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SOMALI MILITANTS CLAIM RESPONSIBILITY FOR ATTACK OUTSIDE HOTEL: SPOKESPERSON

Waagacusub.com - Somali Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for Saturday's attack outside a hotel in the town of Galkayo, in the country's Mudug region, which killed at least seven civilians, their spokesperson told Reuters.

Al-Shabab militants killed in Somalia

Waagacusub.com - The Somali Army has killed at least eight al-Shabab extremists in a fierce gun battle in the southern region of Bay, an official said.

Turkey's police special operations chief in Somalia

Waagacusub.com - Selami Turker, chief of Special Police Unit of Turkish National Police, met with Somali officials and exchanged

Commemorating the Real Somali Heroes Who Fought the Ethiopian Invasion

"General John Abizaid of the U.S. Central Command, which has military authority for the Horn of Africa, flew to Ethiopia recently to meet with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who has told American officials that he could cripple the Islamists "in one to two weeks."" (13 December 2006, Jeffrey…

Somalia Largest Mobile Network Company -Hormuud Telecom Linked among Top Shabaab Financiers

Somalia largest mobile telephone network company, Hormuud Telecom has been linked with entities funding and providing logistical support to the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabaab. The mobile telephone company has been accused of paying millions of shillings to the jihadist group for protection of its business…

MR ROOBLE DHEERE SENIOR SHABAB OFFICER IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF SOMALIA

"The most obstacle Somali federal government facing now is that several commanders mixed into security agencies and secretely working with terrorist elements, which is greater threat and danger to the state," this source was published on Voice Of The People Press. The Press also was quoted that…

SOMALIA: Funding Terror: Sugar from Kismayo

Al-Shabaab is more than just a terrorist group. In 2011, its annual revenue was in the region of $70–100 million per year. In 2018, the President of the Somali Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) confirmed that Al-Shabaab collected an estimated $20 million dollars from South Somalia alone.

To End Impunity in Somalia, SJS calls authorities to investigate and prosecute killers of journalists

Waagacusub.com- As the world marks the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) calls on the federal government of Somalia to investigate all crimes against journalists and bring the perpetrators to justice.

Djibouti : a journalist beaten and arrested twice

Waagacusub.com- calls for the immediate release of Osman Yonis Borogeh, a journalist who was detained and beaten by Djibouti's police for two days last week and was re-arrested yesterday. The authorities must also quickly investigate the use of these unacceptable methods in order to identify and…

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi targeted, believed dead in US raid in Syria: Sources

Waagacusub.com- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State last seen alive in a video in April, was targeted in a strike by U.S. Special Operations Forces in Syria on Saturday, according to three U.S. officials. The ISIS leader is believed to be dead, those officials told ABC News.

Ethiopia Premier Warns Non-Ethiopian Media Owners

Waagacusub.com- Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed warns non-Ethiopian media owners engaged in inciting conflicts among different communities by spreading hate speeches.

The blind woman who carried out the suicide attack has graduated and trained from Al Nur school for blind people, the school is managed by Hormud Telecom

Somalia: List of former Hormuud Telecom staff members who joined the terrorists. 1- Former Al Shabab leader Ahmed Godane was a member of Al-Barakaat group in Hargeisa. 2- Head of Amniyat branch of Al Shabab Mahad Karate was part of Al Barakat group in Mogadishu.

United States are not serious about the need for Somalia to reform.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a January 2010 speech that "development was once the province of humanitarians, charities, and governments looking to gain allies in global struggles. Today it is a strategic, economic, and moral imperative — as central to advancing American interests…

Al-Shabaab appoints Secretary of Finance - Hormuud Telecom Operation Manager

Al-Shabab Appoints well known person to the position of secretary of finance.

IMF Flawed Approach to Somalia Masks Deep Governance Failure

Somalia, after 20 years of statebuilding efforts, is precipitously descending again into deep civil strife because of autocratic, corrupt, incompetent, divisive, hypocritical federal leaders more than any other factor. Today Somalia experiences the authoritarianism that Nicholas Kayser-Bril described…

Somalia:The Dark Side of Al-Barakat Mobile Money Services.

Hormuud telecom largest shareholder as a prominent member of Al-shabaab -UN Report

Somalia: Taaj Express report of terrorism and its black market ?

Taaj Money transfer which has been established few years back became the fastest remittance company in the Somali Hawala market. It has been designed in a way the money is sent through MMT known as EVC+, Saad Service and Sahal Service, that means you'll receive your money on your mobile phone if…

Qatar fuels chaos in Somalia - Farmajo, Qatar's follower, refused to accept the results of Jubbaland election

Waagacusub.com - Qatar's interference in Somalia threatens a civil war, since Jubaland election results confused Hamadeen.

Hormuud Telecommunications is a company identified as being one of the single largest financiers of al-Shabaab

Al-Shabaab is responsible for many terrible terror attacks. A couple of examples are: the 2015 attack on the University of Kenya in which 147 people were killed and 79 others were injured, and the attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi in which 59 innocents were killed and 150 were injured. In other…

Hormuud Telecom's Economic Terrorism Along Kenyan Border Targeting Safaricom Plc

On 10th July 2018, the Somali terror group attacked and destroyed a strategic 'mediated cross-border communication –base transmission station (BTS) mast owned and operated by Safaricom, in Hamey, Garissa County of Kenya. The terrorists also attempted to attack the area administration police camp,…