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US forces conducted 15 airstrikes in Somalia during 2016. March 5; A massive U.S. airstrike involving multiple aircraft, manned and unmanned, targeted a training camp near the town of Raso (Buloburde District) killing an estimated 150 al-Shabaab militants. According to U.S. military officials, the American warplanes struck a large gathering of ...
The African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) will serve as the African Union's new peacekeeping and stabilization operation in Somalia. [1] Succeeding the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), that operated from 2022 to 2024, AUSSOM began on 1 January 2025 and is headed by Mohamed El Amine .
Various international and local diplomatic and humanitarian efforts in the Somali Civil War have been in effect since the conflict first began in the early 1990s. The latter include diplomatic initiatives put together by the African Union, the Arab League and the European Union, as well as humanitarian efforts led by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UNICEF, the ...
For example, on Oct. 11, DHS extended TPS status to illegal foreign nationals from El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, and Sudan through March 9, 2025. Those registered through the program ...
The Jubaland crisis is an ongoing armed conflict in the autonomous Jubaland state of southern Somalia.It resulted from a constitutional dispute between Somali Federal Government led by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre versus Jubaland, following the re-election of Ahmed Madobe as the state's president for a third term.
The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) is a former African Union transition and drawdown mission from peacekeeping operations in Somalia. Formerly the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM), which began in 2007 and operated until 2022, the goal of ATMIS was to fully transition security operations to the Somali National Armed ...
The NISA is also closely intertwined with the Somali Armed Forces and regularly cooperates with them. The agency was established in January 2013 by the new Federal Government of Somalia in place of the defunct National Security Service. [1] [3] The agency is assisted by the African Union Mission in Somalia.
The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) was a Multinational force formed by the African Union.The operation deployed to Somalia soon after the Islamic Courts Union was deposed by troops from Ethiopia during a large scale invasion in late 2006.