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Somalia announced on Thursday the expulsion of Ethiopia’s ambassador and the closure of a consulate in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland and another in the Somaliland region, in the context of escalating tension between the two countries.

In light of the crisis in Mogadishu with Somaliland, the former is at odds with Puntland, which has begun to move away from the authority of the central government, especially after it signed a memorandum of understanding with Ethiopia.

On Wednesday, the Minister of State at the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry, Misgano Arga, received a delegation from the Somali state of Puntland, headed by the Minister of Finance in the state government, Mohamed Farah Mohamed.

In Addis Ababa, the two sides discussed trade and investment cooperation as well as cooperation in the field of energy and joint infrastructure projects to strengthen and expand bilateral relations.
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#Somalia #Ethiopia #Ethiopia_News #Puntland #Somali_Region #Somalia_News
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Somalia announced on Thursday the expulsion of Ethiopia’s ambassador and the closure of a consulate in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland and another in the Somaliland region, in the context of escalating tension between the two countries.

In light of the crisis in Mogadishu with Somaliland, the former is at odds with Puntland, which has begun to move away from the authority of the central government, especially after it signed a memorandum of understanding with Ethiopia.

On Wednesday, the Minister of State at the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry, Misgano Arga, received a delegation from the Somali state of Puntland, headed by the Minister of Finance in the state government, Mohamed Farah Mohamed.

In Addis Ababa, the two sides discussed trade and investment cooperation as well as cooperation in the field of energy and joint infrastructure projects to strengthen and expand bilateral relations.
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#Somalia #Ethiopia #Ethiopia_News #Puntland #Somali_Region #Somalia_News
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Somalia’s military court has sentenced a police station director and his deputy to death accused of kidnapping and killing a trader.

The court sentenced to death the director of police in Mogadishu’s Halwa district, Abdifatah Mohamed Hassan, and his deputy, Mohamed Abdi Mohamed, on charges of kidnapping and premeditated murder of merchant Abubakar Ahmed Kabah on 24 February 2024.

The court revealed the involvement of the two individuals in planning and carrying out the murder, and sentenced Liban Mohamed Omar and Hassan Mohamed Saeed to 15 years in prison, and Mohamed Adawi Ali and Yassin Abdi Jama to 10 years in prison for their participation in the conspiracy.

The military court decided to strip the defendants of their military ranks and expel them from the police force.

#Somalia #Execution #Holloway_Directorate #Mogadishu #Somalia_News #Trader
The website “Africa Intelligence” close to French intelligence, revealed that the American military company “Amentum” is working to train fighters in Tripoli.

According to the report, American military personnel affiliated with “Academi”, which is close to the Pentagon, have quietly arrived in Libya in the past few weeks.

More than 5 military flights between American bases in the region and the Watiya Air Base controlled by Turkey, located northwest of the country near the Tunisian border, have been observed during the past period.

According to the website, the company’s trainers have been training armed groups in the Tripoli area since last month. These groups include three brigades of “militias”: Brigade 444 led by Mahmoud Hamza, Brigade 111 led by Abdul Salam Al-Zoubi, and Brigade 166 led by Mohammed Al-Hussein.
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#Somalia #Abdul_Hamid_Al_Dabaiba #Benin #Libya #Libya_News #NATO #Pentagon #Tripoli #Tunisia #United_States #Washington
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Reuters reported that Somali pirates released the hijacked ship “Abdullah” and its crew of 23 members after a ransom of $5 million was paid.

One of the pirates, Abdul Rashid Yusuf, told the agency that they received the money two nights ago as usual, then validated and divided the funds, before releasing the ship and its entire crew on Sunday, avoiding government forces.

Somali government officials did not respond to requests for comment.

The Bangladeshi-flagged bulk ship was hijacked in March while on its voyage from Mozambique to the United Arab Emirates, about 600 nautical miles east of the Somali capital Mogadishu.

