Baidoa –Governors, Election Commission Governors Election Commission announced that Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagher won the election of the governor of South West after the first round with of 101 votes, while the second candidate to the post Adan Mohamed Nur Saransoor received 22 votes. Hussein Osman Hussein, Adnan Mohamed Nur Saransoor, Ibrahim Moalin Nunow, Sayid

Garowe-Dictator Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, the incumbent governor of Puntland State of Somalia, announced Tuesday that he would run again for governor election. Mr Abdiweli Gaas make the announcement at a ceremony held in Garowe, where more dignitaries including traditional leaders and his government officials were attending. At the ceremony, he delivered a long speech he

Mogadishu-The Prime Minister of Somalia . Hassan Ali Khaire. The meeting was held last night with the Speaker of the House of the People of the Federal Republic of Somalia Mohamed Mursal Sheikh Abdirahman and the Prime Minister of Somalia . Hassan Ali Khaire. The sensitivity of the meeting was said to have ended with

The U.S. military said on Monday it had killed 62 militants in six air strikes on Saturday and Sunday in the vicinity of Gandarsh in Somalia’s south-central Banadir province. The military’s Africa Command (Africom) said four strikes were carried out on Saturday, killing 34 militants, and two more on Sunday, which killed 28. “Africa Command

Mogadishu–Corrupt Speaker of the House of the People of the Somali Federal Parliament, . Mohamed Mursal Sh. Abdirahman on Saturday called for the release of Mukhtar Robow and postpone the Southwest State governor election ahead, Somali Times investigated Corrupt Somali Speaker, Mr Mohamed Mursal Abdirahman been paid through former Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali

The U.S. military says it has killed eight members of the al-Shabab extremist group with an airstrike south of Somalia’s capital. The U.S. Africa Command statement says the airstrike occurred on Saturday near Gandarshe, a coastal community. The statement says no civilians were involved. The U.S. military has carried out at least 40 airstrikes this

Mukhtar Robow was added to the U.S. list of designated terrorists in 2008 and a multi-million-dollar bounty was put on his head.AP file NAIROBI, Kenya — Somalia saw a third day of protests on Saturday over the arrest of the former No. 2 leader of the al-Shabab extremist group, who has been a leading candidate

At least 11 people were killed in Somalia’s city of Baidoa in clashes between security forces and supporters of a former al Shabaab leader who is seeking election as a regional president, a military officer and an elder said on Friday. Authorities arrested Mukhtar Robow on Thursday, accusing him of bringing Islamist militants and weapons

Mogadishu-The Federal Ministry of Internal Security refers to its previously released press statements issued on October 4th 2018 and December 12 2018, which had asserted that the citizen, Mukhtar Robow (Abu Mansur) was yet to meet requirements of agreements with the government in order to remove all the restrictions on him. The requirements included: That

The former number two leader of Somalia’s al-Shabab extremists, who is now a candidate in a regional election, was arrested Thursday prompting violent protests in which four people were killed, officials said. Mukhtar Robow, previously al-Shabab’s spokesman, was arrested by Ethiopian troops that are part of the African Union forces supporting the Somali government, Nur