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Somalia Must Save Itself from Yasin, Al-Shabaab and Qatar

Qatari have an effect on and Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo’s over-reliance on Doha have reversed years of safety progress. by Abdullahi Mohamed Ali Somalis, each at home and abroad, have been confident when Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo was once elected Somalia’s president in February 2017. Diplomats and the improvement community shared this optimism, believing Farmajo […]

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Qatar’s financing Al-Shabaab through Fahad Yasin as a third party — Ex NISA Boss claims

Doha has for the first time been dragged into the murky Somalia politics, with a former top Mogadishu official accusing the Middle East kingdom of financing the Al-Shabaab militants, a declare which ought to define the relationship between the two nations. In the middle of the latest accusations is the National Intelligence Security Agency [NISA], […]

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Qatar, Yasin, Al-Shabaab Hold Somalia in Linked Triangular Vise Grip

Qatar’s ‘support’ for Somali Spy organisation raises storm over links with Al-Shabaab Qatar has but once more been sucked into Somalia’s inner politics, with mounting accusations from quite a few quarters over alleged guide to the Al-Shabaab militants and the undercover agent business enterprise NISA, which is stated to be supporting the militants with intelligence […]

Somalia reopens renovated national stadium in Mogadishu

Somalia’s national stadium in the capital Mogadishu officially reopened today years after it was abandoned due to insecurity. A game was also honoured today after extensive renovations since 2018 when government took control of the facility. It was adversely affected by the country’s civil war, at a point it was occupied by Al-Shabaab insurgents and […]

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SADC to help Mozambique fight off insurgents

Mozambique is top priority for Southern African leaders under the auspices of the SADC. In Harare on Wednesday, regional bloc leaders met to discuss the growing Islamist insurgency in northern Mozambique. At the day-long meeting leaders of Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique said they had also discussed the COVID-19 pandemic and the security situation in […]

Al-Shabaab attack in Mogadishu claims two lives

A Somali police officer says a suicide bomber has walked into a tea shop in Somalia’s capital and detonated, killing at least two people. Capt. Mohamed Hussein says the bomber, posing as a pedestrian, entered the shop and detonated his vest among the crowd. Wednesday’s blast in Mogadishu was the first since the country confirmed […]