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Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and Somali Media Association (SOMA) call on the Galmudug authorities to investigate their Darwish police force for the raid on Sooyaal TV and Radio, a local independent media station in Abudwak city, Galgadud region, and beatings and detention director Mahad Bashir Osman for interviewing a group of police officers who went on strike on Sunday over unpaid wages. Around noon on Sunday, January 30, the heavily armed Darwish Force raided the radio station, beating…

MOGADISHU (HORNOB SERVANT) - A Swiss citizen Abdikarin Ahmedsalan Abdi, who lives in Graubünden, has succeeded in gaining protection of the terrorist group in Somalia after paying the group to threaten two defenseless families in Mogadishu, whose underage girls were raped by Abdis . adult son Mohamed Abdikarin Ahmedsalan. According to the families of the victims, the two girls, aged 10 and 11, were living with their grandmother in the Wardhigley district of Mogadishu when Ahmedsalan raped…

MOGADISHU (AXADLE) - Somalia's escalating drought is creating a massive displacement crisis. 245,000 people have already fled their homes, and the number is expected to reach 1.4 million as the drought worsens. "Somalia's drought is escalating dangerously after three failed rainy seasons and some of the lowest rainfall in 40 years," said Mohamed Abdi, country director of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in Somalia. "Without urgent preventive action to remedy the crisis, lives will be lost."…

Mogadishu (AXADLE) - Somali and Djibouti governments have deported more than 387 Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) members over the past 20 years, the group's spokesman confirmed. ONLF is a rebel group that had been fighting Ethiopian forces in the east of the country for more than three decades to secede from Ethiopia. Abdikadir Hassan Hirmoge spoke to the BBC Somali Service, a spokesman for the ONLF, and said that at least top officials from the group in Mogadishu had been handed over to…

MOGADISHU (Horn Observer) - At least 20 al-Shabaab militants have been killed and several others wounded in security operations in central Somalia, the Somali National Army confirmed on Wednesday. SNA chief Yussuf Odawa Rage told state-owned media that forces destroyed bases belonging to al-Shabaab militants in areas between the towns of Dhusamareeb and Guriel in the Galgaduud region. According to Rage, the forces dismantled explosives planted on the road between the two cities."Somali army has…

MOGADISHU (AXADLE) - The newly appointed US Ambassador to Somalia Larry André has arrived in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, today. The plane with delegates from the ambassador and the US embassy in the middle of the morning at Adan Adde International Airport, where they were received by officials from the Somali Foreign Ministry. André, who has replaced Donald Yamamoto, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, will soon take office.The US Embassy in Somalia has announced the arrival of the new…

MOGADISHU, Somalia January 22, 2022 - Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and its partner Somali Media Association (SOMA) condemn the raid and the closure of the local independent radio station in Beledweyne and the detention of its seven journalists by the Hirshabelle police in Beledweyne Friday, January 21, 2022 following interviews with local armed resistance who oppose the Hirshabelle authorities. According to CCTV footage seen by SJS and SOMA and interviews with journalists, Radio Hiiraan…

WASHINGTON, DC - The ICRC is deeply concerned that the remaining detainees in Guantanamo Bay have been behind bars for so many years with little or no clarity about what will happen to them. The ICRC notes that some prisoners remain in Guantanamo Bay today despite being considered eligible for transfer more than ten years ago. "The detainees who are considered eligible by the U.S. government should be transferred today," said Patrick Hamilton, ICRC's chief of staff in the United States and…

MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVATOR) False Somali police officers have been enrolled in a Russian-backed law enforcement training program designed to capacity Somali police force, according to leaked documents obtained by Horn Observer. In May 2021, the Russian Embassy in Djibouti offered to support Somali police force with a five-year training program covering psychology of service to law enforcement agencies, legal aspects of national security and forensic investigation. The training took place at…

NAIROBI (AXADLE) The British Minister for Africa, Vicky Ford MP, today announced a $ 10.7 million package of British support for Somalis affected by extreme drought. The funding will provide vital assistance, such as cash to buy emergency food supplies, and water to help vulnerable families across Somalia who are suffering desperately from the relentless drought. The aid is part of the British aid package of 16.5 million pounds to countries in East Africa that have been hit by extreme drought…