Waters off the Somali coast were in chaos between 2008 and 2018 due to pirate activity, and things remained calm until the end of last year, when pirate activity began to rise again.
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#Somalia #Bangladesh #Mogadishu #Mozambique #Pirates #Somalia_News #UAE
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Morocco ranks second in the list of the most migrant exporting countries on the African continent, after Egypt, according to the latest report issued by the International Organization for Migration.

In its Global Migration 2024 report, the organization said that Morocco came second after Egypt, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, and Algeria, followed by the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and Mali.

Irregular migration from West and Central Africa often occurs along the Central Mediterranean route (sea crossings from North Africa and the Middle East mainly to Italy), the Western Mediterranean route (consisting of several branch lines linking Morocco and Algeria to Spain), and the West African Atlantic route (from coastal states in West Africa and Morocco to the Canary Islands in Spain).

#Somalia #Algeria #Egypt #Egypt_News #Europe #Irregular_Migration #Italy #Migrants #Morocco #Morocco_News #South_Sudan #Spain #Sudan
The Somali government has requested the termination of a UN political mission advising it on peace, security, and democratic reforms for more than 10 years.

This came in a letter sent by Somali Foreign Minister Ahmed Moalim Faki to the UN Security Council.

Three U.N. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that the 360-member U.N. Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) was surprised by the request to leave when its mandate ends in October.

In the letter, Foreign Minister Faki did not give reasons for the decision, saying only that the government believes it is “now appropriate to move to the next phase of our partnership.
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#Ahmed_Maalem_Faqi #Somali_Foreign_Minister #Somali_Government #Somalia_News #United_Nations #United_Nations_Mission_in_Somalia #United_Nations_Security_Council
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Morocco’s National Human Rights Council, through its President Amina Bouayach, announced that Somalia has agreed to transfer six Moroccan nationals convicted on charges related to their links to ISIS.

Bouayach confirmed that this agreement will allow those sentenced to serve their sentences in Morocco, after they were convicted to death last February by a Somali military court.

Bouayach made this statement on the sidelines of a seminar dedicated to the Council's international relations organized within the framework of the 29th International Book and Publishing Fair.

Bouayach pointed to the joint efforts between Moroccan NGOs and official authorities to rescue and repatriate sentenced Moroccan citizens in Somalia, reflecting solidarity and concern for human rights and justice.

Several other Moroccan NGOs have mobilized their efforts by calling on the kingdom's official authorities to rescue and repatriate the six Moroccan nationals sentenced to death on February 29th by a military court in northern Somalia on terrorism-related charges.

#Somalia #Execution #ISIS #Islamic_State #Morocco #National_Council_for_Human_Rights #Spain
A military court in Puntland province has begun trying five individuals accused of links to the terrorist group al-Shabaab, convicting and sentencing four of them.

The trial took place in the city of Bosaso on the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden in northeastern Somalia.

The five defendants were charged with belonging to “al-Shabaab” and using their vehicles to transport the group from mountainous areas to carry out attacks against civilians and government officials in Bosaso.

During the arrests, security forces arrested a vehicle, which the defendants are believed to have used to facilitate their terrorist activities.

Somaliland authorities have begun deploying military and artillery forces on the outskirts of Og in the eastern Sool region.
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#Aden_Gulf #Al_Shabaab_Movement #Bosaso_City #Counterterrorism #High_Security_Committee_Khatumo #Khatumo #Military_Court #Puntland_Region #Somali_Region #Somalia_News #Sool_Region
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The UN Security Council has imposed sanctions on three “al-Shabaab” leaders at the request of the Somali government, in an important step to combat terrorism.

The decision, issued on Thursday, included sanctions against three individuals identified as key figures in the organization, Abdelkader Ekrema, Mohamed Mahmoud Mir and Mohamed Omar Mohamed, and sanctions imposed on the three individuals include asset freezes and travel bans.

Somalia has been plagued by insecurity for years, with the main threats emanating from al-Shabaab and other terrorist groups such as ISIS.

