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Heavy fighting erupted on Monday on the outskirts of Baidoa, the second largest city in southern Somalia, between federalist forces…
The constitutional crisis is over where federal powers end and regional autonomy begins.
The standoff represents a significant escalation in the ongoing power struggle between President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s administration and regional state authorities.
Somali troops stormed Gen. Mahad Abdirahman Aden’s residence after he was fired for insubordination.
Federal officials say they are initiating a transition process to replace the administration in the southwest state which has been up in arms against this prospect.
Hundreds of passengers were stranded at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu on Tuesday after flights to Baidoa, a city 250 kilometers North West of Mogadishu, were halted.
Operatives and their international allies say they’re weakening the insurgents’ strangehold of central Somalia.
Forces of the Somali National Army are working to secure the Xawaadley area in the Middle Shabelle region as part of a new military operation, named Operation Badar, targeting insurgent strongholds, the Somali Defense Ministry said on Thursday in a statement
The operation aims to degrade the operational capacity of ISIS- Somalia, a faction that remains a key target for US counterterrorism in the horn of Africa
Several command positions, weapons depots, and military equipment caches belonging to the insurgents have been destroyed.