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The Somali Digest· 28 maalmood ka horPuntland Surrounds a Federal Force in Galkayo and Calls It Law Enforcement
GALKAYO, SOMALIA – Puntland troops have surrounded a camp in Galkayo held by Puntland Security Force personnel who draw their orders from Mogadishu. The encirclement follows the fighting near Laag on…
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The Somali Digest· 12 maalmood ka horPuntland Moves and the Ligle Camp Changes Sides Overnight
Garowe, SOMALIA – The last organised body of federally registered troops inside Puntland’s own capital came back under Garowe’s command overnight, when General Jimale Jama Takar accepted terms for…
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The Somali Digest· 26 maalmood ka horSomalia Joins a Red Sea Coalition It Cannot Help Defend
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somalia put its name to a Saudi-engineered maritime alliance in Riyadh on Thursday. It joined thirteen other states in a joint declaration backing a Red Sea coalition built to…
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The Somali Digest· 26 maalmood ka horThe Kampala Communique Hassan Sheikh Edited Before It Was Signed
KAMPALA, UGANDA – The draft Kampala communique was read aloud to the heads of state on Friday, and Hassan Sheikh Mohamud stopped it. He asked for Somalia’s internal political matters to be taken out of the text.
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The Somali Digest· 4 maalmood ka horPuntland Demands an Account From the Warships Off Its Coast
GAROWE, SOMALIA– Puntland has become the first Somali authority to formally demand that foreign governments account for military strikes carried out on its own territory, after its security ministry…
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The Somali Digest· 9 maalmood ka horTwo Presidents in Galkayo and a City Cut in Half
Galkayo, SOMALIA – President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud reached south Galkayo by road on Monday, three days after Galmudug President Ahmed Abdi Karie Qoor Qoor stood beside him in Dhusamareb and praised…
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The Somali Digest· 20 maalmood ka horChinese Arms Sent to the Somali Police Force Surface in Galkayo
Galkayo, SOMALIA – Weapons and equipment donated by China to the Somali Police Force were among the matériel Puntland forces carried out of a federal-aligned base on the eastern edge of Galkayo on 5…
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The Somali Digest· 20 maalmood ka horThe Puntland Council of Ministers Writes Its Gains Into Law
Garowe, SOMALIA – The Puntland Council of Ministers met on Thursday under President Said Abdullahi Deni and his deputy, and issued the administrative half of a confrontation that has been fought…
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The Somali Digest· 21 maalmood ka horPSF Bosaso Camp Changes Hands Without a Shot Fired
BOSASO, SOMALIA – The Puntland Defence Forces took over the PSF headquarters in Bosaso on Thursday morning without a shot fired, ending more than two decades of the compound’s occupation by a force…
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The Somali Digest· 21 maalmood ka horPresident Deni Turns the Galkayo Operation Into a Message for Mogadishu
GAROWE, SOMALIA – Hours after his forces took the PSF camp outside Galkayo, President Said Abdullahi Deni went on television to claim the victory and name its target. The Galkayo operation, he said,…
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The Somali Digest· 3 saac ka horPresident Deni Spends a Fortnight Governing Eastern Mudug
GAROWE, SOMALIA – President Said Abdullahi Deni has spent the better part of a fortnight on the road in eastern Mudug, moving by vehicle from Galkayo through Balibusle and Seemade to Towfiiq district…
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The Somali Digest· 5 saac ka horThe NIEBC Accepts the Ruling That Voided Its Vote and Sets No Date
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somalia’s electoral commission said on Wednesday that it accepts the Supreme Court judgment voiding the Galmudug elections it ran on 30 July, invoking the supremacy of law and…
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The Somali Digest· 1 maalin ka horMogadishu Says It Knew About the MV Lutuf Strikes and Names Nobody
GAROWE, SOMALIA – Somalia’s state minister for defence has told reporters in Mogadishu that the federal government knew in advance of the air strikes killing coastal men in Puntland’s Nugaal region,…
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The Somali Digest· 1 maalin ka horSheikh Sharif Says the Army That Fled Al-Shabaab Is Fearless in Yaqshiid
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Former President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has accused the national army and the Presidential Guard of taking a direct hand in the demolition of homes across Mogadishu, and has…
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The Somali Digest· 1 maalin ka horAUSSOM Loses Its Support Structure Before Anyone Funds the Exit
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Ten civilian staff of the joint African Union and United Nations information team in Mogadishu have been told their contracts end on 10 September, the first terminations in a…