In a horrific incident on Wednesday, the capital Mogadishu shot and killed Ibrahim Abdi Abdirahman, a member of parliament from Somalia’s southwestern regional state.
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#Abdiasis_Hassan_Mohamed_Laftagaren #Al_Shabaab #Counterterrorism #Ibrahim_Abdi_Abdirahman #ISIS #Mogadishu #Sanctions #Somali_Government #Somalia_News #Southwest_State_of_Somalia #UN_Security_Council
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The Somali Federal Government forces and the Dervish forces, affiliated with the Lower Jubba region in the state of Jubaland in southern Somalia, headed to the Badadi area, where Al-Shabaab fighters are based.

The military officials leading operations against Al-Shabaab in Badadi explained that their goal is to liberate the area and remove the movement’s members from it.

Local residents in the area are concerned that a battle could break out at any time, which indicates that both sides are seriously preparing and that there are intense movements and preparations.

The allied forces recently took control of the Boluhaji area and expelled Al-Shabaab fighters, which control Jubaland.
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#Somalia #Al_Shabaab #Badadi #Boluhaji #Dervish_Forces #Galgaduud #Juba #Jubaland #Somalia_News
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The Rwandan Ministry of Emergency Management announced the arrival of 113 refugees and migrants to Rwanda from Libya under the supervision of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

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This is the eighteenth group since the beginning of the program’s implementation, and it consists of individuals of six different nationalities, including South Sudan, Eritrea, Ivory Coast, and Somalia.

The emergency evacuation mechanism was established in 2019 at the initiative of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, in response to the humanitarian crisis exacerbated by the detention of African refugees in Libya, as they were trying to cross to Europe via the Mediterranean.

So far, Rwanda has received about 2,300 migrants and asylum seekers within this mechanism, and more than 1,300 of them were able to move to third countries.
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#Eritrea #Somalia #Ivory_Coast #Libya #Rwanda #Sudan #United_Nations #War_in_Sudan
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The United States has announced the provision of $315 million in emergency aid to Sudanese people, warning of a potential famine of historic proportions and holding both sides of the conflict responsible for the humanitarian disaster.

The aid includes food assistance, drinking water, malnutrition screenings, and emergency treatment for children.

This assistance comes amid estimates that five million people within Sudan are suffering from severe hunger, with food shortages also affecting neighboring countries to which two million Sudanese have fled.

US Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told reporters, “We want the world to wake up to the disaster happening before our eyes.
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#Somalia #Chad #Darfur #Ethiopia #Famine_in_Sudan_United_States_of_America #humanitarian_aid #Humanitarian_Disaster #Linda_Thomas_Greenfield #Rapid_Support_Forces #Samantha_Power #Sudan_News #Sudanese_Army #United_Nations
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The Somali government called for postponing the withdrawal of the African peacekeeping force “ATMIS” in order to avoid a security vacuum that might enhance the return of the “Al-Shabaab” movement after the defeats it suffered.

The African Union Transitional Mission in Somalia is scheduled to withdraw by December 31 of this year, to be replaced by a smaller African force. However, the Mogadishu authorities have requested to postpone the withdrawal of half of the forces scheduled for this June, consisting of 4,000 soldiers, until next September.
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#African_Peacekeeping_Forces #African_Union #African_Union_Mission_in_Somalia #Al_Shabaab #Ethiopia #European_Union #Mogadishu #Somali_Government #Somalia_News #UN_Security_Council #United_States_of_America
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Somalia’s representative to the United Nations, Abu Bakr Dahir Osman, accused the Ethiopian forces of “carrying out illegal incursions across the common border between the two countries, which led to confrontations with the Somali security forces.”

Osman said, “The recent action taken by Ethiopia forced his country to postpone the withdrawal of the African Union Mission in Somalia forces from next July to next September.”

About 3,000 Ethiopian soldiers are stationed in Somalia, a country located in the Horn of Africa, as part of the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, “Atmis,” which is fighting the Al-Shabaab rebel movement.

