Tag: security operations

New video footage from Baidoa shows the Federal Government of Somalia’s minister of livestock, Hassan Hussein Mohamed (Eelay), entering the city in bulletproof vehicles provided by Turkey. The move signals heightened official presence in the strategic hub.

Somalia’s intelligence agency arrested a five-member Al-Shabaab cell planning attacks in Mogadishu, seizing explosives, weapons and vehicles in a coordinated raid that underscores ongoing militant threats to the capital.

Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre is set to visit Las Anod for the inauguration of North Eastern State President Abdikarim Firdhiye, amid heavy security and efforts to reinforce federal authority.

South West State’s October 14 Brigade seized 10 landmines in the Number 50 area, blocking an alleged Al-Shabaab plot to bomb Mogadishu amid tightened pre-election security.