File Photo/Somali Times The meeting between the heads of the federal and state governments in addressing agenda 2021 election for on hold, according to Somali officials told Somali Times. Today’s meeting, which was the second day of the conference, ended without any agreement on all contentious issues on the agenda. Somali leaders are to be

File Photo/Somali Times Somali officials told Somali Times the attacker was in a suicide jacket and blew up at the cafe located near a police station in the Shangani district at about 7pm local time. ”A suicide bomber detonated himself at a cafe shop frequented by the youth,” a police spokesman told Somali Times. ”Six

File Photo/Somali Times At least 76 militants were killed on Saturday when a fierce fighting broke out in southwestern Somalia between terrorist group al-Shabaab and the military, an official said. According to Anadolu Agency’s report. The military also captured 10 others after the al-Shabab launched a pre-dawn attack on Somali National Army bases in Bariire

Photo/Somali Times/Dead bodies of Al-Shabaab terrorists. The Somali National Army (SNA) has thwarted an ambush by Al-Shabaab militants in the Barire and Awdhegle areas of the Lower Shabelle region this morning. The Al-Shabaab terrorist group suffered heavy casualties in the attack and fled the battlefield with many dead and wounded militiamen. Officials from the Lower

File Photo/Somali Times The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo opened a preliminary meeting of the National Consultative Assembly on the Completion of Electoral Issues. The conference, which opened today, was attended by the Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia Mohamed Hussein Roble and the Heads of State and

Photo/Somali Times Somali officials from the Somali Special Forces in Gorgor told Somali Times that hundreds of troops will be deployed in parts of the Mudug region in the coming days. The troops and their vehicles are scheduled to be deployed near Goldogob in the Mudug region. The areas where the troops will be deployed

Photo/Somali Times Somali police forces this morning closed some of the main roads in Mogadishu, disrupting the movement of public and private vehicles. Troops in armored vehicles closed several roads connecting the Wadnaha & Maka Al-Mukarama roads which are important for public use. Reports say that the forces are blocking the roads with all kinds

Photo/Somali Times Puntland State Minister of Finance Hassan Shire Abgal said a constitutional provision gives Puntland the right to secede from Somalia, in the absence of a federal Somali government. Speaking at a meeting on the outskirts of Garowe, Puntland Finance Minister Abgaal said Puntland would never accept anything less than a federal government of

Former Jubaland security minister Abdirashid Janan, who reached a preliminary agreement with the federal government a day ago, landed at the Mogadishu airport this afternoon. The Wanted man for human rights violations in Gedo region was accompanied by the head of the National Security Agency Fahad Yasin and ministers from the Somali Federal Government who

At least three civilians were killed and five wounded when a barrage of mortars targeted the UN and African Union peacekeeping mission forces (AMISOM) headquarters in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday, a police official said. Abdi Yusuf, a police officer in Mogadishu’s Dharkinley neighborhood, told Anadolu Agency over the phone that several mortar shells