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The Somali Digest· 2 maalmood ka horSheikh Sharif Answers the Tookiyo Demolitions With a Call for Unity
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed condemned the demolition of the Tookiyo neighbourhood in a written statement on Sunday, saying the national army had been built to protect the dignity…
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The Somali Digest· 2 maalmood ka horGalmudug Loses the Election Villa Somalia Already Won
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somalia’s Federal Supreme Court annulled the Galmudug election results on Monday, finding that the 30 July vote was conducted outside the constitution and the electoral law, and…
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The Somali Digest· 3 maalmood ka horMarka Lowers the Southwest Flag and Raises Its Own
MARKA, SOMALIA – Armed men supporting the administration that calls itself Koonfur Bari entered Marka on Sunday and raised their flag over the district administration building, the district police…
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The Somali Digest· 4 maalmood ka horAden Madobe Puts His Predecessor’s Forces in the Al-Shabaab Column
BAIDOA, SOMALIA – Aden Madobe returned to Baidoa on Saturday after a working trip to Mogadishu and told the reception waiting for him at Shaati Gaduud Airport that his administration would target the…
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The Somali Digest· 4 maalmood ka horPuntland Demands an Account From the Warships Off Its Coast
GAROWE, SOMALIA– Puntland has become the first Somali authority to formally demand that foreign governments account for military strikes carried out on its own territory, after its security ministry…
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The Somali Digest· 5 maalmood ka horGarmaal Buries Fishermen the First Reports Called Pirates
GARMAAL, SOMALIA– A drone strike that Puntland security sources first described as a clean hit on fleeing pirates has come apart within forty-eight hours into a dispute over who actually died near…
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The Somali Digest· 7 maalmood ka horMogadishu Counts Laftagareen’s Dead as Al-Shabaab
BAIDOA, SOMALIA – The federal government has told the country that the men killed in Monday’s battle for Baidoa were al-Shabaab, and the officials who ran this city until March say the photographs…
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The Somali Digest· 8 maalmood ka horThe Biyomaal Seize the Equipment Measuring Their Land
MARKA, SOMALIA – Biyomaal fighters in the KM50 area of Lower Shabelle detained a survey team last month and put its vehicle, its generators and its land measuring equipment on public display, the…
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The Somali Digest· 8 maalmood ka horNo Government Claims the Air Strike on the Nugaal Coast
EYL, SOMALIA – Four men died on Tuesday afternoon when a drone destroyed the small boat carrying them near Garmaal on the Nugaal coast, a day after eight armed men boarded the Cameroon flagged cargo…
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The Somali Digest· 8 maalmood ka horThe Presidential Visit That Shrank to Baraxleey
Galkayo, SOMALIA – President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s Monday visit to Galkayo reached one neighbourhood of the city, the southeastern quarter of Baraxleey, which covers about 18 percent of its area.…
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The Somali Digest· 9 maalmood ka horBaidoa Wakes to a War Mogadishu Calls Terrorism
Baidoa, SOMALIA – Fighters loyal to former Southwest State President Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen battled federal troops inside Baidoa for several hours before dawn on Monday, in the fiercest…
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The Somali Digest· 9 maalmood ka horTwo Presidents in Galkayo and a City Cut in Half
Galkayo, SOMALIA – President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud reached south Galkayo by road on Monday, three days after Galmudug President Ahmed Abdi Karie Qoor Qoor stood beside him in Dhusamareb and praised…
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The Somali Digest· 9 maalmood ka horThe Somali National Army Graduates Its Largest Class Since 1991
Xananbuure, SOMALIA – Roughly 3,000 soldiers passed out on Sunday at the Xananbuure training camp in Galgadud, the largest class the Somali National Army has graduated on Somali soil since the state…
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The Somali Digest· 10 maalmood ka horThe Turkish Flag Burns in Southwest State
Baidoa, SOMALIA – A video circulating in recent days shows residents of Southwest State burning the Turkish flag while raising the state’s own banner, the sharpest public rejection yet of the foreign…
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The Somali Digest· 11 maalmood ka horAbdirashid Janan Walks His Federal Forces Back to Jubaland
BELED HAWO, SOMALIA – Abdirashid Janan assembled the federal forces under his command at a military camp on the edge of Beled Hawo on Tuesday morning and told them that his dispute with Jubaland had…
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