The United Arab Emirates has offered Somalia to reopen a hospital in the capital, in exchange for backing the UAE’s involvement in the Yemeni war, but Somalia rejected this amid deteriorating relations between the two countries.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Essa Awad, repudiates rampant rumours purporting that Somalia, on the behest of its military and economy financiers – Turkey and Qatar – is sending troops to Libya to ‘return peace to the country’.
Ambiguity, tension and possible escalation surround the future of Egypt-Somalia relations due to the latter’s unclear position on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the conflict between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan that it has engendered.
Somali National Army (SNA) backed by Jubaland state forces killed six Al-Shabaab extremists on Saturday in a security operation on the outskirts of Kismayo, a military officer confirmed on Sunday.
Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo today held talks with the leader of Jubbaland regional state, Ahmed Mohamed Islam aka Ahmed Madobe, in the Galmudug state capital, Dusamareb.
The Pentagon has revealed that the United States now has some 500 troops on the ground in Somalia even as it denies a “build-up” of forces in the African country.
Turkey has opened its largest military base in Africa, in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, as the African country struggles in a protracted war against militants.