Sources tell MEE minister’s efforts to deepen military, energy and aerospace cooperation with Ankara unsettled Washington. Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud dismissed his defence minister, Abuldkadir Mohamed Nur, on Sunday following lobbying efforts by the US military, sources told Middle East Eye. Nur has been reassigned as the minister of...
Horn of Africa: a new front in the US-Israel push to uproot Gaza’s Palestinians
In 2022, Somaliland offered the US military access to a strategic seaport and airfield in exchange for steps toward sovereignty. With Arab nations rejecting Trump's 'Middle East Riviera' plan, the United States and Israel are now eyeing the Horn of Africa as a potential destination for Palestinians forcibly uprooted from Gaza. One...
TALISKA CIIDANKA XOOGGA DALKA SOOMAALIYEED-WARSAXAAFADEED
Shabeellaha Dhexe, Maarso 11, 2025 - Cidanka Xoogga Dalka Soomaaliyeed (CDS) oo kashanaya saaxiibada caalamka ayaa fuliyay howlgal dugeyn ah oo si gaar ah loo gorsheeyay, kaas oo lagu beegsaday xubno sare oo ka tirsan Khawaarijta. Duqeynta ayaa ka dhacday deegaanka Damasha, Shabeelow e gobolka Shabeellaha Dhexe, halkaas oo lagu...
Ramadan 2025: Fasting hours and iftar times around the world
The dawn-to-dusk fast lasts anywhere from 13 to 16 hours, depending on where in the world you are. The Muslim holy month of Ramadan has begun worldwide. For the next 29 or 30 days, Muslims observing the fast will refrain from eating and drinking from dawn to dusk, a period lasting from...
Libyan, Somali leaders discuss cooperation on investment, education
TRIPOLI, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- President of the Libyan Presidency Council Mohamed Menfi emphasized the importance of Libya-Somalia cooperation during a press conference on Monday following talks with visiting Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. The two countries signed several cooperation memoranda covering investment, training, and education, according to Menfi. "We...
US and Tanzania Army Representatives Call for More Joint Exercises Following the Conclusion of Cutlass Express
The Cutlass Express maritime exercises began on February 10, 2025, and included participants from Comoros, Djibouti, France, Georgia, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Madagascar, Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania, Tunisia, Morocco, and the United States Representatives of the Tanzanian and US armies have called for increased joint training following the conclusion of the...
al-Shabaab to face renewed military operations in Somalia
A month into its new guise as the African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) senior commanders met their counterparts from the Somali National Army (SNA) to strategise joint counter offensive operations against al-Shabaab. AUSSOM is the third identity of the African Union (AU) mission in the easternmost...
Key Islamic State planner killed in airstrike, US says
WASHINGTON — The main target in a series of U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State terror group in Somalia earlier this month is dead, according to the most recent assessment by military officials. U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced late Tuesday that Islamic State attack planner Ahmed Maeleninine was killed along with...
How Somalis see the ‘Black Hawk Down’ battle three decades on
The expression Black Hawk Down, the title of a Hollywood film, has become shorthand for a 1993 US military disaster in Somalia. Eighteen American soldiers lost their lives in the fighting that began on 3 October, but so did hundreds of Somalis. As Netflix launches a documentary about those events,...
A letter to Donald J. Trump from Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, a Saudi prince and former government official who served as the head of Saudi Arabia’s General Intelligence Presidency from 1979 to 2001.
A letter to Donald J. Trump from Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, a Saudi prince and former government official who served as the head of Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Presidency from 1979 to 2001. He is a grandson of Saudi's founder King Abdulaziz and son of King Faisal. He...