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WASHINGTON/HARGEISA - Clashes between opposition protesters and safety forces in Somalia's breakaway area of Somaliland have killed three folks and wounded almost 90, safety and medical sources stated Thursday. Hundreds of indignant supporters of the opposition Wadani and UCID events took to the streets in not less than three main cities - Hargeisa, Erigavo and Burao - establishing roadblocks, burning tires and stoning automobiles and companies. Security officers stated the protesters have been defying a authorities…

Mogadishu - Puntland safety forces seized explosive supplies hidden in a truck car in Galdogob district of Mudug area on Wednesday. The car was heading to the Somali regional state of Ethiopia, however safety personnel intercepted it earlier than it crossed the border after receiving info, in keeping with safety officers. They added that the supplies they seized might be fabricated from about 150 landmines and the motive force was additionally arrested. Special police forces in Ethiopia's Somali area have…

Kismayo - The Jubaland Regional Administration confirmed on Monday that a whole bunch of fighters from the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) crossed the border into Somali territory and had reached components of the Gedo area after weeks of preventing Al Shabab within the Bakool area. Federal Republic of Somalia Security Minister Yusuf Dhumal mentioned the Ethiopian forces reached the southern Gedo city of Dolow however have been not a part of the UN-backed African Union Transitional Mission in Somalia (ATMIS).…

Mogadishu - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni instructed a Somali delegation in Kampala on Monday that his authorities was keen to assist Somalia within the battle towards al-Shabaab, however that his nation didn't have the monetary means to pay for the salaries of Somali troopers. . "We can help Somalia defeat Al Shabaab. If it's a question of arms, we can buy them and give them to them (Somalia). We can buy uniforms and even distribute food, but we can't handle the salary. Salary, for even a month, we cannot manage."…

Prime Minister Abiy chairs Ethiopia safety assembly ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia has praised the nation's safety equipment for the operations carried out in current weeks, "success" in keeping with the administration of Addis Ababa, taken by storm for just a few years. The National Security Council confirmed this technique to defeat varied militia teams, together with the Oromo Liberation Front whom…

Ethiopian safety forces kill 333 suspected rebels: official ADDIS ABABA -- Ethiopian safety forces killed 333 suspected Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) rebels throughout a current safety operation, an Ethiopian official stated. Speaking to native media on Saturday, Minister of State for Government Communications Service Selamawit Kassa stated the safety operation which began on July 23 and ended on…

Mogadishu  - Southwest President Abdilaziz Laftagareen arrived in Addis Ababa on Friday following an invite from the Ethiopian authorities to focus on ongoing safety operations. President Laftagareen's journey got here days after he visited Baidoa, the capital of the southwestern state. Political insiders say relations between the South West Regional State and Somalia's federal authorities are rocky. Some say the latest appointment of former Al-Shabaab chief Mukhtar Robow, who as soon as ran for president within the…

Mogadishu - A rickshaw filled with improvised explosive gadgets (IEDs) was detonated by safety forces in Mogadishu's Hodan district on Friday afternoon. Eyewitnesses say the rickshaw exploded close to the well-liked Fatxi restaurant on Teleh highway. However, the safety officers informed state-owned Radio Mogadishu that the safety forces intercepted and exploded the rickshaw, including that the operator of the rickshaw, who suffered minor accidents, was additionally arrested. No one else was injured or killed within…

Mogadishu - Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud congratulated the appointed cupboard member at a welcome assembly at Villa Somalia on Tuesday night. He praised Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre for "electing a quality government" that will fulfill the expectations of the Somali individuals. "The Somali people expect you to serve them honestly and work to solve their problems. You must exercise responsibility, unity and remember the oath and responsibility." President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud urged the federal…

On a go to to the capital Galmudug on Saturday, Somalia's prime UN official met the pinnacle of the federal state for talks on plenty of points affecting the state and the nation basically. "We had the chance to focus on Somalia's profitable completion of the electoral processes – together with the House of the People and the presidential elections – and the essential duties that now lie forward for the federal authorities and federal member states, together with state-building, reconciliation and peace-building…