Successive forces have come through the revovling doors of the Horn of Africa nation and gone out without implementing a ...

Somalia's Minister of Defense, Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur, hosted a meeting with James Swan, the Acting Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia, at the Ministry of Defense ...

The government of Somalia has finalised technical discussions on the involvement of the Egyptian Defence Forces in the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM), the Defence ...

Aussom is scraping by on funds from the AU Peace Fund, which is enough to support the mission for the next four months only.

Somalia announced that obstacles to Ethiopia's participation in the new African Union mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) have been overcome, and the final stage of the composition and size of Ethiopian ...

The collapse of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in 2021 offers crucial lessons for Somalia as it transitions from relying on external military support to taking full ...

Somalia also finalizes technical discussions with Egypt on its participation in new African Union peacekeeping mission in ...

The Ugandan military said on Tuesday that it will send more peacekeeping troops to Somalia following the exit of those deployed by Burundi under the A ...

The Somali Defence Minister, Abdullahi Mohamed Nur, held a key meeting on Monday with the Director of the Conflict Management Directorate at the African Union Commission (AUC), Sarjoh Bah, to discuss ...

The United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU) decided in December 2024 to replace the current AU Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) with a smaller force – the AU Support and Stabilization Mission ...

Since then, discussions have focused mainly on Egypt and Ethiopia's contributions to Aussom. Their possible deployments intersect with geopolitical tensions in the Horn of Africa - including over ...