There are also between 5 and 7 thousand additional Ethiopian soldiers in a number of Somali regions under a bilateral agreement between the two countries.
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#Somalia #African_Union #Al_Shabaab #Atmis #Ethiopia #Hiran #Horn_of_Africa
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Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, discussed the situation in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea region, during a phone call, according to the official Somali News Agency.

The two presidents welcomed the momentum witnessed in cooperation between the two countries in the recent period, stressing their keenness to expand the horizons of cooperation to include various fields in accordance with the fraternal ties between the two peoples.

They stressed the importance of ensuring the security and stability of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden regions, which will reflect positively on the Horn of Africa and its people.
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#Eritrea #Somalia #Abdel_Fattah_Al_Sisi #Djibouti #Egypt #Ethiopia #Hassan_Sheikh_Mahmoud #Horn_of_Africa #Red_Sea #Somaliland_Region #Suez_Canal
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Dr. Badr Abdel Ati visited the countries of Djibouti and Somalia to discuss enhancing cooperation and securing maritime navigation in the Red Sea.

The visit included holding bilateral discussions with his Djiboutian and Somali counterparts, followed by press conferences, in conjunction with the launch of a new airline connecting Egypt with these two Arab countries, according to a statement by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.
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#Somalia #Ahmed_Abu_Zeid #Ahmed_Moallem_Faqi #Al_Azhar #Badr_Abdel_Ati #Djibouti #Djibouti_Center_for_Moderation #Egypt #Horn_of_Africa #Mahmoud_Ali_Youssef #Maritime_Security #Red_Sea #Sudan #Terrorism
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The Egyptian authorities are intensifying their efforts to arrest a Sudanese citizen who killed a Sudanese woman by shooting her in front of passers-by in the Giza region in southern Egypt, before fleeing the scene.

It was reported that the authorities received a report that a Sudanese woman was killed by a Sudanese citizen’s bullets in front of the UNHCR in 6th of October City.

Immediately, security forces moved to the scene of the accident, where they found a woman in her fifties dead as a result of a gunshot wound.

Investigations revealed that a dispute broke out between the woman and the man of the same nationality in front of the Commission, which developed into an argument and a fistfight.

#Eritrea #Somalia #6th_of_October_City #and_Ethiopia #Egypt #Egyptian_Authorities #Egyptian_Public_Prosecution #Giza #Iraq #Murder #Sudan #Sudanese_Refugees #Syria #Yemen
The Somali Armed Forces succeeded in repelling attacks launched by “Al-Shabaab” on newly liberated areas in Jubba land State, south of the country.

“Reuters” reported, citing Somali officials, that the clashes resulted in the killing of dozens of militants from the movement.

According to local security sources, Al-Shabaab attempted to storm three military bases southwest of the coastal city of Kismayo in Jubba land state, but government forces were able to repel the attacks.

The attacks were carried out in a coordinated and separate manner on military bases in southern and western Kismayo, in addition to attacks on the towns of Bulu Haji, Harpoli and Medo.

The militants attacked a fourth base in Bar Sangoni in an attempt to prevent reinforcements from reaching the bases that were attacked.
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#Somalia #Abdul_Rahman_Yusuf_Al_Adala #Al_Shabaab_Movement #Bar_Sangoni #Bolo_Haji #Harpoli #Jubaland_State #Kismayo #Medo #Mohamed_Farah_Dahir #Somali_Armed_Forces
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The “Nigerian Tribune” newspaper revealed in a recent report that Libya topped the list of the most corrupt African countries for the year 2024, according to the Corruption Perceptions Index issued by Transparency International.

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The report indicated that Libya ranked 170th globally out of 180 countries included in the evaluation, indicating the widespread corruption in the country.

The report stated that the weakness of institutions and political instability, which worsened after the overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, contributed significantly to the exacerbation of corruption in Libya.
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#Eritrea #Somalia #African_Continent #Burundi #Chad #Comoros #Corruption_in_Libya #Corruption_Issues #Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo #Equatorial_Guinea #Libya #Muammar_Gaddafi #South_Sudan #Sudan #Transparency_International
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