Photo/Somali Times Former Al-Shabaab commander Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, who is also the chairman of the Union of Opposition Candidates, addressed the media in Mogadishu today, strongly criticizing President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo. The former Al-Shabaab commander has announced that there will be demonstrations about civil war instead talking about the maritime case. ”Kenya and Somalia are

File Photo/Somali Times Unidentified gunmen shot dead three women, two of whom were pregnant, in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Sunday, police said. In a statement, the law enforcers said the incident took place in the volatile Daynile district, and that further investigations are underway. According to Anadolu Agency. No group immediately claimed responsibility,

Photo/Somali Times A suicide bomber has killed at least three people in Somalia’s Mogadishu, according to witnesses. Somali police spokesman Sadiq Adan Ali said in a statement that the blast killed not only the suicide bomber, but also injured seven other civilians, who were passing by. He also added that there was property damage of

File Photo/Somali Times The outgoing President of the Federal Republic of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo convened a meeting on Election Heads of State and the Benadir region. ”The conference, which will open on February 15 in Garowe, Somalia, is a culmination of the implementation of the agreement reached by the National Consultative Council in Mogadishu

Photo/Somali Times The president of Somalia’s federal government Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has again convened a meeting of Benadir and regional leaders in Garowe. The meeting is said to be aimed at implementing the agreement reached by the National Consultative Council in Mogadishu on 17 September 2020. The meeting, called by the president, comes days after

Photo/Somali Times Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble plans to present a surprise plan to parliament tomorrow with a new type of election and a one year extension for President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo according to sources inside Villa Somalia which told Somali Times. Tomorrow’s parliamentary agenda include an extension, but lawmakers who spoke to Somali

The Somali government has for the first time responded to accusations from the opposition and the end of the presidential term and who should legally replace the outgoing government institutions. Somali government spokesman Mohamed Ibrahim Maalimu said the statements of opposition politicians were never legitimate. Maalimu said the Somali parliament already passed a resolution stating

Photo/Somali Times There is political uncertainty facing the country today, February 8, ended the term of Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, who was elected to office in 2017. But still President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo is in charge until the 2021 election that all Somali government and federal, state leaders agree according to the Somali constitution.

File Photo/Somali Times Reports from the Dhusamareb district in Galmudug said that a landmine blast killed the district’s security commander Abdirashid Abdi Nur Shiqdon after his vehicle was targeted. Reports say that the commander and his bodyguards were targeted as they passed near the Eldhere village, 30 km from Dhusamareb. The blast also killed at

Photo/Somali Times Somalia is likely to miss a February 8 deadline to choose a new president after three days of negotiations between the central government and federal states which collapsed on Friday without resolution over the disputed electoral process. President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo and Somalia’s five regional leaders reached an agreement on September 17 that