Today's headlines from Mogadishu, Somalia, published by Somali Guardian. Read the latest local news and open any story on the publisher's own site.
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – The long-anticipated election talks called by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud failed to open on Saturday as scheduled, after Somalia’s principal…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – In language of unusual severity, United Nations independent experts have condemned President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s abrupt dismissal of Somalia’s…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Turkey has firmly denied reports that it plans to send 15,000 troops to Somalia, saying the claims do not reflect the truth. The Ministry of National…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – The United States has confirmed that its troops have withdrawn from Baledogle Military Airfield in southern Somalia, describing the move as a purely…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Senator Ted Cruz has said he will condition his support for the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominee for US ambassador to Somalia on the…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s military is facing a potentially serious internal crisis after waves of soldiers from the Hawadle clan abandoned their positions in the…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Eight people – two police reservists, five construction workers and a driver – were killed in northeast Kenya on Tuesday in an attack by suspected…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somali police personnel enforcing forced evictions and demolitions in Mogadishu’s Daynile district engaged in a fierce firefight with armed residents…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – A senior commander of Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) paramilitary Duufaan unit has defected to Al-Shabaab, in an escalating…
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s opposition Future Council on Sunday condemned what it described as an aggressive takeover of the Supreme Court by the country’s…