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Jun
08
2021
By The African Mirror
Kenyan air strike kills woman and her child

Kenyan air strike kills woman and her child

NEWS
A Somali mother and her child were killed and four others injured when a Kenyan warplane bombed two towns in southern Somalia, the woman's husband said has revealed. The bombing by the Kenyan plane occurred in two towns in the Gedo area in Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Jubbaland. The Somali government has condemned what it called "indiscriminate air strikes" in El Ade and Hisa-u-Gur towns carried out by Kenyan forces. A contingent of the Kenyan military is part of the African Union-mandated peacekeeping force AMISOM stationed in Somalia to help defend the government from the al Qaeda-linked insurgent group al…
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Feb
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Jubbaland rejects president’s inclusion

Jubbaland rejects president’s inclusion

NEWS
ONE of five of Somalia's regional governments said on Sunday it had rejected the inclusion of national President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed in talks aimed at resolving a deadlock on a delayed election, exacerbating a crisis on the vote. Leaders in the two federal states, Puntland and Jubbaland, had already said earlier this month they would no longer recognise President Mohamed, whose term expired on Feb.8. "The expired president Farmajo should be out of the election process. He should not have a role in the process of election in order for all political stakeholders to have confidence in it," Jubbaland's state…
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Feb
22
2021
By The African Mirror
Somali president challenged

Somali president challenged

NEWS
SOMALIA’S  president, whose four-year term expired this month, should not take part in talks aimed at resolving a dispute that has caused a delay in choosing a new head of state, two of Somalia's five regional governments said yesterday. Parliament had been due to make a choice on February 8, but this was delayed because new lawmakers have yet to be picked while opponents of President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who is seeking a second term, accuse him of packing his supporters into the regional and national boards who choose the legislators. The delay has stoked tensions in the Horn of…
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Jan
26
2021
By The African Mirror
At least 11 killed after fighting erupts in Somalia’s Jubbaland

At least 11 killed after fighting erupts in Somalia’s Jubbaland

NEWS
ABDIQANI HASSAN AT least 11 people were killed yesterday after fighting broke out between the Somali federal army and Jubbaland state forces in the Gedo region of southwestern Somalia, a local doctor told Reuters. Somalia's federal government confirmed there had been fighting, concentrated in the town of Bula Hawa bordering Kenya. But it and Jubbaland, one of Somalia's five semi-autonomous states, reported no casualties. Mogadishu accused Kenya of backing Jubbaland in the fighting, an accusation that Jubbaland denies. "Kenya and its guerrilla rebels attacked Bula Hawa town last night," Osman Dube, Somalia's information minister, told reporters in Mogadishu. "We overpowered…
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