Somali Guardian

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s Supreme Court has given the federal government until Thursday to present its defense in a case filed by opposition leader Sharif Sheikh Ahmed seeking to annul a controversial new constitution.

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s parliament speaker, Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur, on Sunday accused Kenya of harbouring terrorists, as Mogadishu appears angry with neighbouring countries following rebel advances in Southwest state.

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s federal government is furious with Ethiopia for refusing to intervene in the conflict in South West State, where Mogadishu lost five strategic towns in a week to the forces of former state leader Abdiasis Laftagaren.

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s police entered two Hormuud company premises in Mogadishu on Sunday, including its headquarters in Bakara Market and its main management headquarters on the road leading to the airport, with investigations under way u…

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has rejected calls for negotiations with opposition leaders over the country’s upcoming elections, insisting that his government’s plans will proceed as intended.

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s federal government has lost all major towns in Bay region except Baidoa to forces of former Southwest leader Abdiasis Laftagaren, in a speedy counter-offensive that has unexpectedly reversed the gains it made in an o…

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Forces loyal to Somalia’s former Southwest State president, Abdiasis Laftagaren, seized another strategic town in Bay region on Thursday, deepening the federal government’s territorial losses.

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia has agreed to buy JF-17 Thunder fighter jets from Pakistan, a Turkish defence outlet reported, but neither government has confirmed that a contract exists and no price, aircraft number or delivery date has been publish…

MOGADISHU – Somalia’s Defence Minister Ahmed Moalim Fiqi said on Tuesday that authorities had removed 260 armed men from opposition leaders’ homes in the capital Mogadishu, accusing them of threatening security.

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Former United States Ambassador to Somalia Larry André Jr. has called on the international community to intensify pressure on President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s government to halt conflict and civilian displacement in Southwest…

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s former President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on Sunday disputed an account by the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) that armed men under his command attacked its personnel in the capital.

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Opposition leader and former President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has warned that threats of force and military mobilization against political opponents risk pushing Somalia toward “chaos or authoritarianism.”

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Forces loyal to Abdiasis Laftagaren, Somalia’s former Southwest leader, captured the strategic town of Qansah-dhere in the Bay region on Thursday without a gunfight, local media reported.

ADDIS ABABA (Somaliguardian) – Eritrean soldiers drove through the northern Ethiopian town of Adigrat on Wednesday, two witnesses told Reuters, days after the Horn of Africa neighbours severed diplomatic ties, raising fears of outright conflict.

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s federal government is closely monitoring flights from Ebola-affected African countries and has deployed health staff at Mogadishu airport, after neighbouring Kenya reported its first case of the virus on Tuesday, Caa…

CAIRO (Somaliguardian) – The leaders of Egypt, Somalia, Eritrea and Sudan have issued a consequential joint declaration on Somalia’s sovereignty, Sudan’s unity, Red Sea governance and Nile water security, creating a new framework for regional coordination…

SANAA (Somaliguardian) – Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces have secured effective control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Yemen’s Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani told Reuters on Monday, though fighting continues with Houthi forces in the area.

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Al-Shabaab said on Saturday it had signed an agreement with the Hawadle clan to end a four-year conflict in central Somalia’s Hiran region.

ADDIS ABABA (Somaliguardian) – Ethiopian government forces and allied militias have regained control of the capital of Tigray, three sources told Reuters on Sunday, dealing a major setback to the ‌opposition alliance that rules the northern region.

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia will not accept Israeli presence in the country “under any circumstances” and will resist any attempts to be pulled into the Middle East’s crises, its President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud tells Al Jazeera.

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – At least 216 civilians in Somalia were recorded as killed or injured by U.S. air operations between 2007 and May 2025, according to an investigation supported by Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ).

ADDIS ABABA (Somaliguardian) – A militia group allied to Ethiopia’s federal government said they had recaptured the main airport in the capital of ‌the northern Tigray region, an opposition stronghold.

ADDIS ABABA (Somaliguardian) – Explosions were heard overnight in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, three diplomatic sources said on Thursday, adding to anxiety about the possible spread of renewed conflict in the country’s north.

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Ethiopia plans to withdraw more than 3,000 troops from Somalia as fighting escalates in its north, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Turkey has poured huge sums into making Somalia one of its main foreign outposts but is being sucked into the country’s violent political battles, risking the goodwill it has built.

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s diplomatic circuit through Ethiopia and Djibouti, followed by a planned visit to Egypt, is unfolding against a volatile backdrop in which Somalia’s domestic political disputes are incre…

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Pirates killed five crew members aboard the hijacked oil tanker MT Honour 25 before Puntland security forces rescued the vessel off Somalia’s coast, the semi-autonomous state’s information ministry said on Tuesday.

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Former South West State President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen has accused Somalia’s federal government and Türkiye of carrying out airstrikes on Baidoa during fierce fighting between his forces and troops loyal to the…

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Puntland Maritime Police Force (PMPF) troops have freed the Palau-flagged tanker MT Honour from Somali pirates in the Bandarbayla district, days after releasing the SIBU 1 tanker, in a fast-moving push against piracy off the r…

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre has denied his government pays Al-Shabaab to stop attacks on Mogadishu, saying it has never held talks with the group.

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s parliament speaker, Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur Jama, plans to cut the salaries of about 50 lawmakers for not regularly attending assembly meetings, Somali Stream reported on Sunday.

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Nineteen pirates escaped from a convoy of vehicles transporting them to Puntland’s regional capital on Saturday, a day after being captured in a raid to free the SIBU tanker off Somalia’s northeastern coast, Caasimada Online n…

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Puntland’s maritime police force freed the oil tanker MT Sibu 1 on Friday, ending a five-week hijacking off Somalia’s northern coast after a 48-hour operation that left all 20 crew members unharmed, regional officials said.

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro has suggested renaming Berbera International Airport after U.S.