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he Community Policing Unit of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) on Sunday met with partners to review strategies and support to the Somalia Police Force (SPF) in the fight against crime. The meeting was attended by SPF Director for Community Policing, Col. Abdullahi Omar, the Deputy Police Commissioner for the United Nations...

Having been observing Somali politics for a number of years, the defeat of the Somaliland forced in Goojcade was inevitable. This is the case because the war lacked political legitimacy, was injustice and doomed to fail all the time. The uprising in Lascaanod was born out of the conditions and violence/insecurity the local residents felt...

Defence CS Aden Duale has accused some residents of Lamu of collaborating with al Shabaab in their attacks. Touring the county on Saturday, he said it is suspicious that terrorists can conduct raids and killings in villages and leave without a trace. advertisements“It’s surprising for you to fail to spot al Shabaab moving all the...

our migrants and refugees have died and 18 rescued after the boat they were travelling on capsized off the Greek island of Lesbos, according to Greek authorities. A patrol picked up 22 people in the Aegean Sea, but four of them were dead, the Hellenic Coast Guard said on Monday in a brief statement. advertisementsThe...

Nadia Mohamed, a state DEI specialist and current mayor pro tem of the St. Louis Park City Council, filed officially to run for mayor during the filing period that closed last week. She will become the first Somali mayor in Minnesota if she beats retired banker Dale Anderson in November. Anderson is the only other...

RIYADH: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) launched projects in Yemen, Somalia and Lebanon. In Mogadishu, Somalia, the kidney dialysis center at Banadir Hospital continued providing its medical services with the support of KSrelief. advertisementsThe center catered to 83 patients in July and scheduled 190 dialysis sessions. In Lebanon, KSrelief implemented the...

Somali National Army (SNA) said Friday its forces killed 27 al-Shabab militants in a military operation conducted near Awdheegle district in southern Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region. The troops who were backed by international partners also destroyed the militants’ hideouts, resulting in the elimination of the militants who had gathered at a local farm to carry...

WASHINGTON — The Somali government said its army captured a major al-Shabab base in central Somalia, marking a significant victory in its military offensive against the al-Qaida linked group. On Friday, Somalia’s army, alongside security forces from the country’s central Galmudug region, entered the historic district of Elbur, about 400 kilometers (249 miles) north of...

Ubtan Dahir Mohamed, 48, has been driven to begging to scrape together a meal a day for her eight children and says she is facing the most difficult point in her life. Separated from her husband and without any income, Ubtan is living in an IDP camp in Godinlabe, south of Adado in central Somalia’s...

Somali community leaders in Portland said a judge’s decision this week to vacate a manslaughter conviction in a high profile case is reopening old wounds. Mark Cardilli Jr., who is white, had been serving 7.5 years in prison for the 2019 killing of Isahak Muse, a young Somali-American man. Cardilli could now receive a new...