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Sep
30
2023
By The African Mirror
Suicide bomber kills at least 7 in Somali tea shop; al Shabaab claims responsibility

Suicide bomber kills at least 7 in Somali tea shop; al Shabaab claims responsibility

NEWS
A suicide bomber set off an explosion at a shop selling tea in Somalia's capital, killing at least seven people, a witness and medical personnel. Police put the number of dead at five. Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on its Arabic media unit Shahada News Agency, the SITE Intelligence Group reported on Friday. It put the number of dead at 11 and wounded at 18; its numbers on casualties in attacks often differ from government figures. The Friday afternoon blast occurred at a checkpoint on a road leading to the parliament and…
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Sep
24
2023
By The African Mirror
Truck bomb kills at least 10 in Somalia

Truck bomb kills at least 10 in Somalia

NEWS
A truck bomb exploded at a checkpoint in the central Somali town of Beledweyne, killing at least 10 people and obliterating nearby buildings, a police officer said. It was not immediately clear who was responsible but the Islamist group al Shabaab frequently carries out bombings in the Horn of Africa country. "So far I have seen 10 dead people including soldiers and civilians and over a dozen others injured, but the death toll is sure to rise," police officer Ahmed Aden told Reuters. Beledweyne is in central Somalia's Hiran region which has recently witnessed battles between the military and al…
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Jun
21
2023
By The African Mirror
36 dead in violence in Somalia’s Puntland and Lower Shabelle regions

36 dead in violence in Somalia’s Puntland and Lower Shabelle regions

NEWS
AT least 36 people died in violence across Somalia that involved heavy fighting in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland and bomb explosions in the country's Lower Shabelle region, witnesses said. In Puntland, heavy fighting broke out early Tuesday in the state capital Garowe as the local parliament debated changes to the voting system. At least 26 people died in that fighting and 16 of those were soldiers, while 30 others were injured, Dr Abdirsak Ahmed, who works at Garowe Public Hospital where some of the bodies were taken, told Reuters. Three other witnesses described heavy fighting that erupted after opposition…
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May
29
2023
By The African Mirror
Somalia says it will revert to direct vote for officials starting next year

Somalia says it will revert to direct vote for officials starting next year

NEWS
SOMALIA will start electing its president and other officials by direct vote next year, the government announced, ending a system of indirect voting in the Horn of Africa country that has endured three decades of conflict and clan battles. Amid widespread insecurity caused by an Islamist insurgency and weak state structures, in recent years lawmakers voted for the president, while clan heads and elders elected lawmakers in both the federal government and regional states. The country had initially been scheduled to revert to universal suffrage in 2020 but protracted squabbles among politicians and persisting insecurity across the country forced the…
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May
26
2023
By The African Mirror
UN gets $2.4 bln in pledges for Horn of Africa aid efforts

UN gets $2.4 bln in pledges for Horn of Africa aid efforts

NEWS
THE United Nations received pledges of $2.4 billion to help fund aid operations for some 32 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, but the donations fall short of what the U.N. was seeking as it warned against a possible "catastrophe." The U.N. has appealed for more than $7 billion for the three countries, but prior to Wednesday's pledging conference Somalia was just 25% funded, Ethiopia 22% and Kenya just 21%. The United Nations describes the Horn of Africa as the epicentre of one of the world's worst climate emergencies. "People in the Horn of Africa are paying an unconscionable price for…
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Apr
13
2023
By The African Mirror
Somalis suffering from climate crisis they did nothing to create, U.N. chief says

Somalis suffering from climate crisis they did nothing to create, U.N. chief says

NEWS
SOMALIA is suffering from the impact of a climate crisis it has done almost nothing to create, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday, as a full-blown famine threatens to follow a drought that killed 43,000 people last year. Some 8.3 million Somalis, almost half the population, require urgent humanitarian assistance, Guterres said, adding that only 15% of the country's $2.6 billion aid requirement for this year has been met. "When famine looms, this is totally unacceptable," Guterres told reporters in Mogadishu. He was speaking after visiting a camp in Baidoa, southwest Somalia, for people displaced by the drought…
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Feb
12
2023
By The African Mirror
Somaliland agree on ceasefire

Somaliland agree on ceasefire

NEWS
ABDIQANI HASSAN THE administration of Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland said late it had agreed to an unconditional ceasefire, following five days of clashes in the east of the territory that health workers say have killed dozens of people. Heavy fighting broke out between Somaliland forces and militiamen in and around the town of Las Anod, the administrative centre of the Sool region, on Monday after local leaders said they wanted to rejoin federal Somalia.Advertisement · Scroll to continue Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 but has not gained widespread international recognition for its status, and has faced opposition from…
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Feb
03
2023
By The African Mirror
Somalia’s neighbours to launch new operations against al Shabaab militants

Somalia’s neighbours to launch new operations against al Shabaab militants

NEWS
TOP leaders of Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya agreed to begin "search and destroy" operations to push al Shabaab militants out of neighbouring Somalia. The move follows an intensified offensive by Somalia's federal government against the al-Qaeda-affiliated group over the past few months. It has taken back control of several towns and villages in central Somalia with the help of the U.S. military, allied clan militias and forces belonging to Somali regional governments. Kenya's President William Ruto, Djibouti's President Ismail Omer Guelleh and Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed met their Somali counterpart Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Mogadishu to review measures to…
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Jan
28
2023
By The African Mirror
US kills Islamic State leader in Somalia

US kills Islamic State leader in Somalia

NEWS
THE U.S. military carried out an operation that killed a senior Islamic State leader in northern Somalia, U.S. officials said on Thursday. The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told reporters that Bilal al-Sudani, a U.S.-designated ISIS leader in Somalia, was killed in the operation along with about 10 of his associates. They added that the operation was approved by President Joe Biden earlier this week and carried out within the past 24 hours. The officials declined to discuss the basic details of the operation. They declined to articulate any direct threat posed by Sudani to the United States,…
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Jan
20
2023
By The African Mirror
Al-Shabaab is just a symptom of Somalia’s tragedy – the causes are still in place

Al-Shabaab is just a symptom of Somalia’s tragedy – the causes are still in place

SPECIAL FEATURES: ANALYSIS
FOR at least 14 years now, the militant group Al-Shabaab has terrorised the southern region of Somalia. Its ambition is to impose a tyrannical dictatorship over the entire country through fear and brutality. To achieve its aims, it has sought to oust the Somali government and its foreign military allies. I have been a student of Somali political economy for over three decades. I predicted the collapse of the Somali state and political order 33 years ago. That analysis foretold the miserable conditions Somalis have endured since. The political and humanitarian catastrophe predates the terrorist group’s rise – thus, Al-Shabaab…
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