Somalia

A Global War On Children

May 25, 2026 Nick Turse, Counter Punch. Educate! Children, Somalia, Trump Administration, Wars and Militarism

“It’s got no anything,” President Donald Trump said of Somalia in a recent xenophobic rant. “All they do is run around shooting each other.” As is true of so much with this administration, every accusation is also a confession. U.S. troops have been shooting Somalis since the early 1990s, after lame duck President George H. W. Bush launched an ostensibly humanitarian intervention there that would be embraced by his successor, Bill Clinton. By June 1993, U.S. and U.N. troops had begun attacking various targets in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, linked to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, who had helped overthrow dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.

Somalia Blocks Israeli Ships At The Bab al-Mandab Strait

May 2, 2026 Lyn Neeley, Workers World. Resist! Bab al-Mandab Strait, Blockade, Israel, Somalia

Between Somalia and Yemen lies the Bab al-Mandeb Strait connecting the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea. It is a crucial passageway for the majority of shipping between the Gulf of Aden / Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, which leads to the Suez Canal. On April 22, Somalia announced a ban on Israeli-linked ships traveling through the channel. Yemen has had an ongoing blockade of Israeli ships at the Bab al-Mandeb Strait since November 2023. Following the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Yemen’s Ansarallah government, in support of the Palestinians, closed off the strait to any ships taking supplies to Israel.

From Mogadishu To Minneapolis

March 8, 2026 Elizabeth Schmidt, Africa is a Country. Educate! Immigrant Rights, Minnesota, Somalia, US Intervention

The Trump administration’s crackdown on Somali refugees, immigrants, and US citizens of Somali descent in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the home of some 80,000 people of Somali heritage, has been headline news in recent weeks—especially since the Immigration and Customs Enforcement killing of two American citizens—both white—who witnessed ICE brutality. The presence of so many Somalis in Minneapolis and the special antipathy the Trump administration has for them has roots that go far deeper than the president’s hostility toward Minneapolis Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, one of his most forceful and outspoken critics.

Israel’s Recognition Of ‘Somaliland’ Is Destabilizing Somalia

February 22, 2026 Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Horn of Africa, Israel, Somalia, Somaliland

Since 1991, a reactionary element in "Somaliland" has been attempting to secede from Somalia. Those tensions were raised on December 26 when the Zionist entity many call Israel recognized this effort. Its intent is to have a place to which it could permanently expel Palestinians from their rightful homeland and, along with the US, gain a stronger military hold in the region. The entire international community has condemned this move, with the exception of the US. AWB spoke with longtime independent journalist Ann Garrison about the situation and the ramifications of “Somaliland” secession going forward.

US/Israeli Plans To Destabilize Africa And Asia: Somaliland Recognition

January 12, 2026 Sara Flounders, Workers' World. Educate! Africa, foreign interference, Israel, Somalia, Somaliland

The Israeli state’s aggressive efforts as a proxy for U.S. imperialism continue in its assigned role to destabilize all of West Asia. Increasingly. Israel is also a serious U.S. partner in efforts to fragment and destabilize African countries. This was shown when on Dec. 26 Israel formally recognized the breakaway Somali region of Somaliland. The formal recognition took place only two days before Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s departure for extensive meetings with President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. The timing was the clearest signal that the recognition was not just Netanyahu’s unilateral decision.

Debunked Far-Right Claims In Minnesota Lead To Anti-Somali Hate

January 8, 2026 Colton Baldus, People's World. Educate! Far Right, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Minneapolis, Minnesota, Somalia

Minneapolis, Minn.—The Trump administration and MAGA are pulling out all the stops in their attacks on Minnesota—the Nick Shirley daycare fraud “investigation,” a pause on federal child care funding, the “largest ever” ICE enforcement effort, and unprecedented racist attacks on Somali immigrants. They’re all part of a continued effort by the right to push the deportation agenda in a Democratic-governed state, defund programs that working people rely on, and flip Minnesota to the Republican column in the 2026 midterm elections.

Yemeni Resistance Leader Vows To Target Israeli Presence In Somalia

December 29, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! forced displacement, Israel, Palestinians, Somalia, Somaliland, Sovereignty

The leader of Yemen’s Ansarallah resistance movement, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, warned in a speech on 28 December that any potential Israeli presence in Somaliland will be considered a “military target” for the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF). The speech came as several African, Arab, and Muslim states condemned Israel’s decision last week to recognize the sovereignty of the separatist Republic of Somaliland, which Somalia views as one of its federal states. Israel’s recognition of Somaliland is “a hostile stance targeting Somalia and its African surroundings, as well as Yemen and the Red Sea and the countries on its shores,” Houthi said on Sunday.

We Are All Somalia

December 16, 2025 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Donald Trump, Immigrants, Minnesota, Somalia

On two recent occasions, Donald Trump, president of the United States, engaged in a racist meltdown against the African nation of Somalia and its citizens who migrated to the United States. In the first instance, he called Somalia the “worst country on earth” and claimed that Somalis “destroyed” Minnesota and turned it into a “hell hole.” Not long after, while speaking to the press at a cabinet meeting, he referred to a member of congress, Ilhan Omar, as “garbage.” He also used the term to describe everyone coming from her home country of Somalia.

