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Somalia president pardons six graft convicts: document
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (225+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) " Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has pardoned six government officials sentenced in absentia for corruption, according to a presidential directive seen by Somaliguardian, a move critics say threatens to undermine the country's fragile judicial credibility. The decree, issued…...
Somalia president decrees close ally as sole candidate for Galmudug leadership
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (295+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) " Somalia's federal government has selected a single candidate to run on behalf of the ruling Justice and Solidarity Party (JSP) for the presidency of the central Galmudug state, signaling a dramatic escalation of political maneuvering ahead of a…...
Puntland disowns Somalia's president, says legitimate term ended
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (325+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) " Somalia has slipped into a deepening constitutional crisis after authorities in the semi-autonomous northeastern region of Puntland announced they no longer recognize Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as the nation's president, declaring his legitimate mandate has expired. The regional fallout…...
Somaliland Jerusalem embassy: Mogadishu condemns Israel pact
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (581+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) " A high-stakes geopolitical chess match is unfolding across the volatile waters of the Red Sea and the arid expanses of the Horn of Africa. For a region already grappling with maritime insecurity and shifting global alliances, the Hargeisa-Jerusalem…...
Mogadishu to Silicon Valley: How Somalia weaponized an Italian proxy to silence independent media on Meta platforms
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (536+ words) The new censorship: Inside the sophisticated bot and copyright war silencing Somalia's press MOGADISHU " A high-stakes digital proxy war has broken out in the Horn of Africa, as independent media houses and high-profile political analysts in Somalia launch formal appeals…...
Somalia election crisis: UN sounds alarm as government-opposition talks fail
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (307+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) " Amid a mounting political impasse that threatens to unravel Somalia's precarious federal architecture, the United Nations issued a calculated, if cautious, overture of support for newly initiated talks between the country's central government and a formidable vanguard of…...
International partners draw red line on Somalia's one-sided path to elections
6+ day, 13+ hour ago (358+ words) Somali Guardian MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) " Diplomats representing Somalia's international partners met opposition figures from the Future Council inside Mogadishu's heavily fortified Halane base on Monday in a renewed attempt to rescue stalled negotiations and steer Somalia's feuding political actors back toward…...
Somalia ex-spy chief says talks only way to end Al-Shabaab insurgency
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (350+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) " Former Somali intelligence chief Fahad Yasin said Somalia's decades-long conflict with Al-Shabaab cannot be resolved through military force alone, arguing that negotiations remain the only realistic path toward ending the insurgency. In a wide-ranging interview released Friday by…...
EU pushes dialogue after Somalia talks collapse
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (296+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) " Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud met European Union Ambassador to Somalia Francesca Di Mauro at the Villa Somalia presidential palace in Mogadishu on Sunday, as international concern grows over the country's deepening political crisis following the collapse of…...
How Trump's crypto venture and Iran's top exchange tapped into the same industry networks
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (1578+ words) When customers of Iran's largest crypto exchange needed to move billions of dollars, networks created by two of the industry's biggest players served as conduits. And from the early stages of President Donald Trump's flagship digital currency venture, the same…...