Somali Guardian

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s federal security forces killed at least five people and wounded more than ten others in Mogadishu on Sunday, local media reported, during a violent operation to forcibly clear the Tookiyo settlement in the capital’s Yaqshid district – one of the bloodiest eruptions yet in a widening campaign of slum demolitions that has ...

MOADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s State Minister of Defense, Omar Ali Abdi, on Saturday broke the federal government’s silence over alleged Turkish drone strike that killed at least four people off the coast of Garmaal, in Puntland’s Nugaal region, defending the operation while questioning Puntland’s account that the

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – A single sentence of gratitude, posted by Somalia’s newly elected parliament speaker to an official of a government Somalia does not recognize, has forced Mogadishu into a four-day diplomatic scramble – and handed critics fresh ammunition against the federal government’s own case for territorial sovereignty.

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MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Puntland authorities have strongly condemned an airstrike near Garmaal on Somalia’s northeastern coast that killed four people and wounded two others, saying the victims were c...

MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s former Foreign Affairs Minister, Abdisaed Muse Ali, accused Turkey on Thursday of carrying out a “massacre” of Somali nationals on Puntland’s coast, escalating a row over a drone strike that