeting of the...
Mogadishu (WDN) – The former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and the leadership of Somalia’s House of the People have held a series of high-level political meetings over the past 48 hours aimed at reopening the Federal Parliament and organizing the election of a new Speaker of the Lower House amid the controversy surrounding the legitimacy...
Kigali (WDN) – Rwanda has received another group of vulnerable asylum seekers evacuated from Libya, through the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM), an initiative panned to offer a renewed opportunity to hundreds of people who had become trapped in one of the world’s most dangerous migration corridors. The latest group, consisting of 173 asylum seekers, arrived...
Mogadishu (WDN) – A disturbing new video released by the crew of the hijacked tanker MT Honour 25 has laid bare the worsening humanitarian crisis aboard the vessel, where sailors have now spent nearly two months in captivity at the hands of Somali pirates. The emotional appeal has renewed international attention on a piracy threat...
(ERGO) – Aqbal Adawa Haji has been struggling to feed her nine children and relied in the central Somali city of Dusamareb, as displacement left her without any source of income. Now she’s collecting discarded metal from neighbourhoods across the town, earning $4 to $6 a day selling the scrap to local companies. It might not...
Kismayo (WDN) – Somalia’s elite DANAB Special Forces, backed by international partners, carried out a coordinated ground and air operation against Al-Shabaab positions in the Harboole area of Lower Jubba, dealing another blow to the militant group’s presence in southern Somalia. According to military sources, the operation was led by the 162nd Unit of the...
Abudwaq, Galgaduud(WDN) – A growing political confrontation in Galmudug turned violent Tuesday night when armed clashes erupted in Abudwaq between supporters of politician Libaan Shuluq and forces aligned with the Galmudug administration, exposing the dangerous consequences of increasingly militarized political competition in Somalia’s federal states. According to local sources, the fighting broke out after security...
Mogadishu (WDN) – Former President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has reportedly dismissed Colonel Adan Jeele, commander of the 23rd Military Police Brigade, in a move that is fueling fresh controversy over the government’s handling of Somalia’s deepening political crisis. According to emerging reports, Colonel Adan Jeele was removed from his position after allegedly refusing to participate...
(BBC)- The breakaway state of Somaliland has opened an embassy in Jerusalem, six months after Israel became the first country to recognise it as an independent nation. The opening of the diplomatic mission at a technology park in West Jerusalem came while Somaliland’s President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi was on an official visit to Israel. During...
Mogadishu (WDN) – After months of escalating political tensions, mounting constitutional disputes, and repeated warnings from Somali stakeholders, Somalia’s international partners have once again stepped into the country’s political arena. Yet for many observers, the question being asked in Mogadishu is not why they intervened but why it took them so long. Representatives of the...