The Navy continues its commitment to combat maritime piracy in defense of the merchant traffic vital to the economy of the Indian Ocean country. From today, 17 March, the Carabiniere ship is assigned to the European Union mission EUNAVFOR Somalia - Operation "Atalanta", to guard the area between the southern Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and [...]

Read More

An air strike near the Somali city of Afgoye killed four people. This was reported today by a relative of one of the victims. The attacks against the Islamic militants present in the Horn of Africa, often carried out by the United States, have helped to strengthen the central government of Somalia supported by the UN .. The relatives [...]

Read More

Silvia Romano hasn't been known since November 20, 2018, when she was kidnapped from the village of Chakama, 80 kilometers from Malindi, Kenya. More than a hundred days have passed since that moment, yet everything is silent. After a first wave of news and hypotheses on the identity of the kidnappers and the possible reasons that [...]

Read More

According to the state spokesman of Hirshabelle, Abdiweli Muhamed Abdi, the Somali National Army, supported by the troops of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom), have regained control of several areas to the news agency "Sonna" "Strategic" in the Middle Shebeli region, on the border with the Hiran region, snatching them from the jihadist militias of al [...]

Read More

Having signed an agreement in Dubai between Emirati Dubai Ports and the Somaliland Port Authority, the Ethiopian government has bought 19% of the shares in the port of Berbera. According to the newspaper "AddisStandard", according to the agreement DP World will maintain a 51% stake in the project, while the remaining shares will be purchased for 30% by [...]

Read More

As reported by the Nova agency, the German government has sanctioned the end of the European military training mission "Eutm Som", expiring at the end of March 2018, in Somalia, a country considered among the most dangerous in Africa. The mission is considered highly dangerous because the militias of the al Shabab terrorist group have repeatedly attacked the airport. The mission, […]

Read More

(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Many think that Isis was defeated in its state form after the battles, neighborhood by neighborhood in two key countries of the region. In Iraq and Syria, the campaign to overthrow the so-called caliphate project that Isis established in June 2014 has largely achieved its goal. After three [...]

Read More

According to a report drawn up by the UN on Somalia, a faction of the Islamic State (Isis) active in Somalia has greatly strengthened over the last year, thanks to the funds received from Syria and Iraq. The faction would be led by Sheikh Abdulqader Mumin, and was targeted last week in the first operation carried out [...]

Read More

The US Embassy in Somalia has invited all non-essential staff members to leave Mogadishu, claiming that they have received "specific threats" aimed at its employees. A State Department statement announced that “due to information regarding a specific threat against US personnel at Mogadishu International Airport, the US mission [...]

Read More

Following the attack on 14 October in Mogadishu, which caused 358 deaths, 228 wounded and 56 missing, it was decided, in the meeting held yesterday in Uganda between Somali President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni, that the Ugandan Special Corps and intelligence units will strengthen their operations in [...]

Read More

Hell in Mogadishu, street explosion and gunshots Gunshots were heard in the area where a truck bomb exploded today in Mogadishu killing 20 people and injuring 15 others. The military has set up several checkpoints, isolating the area. Witnesses say they saw bodies, shoes and [...]

Read More

Turkey today opened its largest overseas military training center in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. The military facility was inaugurated by Ankara's Chief of Staff, Hulusi Akar, and Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire, in a ceremony in the new center built by Turkey in Africa. Second […]

Read More