The Never Ending US Killing Fields Of Somalia

September 27, 2025 Tunde Osazua, Black Agenda Report. Educate! AFRICOM, Military Intervention, Somalia, US Imperialism

In the remote, arid landscapes of Puntland and the contested central regions of Somalia, the distant hum of a Reaper drone is the sound of a recurring nightmare. It is the herald of an explosion, of anonymous death delivered from the sky, and of a conflict that has been meticulously engineered to be endless. The United States, under the second Trump administration, has not started a new war in Somalia; it has simply intensified a long-standing project of imperial domination, cloaking it in the familiar, tattered rhetoric of counterterrorism. This escalation is not a deviation from U.S. policy but its purest expression: a neo-colonial endeavor designed to keep a nation fractured, dependent, and perpetually in the crosshairs.

Somalia Resistance Targets US AFRICOM Base Over Gaza Genocide

September 13, 2025 Betsey Piette, Workers' World. Resist! Africa, AFRICOM, Al Shabaab, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Somalia, US Imperialism

The Somalia resistance group Al-Shabaab issued a statement on Sept. 4 claiming responsibility for an attack on U.S. military forces in retaliation for U.S. support for Israel in the ongoing genocidal war in Gaza. The U.S. forces were at a base located near Kismayo Airport in southern Somalia. Blogger Muhammad Od reported in a You Tube video on Sept. 5: “According to a statement by the movement, quoted in the local Baidoa Online website, the operation targeted the ‘American camp’ in response to the war in Gaza, and resulted in ‘heavy losses among U.S. soldiers and the destruction of military vehicles.’” Od noted that in its X account, AFRICOM acknowledged the attack but claimed it was “indirect” with no serious damage.

Power Shift In The Horn Of Africa: Somalia Recognizes SSC-Khaatumo

April 28, 2025 Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Africa, AFRICOM, Ansarallah, Horn of Africa, Somalia, Yemen

The geopolitical dynamics of the Horn of Africa region are always volatile, but more so now than ever. The world’s attention is most drawn to the region by Ansar Allah’s disruption of crucial maritime routes in the Red Sea in support of Palestine and Donald Trump’s despicable proposal to remove and dump the entire population of Gaza in war-torn Sudan, Somalia, and/or Somaliland, the unrecognized Somali secessionist state. Both the US and Israel have considered recognizing secessionist Somaliland as a state in order to turn it into a US/Israeli military enclave on the Gulf of Aden, near the mouth of the Red Sea and just across from Houthi-controlled Yemen.

US War On Africa Rages On With Somalia In The Crosshairs

February 17, 2025 The Black Alliance for Peace. Educate! Africa, AFRICOM, Donald Trump, Somalia, Trump Administration, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

The new Trump administration has wasted no time continuing the U.S. war on Africa. Just one month into his second term, the U.S. has launched at least six airstrikes in Somalia’s Puntland region. While AFRICOM and the Somali government claim these strikes are “authorized” and therefore legal under international law, this so-called authorization is nothing more than a hallmark of neo-colonial governance. Comprador regimes installed and maintained by Western imperialism do not exercise genuine sovereignty but instead serve as facilitators of foreign domination.

How The United States Destabilized The Horn Of Africa

October 7, 2024 Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Horn of Africa, Somalia, US Imperialism

The Horn of Africa and its key waterways are the geostrategic interface between Europe, Africa, and Asia. They have been the site of more destructive foreign intervention and global power competition than any other region on the continent. It seemed as though consequent strife and instability might be coming to an end in 2018, when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, and then Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, aka Farmaajo, signed the Joint Declaration on Comprehensive Cooperation Between Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea , promising that the three countries would work together to promote regional peace and security.

Ansar Allah Are Not Working with Al-Shabaab

June 28, 2024 Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Al Shabaab, Propaganda, Somalia, Yemen

On October 19, 2023, Yemen’s Ansar Allah began launching missiles and armed drones at Israel, demanding an end to its war and blockade on the Gaza Strip. More significantly, they began seizing and launching aerial attacks against dozens of merchant and naval vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden that were carrying cargo to and from Israel. In Arabic, Ansar Allah means “Supporters of God.” It is a Shia Islamist political and military nationalist organization that emerged in Yemen in the 1990s. The group is commonly but disrespectfully referred to as “the Houthis,” a term which has a derogatory tribalist connotation.

U.S. AFRICOM Airstrikes Feared To Have Killed Two Cuban Doctors

February 28, 2024 Netfa Freeman, The Black Alliance for Peace. Resist! AFRICOM, Bombing, Cuba, Doctors, Somalia

The National Network on Cuba, The Black Alliance for Peace, and Lowcountry Action Committee strongly condemn the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) airstrikes in Somalia reported to have killed 2 Cuban doctors. We demand the U.S. release all information about the bombing to Cuba and the victims’ families. Cuba has deployed more than 600,000 health workers to 165 nations over the last six decades on medical missions. Two Cubans serving in Kenya, Dr. Assel Herrera Correa, a specialist in general medicine, and Dr. Landy Rodriguez Hernandez, a surgeon, were kidnapped there in 2019 and held in Jilib, southern Somalia.

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