However, you can now see how it has transformed and is destined to serve its original purpose, which is to play football,” said Ali Abdi Mohamed, president of the Somali Football Federation.

as the regular army is now mostly clan militias,” Mohamed Mubarak, chairman of the Hiraal Institute, a Mogadishu-based security think tank, told Al Jazeera. “Somalia needs a professional ...

Shabaab's presence in central Somalia, the Somali National Army (SNA), backed by local Ma'awiisley fighters, launched a strategic offensive early Wednesday morning, successfully retaking the village ...

"This timetable is ambitious because the Somali security services are unlikely to be fully autonomous by then ... (Eagle), are now "reasonably well equipped," but the regular army units are ...

“We’ve been advocating for the last couple of weeks on how we can first stop the violence and then open a space ... “But now it is the Somali army, police and intelligence agencies [that ...

An Army physician now stationed at Fort ... two contractors dead. Although then-President Donald Trump previously ordered all U.S. military personnel out of Somalia in December 2020, the Pentagon ...

Officials in Somalia’s capital called it “yet another show of force” when in late January Islamist militants linked to al-Qaeda set off a bomb, then stormed ... between the army and a ...

Odawa Yusuf Rage, former commander of Somalia’s national army, has been nominated to return to that position in an extraordinary meeting convened by cabinet ministers in Mogadishu. Somalia has ...

The Somali National Army (SNA) apprehended Ali Geelle, a senior al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group al-Shabaab ringleader, during a military operation in the central region of Galgadud, ...

However, you can now see how it has transformed and is destined to serve its original purpose, which is to play football,” said Ali Abdi Mohamed, president of the Somali Football Federation.

The stadium was a base for Ethiopian troops between 2007 and 2009, and was then occupied ... were echoed by the Somali sports minister, Mohamed Barre, who said the onetime army base "has ...