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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Puntland State security forces have destroyed more than 100 Islamic State bases in the Cal-Miskaad mountains over the past year, sharply degrading the extremist group’s capabilities in northern Somalia, the region’s police chief said Thursday. Gen. Mumin Abdi Shire said the campaign, conducted under Operation Hilaac, has eliminated key ISIS fighters and reduced the group’s military capacity by nearly 85 percent. He said troops dismantled weapons caches, supply depots and facilities used to manufacture…

Thursday, December 11, 2025 MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has launched an emergency diphtheria vaccination drive in the Banadir region as an expanding outbreak kills at least 50 people in recent weeks and infects more than 1,000 children, officials said. The five-day campaign begins Monday, Dec. 15, and will deploy teams to neighborhoods, health centers and schools in Mogadishu and surrounding districts. The ministry urged parents to ensure children are vaccinated, calling diphtheria “a…

Mogadishu — Somali and U.S. forces are intensifying a joint campaign in northeastern Somalia to capture Abdulqadir Mumin, whom U.S. officials say now leads the Islamic State group, as his estranged wife in Britain says he abandoned the family more than a decade ago and has not contacted them since. Security officials say Mumin is believed to be hiding in the Cal Miskaad mountains in Puntland State, where Islamic State fighters have fortified camps and used remote valleys to evade detection. U.S. Africa Command has said the…

Somalia says it maintains direct contacts with North Western State of Somalia, seeks political solution amid rising Horn of Africa stakes MOGADISHU — Somalia’s government is engaging in direct and regular contact with authorities in North Western State of Somalia and pursuing a negotiated political settlement, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ali Omar Balcad said in an interview published Saturday. Speaking to Doha News, Balcad reaffirmed the federal government’s position that North Western State of Somalia remains part…

A single administration that controls all of Libya's territory must be set up, Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj said on Thursday. Speaking on television to the country for its 69th independence anniversary, Sarraj said that the Internationally Recognized Government of National Agreement (GNA) supports the idea of ​​holding presidential and parliamentary elections in December 2021 throughout Libya. He added that GNA had made a serious effort to make the election a success and called on the United…

The Libyan army on Saturday said there was a military build-up around the northern province of Sirte and central Jufra as well as southern regions of forces loyal to Putist general Khalifa Haftar. Abdulhadi Dirah, a spokesman for the Libyan army's Sirte-Jufra Joint Operations Unit, told Anadolu Agency (AA) that a Russian cargo plane landed at Sirte's Qardabiya Air Base on Saturday morning. The army further decided that 23 armored vehicles and two trucks loaded with ammunition were on their way to the…

Assaults by forces loyal to Putist basic Khalifa Haftar on the Libyan military headquarters within the southern province of Ubari are meant to sabotage the political course of and violate the ceasefire, Libya's high physique of the council stated on Monday. In a written assertion, the Council condemned the assault, saying: "This ceasefire is in actual fact an implementation of overseas plans aimed toward sabotaging the answer to the Libyan disaster by dialogue." The Council stated that this assault…

Twenty thousand international fighters and mercenaries stay in Libya regardless of a ceasefire and a prolonged arms embargo, the UN envoy to the nation stated Wednesday, calling the scenario a "surprising violation of Libyan sovereignty." Forces loyal to the UN-recognized Nationwide Accord (GNA) authorities primarily based in Tripoli and people of Putchist Common Khalifa Haftar formally agreed to a ceasefire in October. The settlement states that each one army items and armed teams should withdraw from…

The UN says meals has now run out of practically 100,000 Eritrean refugees who've taken refuge in camps in Ethiopia's northern Tigray area, which has been lower off from the world for nearly a month throughout preventing. "Considerations are rising by the hour," UN refugee spokesman Babar Baloch informed reporters in Geneva on Tuesday. "The camps will now run out of meals - making starvation and malnutrition an actual hazard, a warning we have now issued for the reason that battle. began virtually a…

A weekend assault on a village in northeastern Nigeria signposted by the Boko Haram group left at the least 110 lifeless, UN humanitarian coordinators within the nation stated on Sunday. "No less than 110 civilians had been ruthlessly killed and plenty of others injured on this assault," Edward Kallon stated in an announcement after the unique tolls indicated 43 after which at the least 70 lifeless after Saturday's bloodbath of suspected Boko Haram fighters. "The incident is essentially the most…