Somali authorities are reported to have arrested a spy network working for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Only Twitter users report the news, quoting a local intelligence source. Earlier this year, Somali Foreign Minister Ahmed Issa Awad said that his country’s relations with the UAE are not at the level they should. In an interview

Photo (AP) President Trump has declared that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is “100%” defeated. It seems unlikely he will ever say the same about Somalia’s al-Shabab. Words such as “eradicate” and “eliminate” — staples of the lexicon used by the Obama and Trump administrations when laying out their ultimate goal in the

The Somali Police Force is redefining its policing priorities as it strengthens its law enforcement capabilities. At least 25-top police commanders have been trained on Human Rights observance and Community Policing, to better manage crime and improve their engagement with populations under their areas of jurisdiction. “Our duties include protecting lives and property. It entails

Photo The Gateway Pundit by Cristina Laila The DOJ and US Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Virginia said in a press release Monday that a former FBI linguist was arrested and indicted on obstruction charges in a terrorism investigation. “According to court documents, Abdirizak Jaji Raghe Wehelie, aka Haji Raghe, 66, of Burke,

Photo The Times of Israel By Abdirahman M. Dirye Somaliland’s past leadership has been reluctant to send official delegation to Tel Aviv lest Arabs may shed crocodile tears on ‘the breakup’ of so-called Som-Arab brotherhood and destabilize Somaliland using religion as a weapon. But several Arab league member states either maintain direct cooperation with Israel

The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Mohamed Abdullah Mohamed, today arrived in Garowe town welcomed by Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire, the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, today. Governor Said Abdullahi Deni and other officials. warm welcome. Galmudug governor Ahmed Duale has also arrived in Garowe today and is currently

The National Union of Somali Journalists and its affiliate regional member organizations organized hundreds of Somali journalists to mark the World Press Freedom Day celebrated globally every 3th of May. Hundreds of journalists in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu and the federal member states are participating in the celebrations on May 3,2019. Every year, 3 May is

Bosaso, Regional administrations has opposed the laws passed by the cabinet of the federal government in Somalia after a meeting in Mogadishu. Clearly contravening the rules, the Galmudug administration and the Puntland administration have said that there is no consultation with the federal government of Somalia. It was yesterday when an extraordinary meeting held in

A woman arrives to vote at a Polling Station in Hale, Britain, May 2, 2019. REUTERS/Phil Noble British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party were both punished by English voters in a local election for the deadlock over Brexit, partial results showed on Friday. With more than 40 percent of English

Successes and failures in Kenya’s eight-year-long military campaign against al-Shabaab are examined in a recently published history of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom). Kenya’s 4000-plus troops have contributed to Amisom’s rollback of territory controlled by Shabaab, author Paul Williams finds in “Fighting for Peace in Somalia: A History and Analysis of Amisom, 2007-2017.”