4+ hour, 27+ min ago   (330+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – A video circulating on social media this week shows Somalis in the country’s Southwest state setting fire to the Turkish flag while holding aloft the state’s own banner, a striking act of defiance that captures a rapid souring…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (910+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Gen. Jimale Takar, commander of the Somali National Army’s 54th Division, has rejoined Puntland’s security forces and agreed that Danab units under his command at the Ligle military camp in Garowe will no longer report to Somalia’s federal government…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (350+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – President Yoweri Museveni has said Uganda’s nearly two-decade military deployment in Somalia was driven primarily by solidarity with Ethiopia – whose forces invaded Somalia in 2006 to remove the Islamic Courts Union from power in Mogadishu – rather than by any…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (359+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Turkey will move to arrest and exile Somalia’s opposition leaders, including former President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, should they persist in their defiance of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s disputed term extension, a veteran Somali diplomat has warned. Hussein Ali…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (308+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – More than a dozen Somali army personnel were killed on Monday when a military truck carrying troops was struck by an improvised explosive device (IED) near the town of Mubarak in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region, according to reports....

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (413+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre on Tuesday launched a blistering attack on the country’s international partners, accusing them of facing a “cultural problem” and of continuing to treat Somalia as though it were still in the transitional…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (278+ words) MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s parliament handed its most powerful gavel to a man widely regarded as Ankara’s foremost asset in Mogadishu on Monday, electing Minister of Ports and Maritime Transport Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur as speaker of the House of the People…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (750+ words) Somali Guardian MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Ethiopian troops serving under the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) have withdrawn from Burhakaba, a strategic Bay region town ringed on every side by Al-Shabaab, handing security responsibility to the Somali National…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (546+ words) Somali Guardian MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – The United Nations Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS) has opened a public tender for licensed auctioneers to liquidate a sprawling inventory of mission property, from vehicles and heavy construction machinery to modular housing units and medical…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (279+ words) In an analysis published this week, the pan-African policy think tank Amani Africa concludes the Kampala summit closed without financing secured, without a political deal with Somalia, and without a plan for the worst case — leaving AUSSOM's fate to individual…...