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MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – President Yoweri Museveni has said Uganda’s nearly two-decade military deployment in Somalia was driven primarily by solidarity with Ethiopia – whose forces invaded Somalia in 2006 to remove the Islamic Courts Union from power in Mogadishu – rather than by any direct stake in Somalia’s own stability.

Museveni made the remar...


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MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Turkey will move to arrest and exile Somalia’s opposition leaders, including former President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, should they persist in their defiance of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s disputed term extension, a veteran Somali diplomat has warned.

Hussein Ali Duale, widely known as Ambassador Awil, made the claim in an...


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MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – More than a dozen Somali army personnel were killed on Monday when a military truck carrying troops was struck by an improvised explosive device (IED) near the town of Mubarak in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region, according to reports.

The attack targeted a Somali military vehicle travelling between Awdhegle and Mubarak, two ...


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MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre on Tuesday launched a blistering attack on the country’s international partners, accusing them of facing a “cultural problem” and of continuing to treat Somalia as though it were still in the transitional period, when the country had no laws, constitution or meaningful government.

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MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Somalia’s parliament handed its most powerful gavel to a man widely regarded as Ankara’s foremost asset in Mogadishu on Monday, electing Minister of Ports and Maritime Transport Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur as speaker of the House of the People in a vote the opposition immediately branded illegal.

Nur, known across Somali politic...


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