At Somalia’s first-ever security conference, hosted by the country’s Federal President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed “Farmaajo” in the capital, Mogadishu, participants agreed to speed up security sector reform and develop a plan to transfer primary responsibility for the country’s security from the United Nations-backed African Union Mission in Somalia Amisom to its own security forces. Security is

Mogadishu, 4 December 2017 – A high-level meeting on security opens in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu to discuss a comprehensive approach to security in the country, as a follow-up to the London Conference on Somalia, held in May this year. The African Union Mission in Somalia, Amisom, is co-convening the conference with the Federal Government of

The newly appointed defence minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia Mr Mohamed Mursal Sheikh Abdirahman,has today on Saturday takes office in a highly organized ceremony held at the ministry of defence. The official event was attended by many government officials, members from the defense committee of the Federal Parliament, Cabinet ministers, top Army officials,

Mogadishu Ministry of Internal Security Affairs of Federal Republic of Somalia updated new issues of improving security of the capital Mogadishu in order to prevent insecurity matters, Mr Mohamed Abukar Islow Du’ale, Minister for Internal security of Somali government declared that the government will not accept people to have illegal weapons in Mogadishu and the

Three people are confirmed dead and Ten others including Puntland State forces injured after a bomb attack in the port and commercial town on Bosaso in Bari region north Somalia on Thursday morning, Puntland Security forces reached the crime scene immediately after the attack and started investigation to pursue the perpetrators according to official .the

Marine Contracting has started construction of a United Arab Emirates naval base in a semi-autonomous region of northern Somalia. The closely held Sharjah-based engineering group began work on the project after being awarded the $90 million contract in April, Managing Director Abdulla Darwish said in an interview in Dubai. The facility, being built near the

US forces conducted an air strike against the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab group in Somalia on Tuesday, killing more than 100 jihadists, military officials said. In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, US forces conducted an air strike in Somalia against an al-Shabaab camp on Tuesday, November 21 at approximately 10:30 am local Somalia time ,

Members of the Somali Federal Parliament on Saturday had a very sensitive debate about the case of Abdikarim Sheikh Muse, aka Qalbi-dhagah who was transferred to Ethiopian Government by Somali Government early on September Parliament’s Commission for the investigation read their report before the lawmakers and discussed their results and recommendations and proper decisions to

Two people were killed and several others sustained injuries after demonstrations over alleged poll irregularities turned chaotic in Burao and Hargeisa towns of the breakaway Somaliland on Thursday night, officials and witnesses confirmed.Violent protests erupted in different parts of Marodi-Jeh and Togdher regions following the announcement by the main opposition party to cut off cooperation

Waddani Party supporters on Thursday took to the streets of various opposition strongholds to protest what they claim to be election irregularities. In Burco police had to use live bullets to disperse protestors who had lit bonfires and closed main roads.earlier a spokesman for Somaliland’s Waddani opposition party claimed “fake” ballot papers were used in