By: Ali Haji Warsame During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic between mid-January and March 2020, the Australian government ...

The Somali government last week relaunched a national identification and voter registration programme that, if completed, would mark a step towards a return to universal suffrage.

Though each crisis is driven by different, home-grown causes, “the question of who controls the Red Sea and who will ...

The UN Security Council is due to vote in mid-May on the “hybrid” funding model based on Resolution 2719, which allows ...

The UAE has deployed an ELM-2084 radar with a 480 km range at a naval base in the Puntland region of Somalia, likely for counterintelligence operations by Israeli special forces against Houthi-led ...

Somalia on Tuesday launched voter registration in Mogadishu for the first time in over 50 years, a step towards universal suffrage ahead of presidential elections scheduled for 2026.

The United States military conducted an airstrike on April 11 in the semi-autonomous Puntland region of Somalia, targeting the Islamic State in Somalia (ISIS) and killing one militant, according to a ...

In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted an airstrike against ISIS-Somalia on ...

Somalia’s electoral officials have announced a plan to hold long-awaited local council elections in Mogadishu. They said ...

On Feb. 24, 2025, members of the Puntland Defense Forces posed next to a sign in Arabic that proclaimed the mountain town of Sheebaab as a "province" of the Islamic State group. The town, located in ...

The town, located in Somalia’s autonomous northeastern region of Puntland, was one of numerous areas that soldiers from the regional government have taken back during Operation Hilaac ...