Somalia has begun the second phase of its military offensive against al-Shabab fighters.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says his government wants to eliminate the al-Qaeda-linked armed group within five months.
The country has deployed 12,000 soldiers and clan-based fighters to central Somalia.
Al-Shabab fighters have been withdrawing from towns,
but, as Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi reports, they are still able to carry out attacks.
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I wish peace for my country.
Everybody’s wins again lol
Afghan 2.0 Marches on
That is what you like, but in reality, Somalis are not Afghanis.
Alshabaab is past and Somalia 🇸🇴 will be prosperous once more insha allah.
Somalia is not Afghanistan
Somali people are not pashtun people
And
Remember
Daliban and al shabaab are not same
Somalia will be Somalia forver
No one can change our flag
There is a difference, people in Afghanistan want the Taliban, in Somalia Al Shabab is unwanted! They are not like the Taliban but like Al Qaida!
Somali has brave President not like former guy who never go front line
HSM is aiding and abetting terrorism. Why does Alshabaab have more weapons than it did at the beginning? HSM is a known AS founding member. Whom are you fooling here.
Lol…the same guy who ran away from his shoes after a few bullets were fired while he was demonstrating. Kii kabtiisa ka cararey oo ilmihii yaraa luuqa ku jiirey sow ma ahan. Geed kafuleysan Xassan Shiikh Soomaali kama dhalan. Deereeyaa odayga..ma duufaan baa…😂😂😂😂😂
@Hussein Cabdiraxman Who’s in exile now and the rest of his life ? Coward Farmaajo will never be allowed to come back to Mogadishu again.
@Raghe Danan who is arming Alshabaab now. Farmaajo is way above your class of Mooryaans, Ahlu dam, give my daughter a job etc types. Farmaajo is a class apart. Respect that status…that neither you nor your cheap give-my-daughter a job president.
@Raghe Danan …..can ever attain. You are cheap hungry mooryaans who were raised from the illicit revenues of Isbaaro. Dufow, ma kaftami kartid xattaa…please tend to your donkeys and eat your falfaliir, this discussion is way above your 12 tense cheap English.
But no wiping out the illegal ZIONIST western, Christians euro flop nato india quad & FRANCES/UK &, NA LED TERRORISM ACT TO recolonized abusers as usual.. thieves/PIRATES DRUGS WARLORDS to rape abusers Marches on. & injustice Marches on.. since 80s & beyond .
Everybody wins again… Allah’s akbar & all Zelenskyy led terrorism act to WAR CRIMINALS f Marches on
RIP GADDAFI REGIME’S. Real African & GLOBALISM rises again.
La Ilaha Illallah.
This looks the fight Between Islam & kufr
Somali 🇸🇴 army and plus forces of the land togather are going to win war swiftly.
Be ready to see somalia 🇸🇴 without khawaarij, we appreciate the support from Turkish government as well as our international friends.
Somalia 🇸🇴 with president HSM will be free soon insha allah
Alshababa… supported by France.
People like YOU in France you mean
🤣
@BT7274 France now has a terrorist link in Africa. I just hope you are not one!
Subhanallah
You are crazy 😂😂 subxanallah
If I am a Somali, I am very happy to see that the government and the president are sincere in fighting terrorism.
@Yaxye Mohan Adeer Shabaab horraan u liqney shimbiryahey. Wax qabso , jareer ja futadiisa kasoo bax oo xinniyo isu yeel. Mar dambe na reer Puntland hala kaftamin caaq yahow, adoo lahaysta ah miyaad ila kaftami kartaa? Diifka iska tir agoon yahow, oo hooyada iyo walaasha Alshabaab iyo AMISOM kaxoreeyso.
@Yaxye Mohan
so sincere he gave high ranking government positions to terrorist like mahad salad, robow and many more
Free NFD people
@Raghe Danan free NFD
@Yaxye Mohan Free NFD people
NO MORE alshabaaab
Who’s behind al-shabab (Sponsors)? Aluta continua ✊🏿
Iran, Qatar (both deny this, though, despite the evidence), Eritrea, and Houthis.
It’s Saud money
It’s Qatar funded
@Peter Clarkecan you provide evidence? Most Somalis know that Alshabaab is funded by the west. The same way the US admitted it founded Alqaida, they founded also Alshabaab
Is true
Don’t worry rebrand confirmed or same ALCIADA MOSSAD ISIS/IDF K PKK/YPG proxy & Indian led terrorism act to recolonized abusers or REBRANDED is COMING. Via classic Japanese cars & machines guns again
We’re happy to hear such good news, but there’s a saying in English which says “sounds too good to be true,”. The president and his close advisors plan is not to eliminate Alshabaab but overthrowing Presidents of Galmudug, Southwest and Hirshabelle. This is the hidden agenda
But no wiping out the illegal ZIONIST western, Christians euro flop nato india quad & FRANCES/UK &, NA LED TERRORISM ACT TO recolonized abusers as usual.. thieves/PIRATES DRUGS WARLORDS to rape abusers Marches on. & injustice Marches on.. since 80s & beyond.
The dark side of this story is that the ‘maawosley’ are. Not some people that is sure of there about some of them are al shabaab themselves and target back or disclose the army whereabout, it happend, i think this is the worst ever strategy made by somali government
Farmaajo kaa dhex hadlaya!
Al Jazeera say al shabaab terrorist group
They are member of Alqeada terrorist groups and they are terrorist
What you mean Armed groups
Make your voice clear
Or it will be clear that Qatar supports terrorist groups
Peace for world
Peace for my country 🇸🇴✊
Wow
We are in somali need peace
People should know terrorist have no religion
Yes . We believe that if we are Somalis
This is like Afghan government 🤣🤣😂😂 all made up stuff and invisible solders which can collapse tomorrow when African Union leave the country
Yea right, you guys been claiming tht for 15 yrs now. Ya can’t do it
Way to go somalia ❤🎉 🇸🇴 🇸🇴 🇸🇴 🇸🇴 🇸🇴
From your brother in Djibouti 🇩🇯
InshaAllah Greater Somalia in sight ♥
Very true bro we are seeing great somalia is back
Greater Somalia 🇸🇴 never lose hope
I heard Somalians don’t claim to be afrikans but in my point of view these people are pure black
BS. There is nothing called black or white. Those are human inventions. We are created as nations and tribes with unique pigments that are neither white nor black. We are Somalis, not black, not white not yellow or whatever other made up category. I wonder what African or European means…is that a geographical categorization? Well if it is so, then Somalis are African, American, European, middle Eastern and Asian too. For we ljve in all those geographical areas. We are not Arab or Israeli, or Egyptian or all the other descents . We are an ancient people with a unique culture, language, skin colors, hair and all. Another of Allah’s creations called Somali. Why do we have to be anything else?
@Hussein Cabdiraxman if that’s the case then why are we called Somali? Is that not another human invention? Black is term that describes people of African descent with black skin.. it’s that simple. We are also called African because we are indigenous to that continent, not America/ Europe/ Asia.I don’t know why people like you act obtuse trying to sound smart making it more than what it is. We fit that description of black and African also Somali if you want to be more specific. And we are proud of our colour, culture and heritage!!🇸🇴
@Afro Goddess Somali is not a human invention. If that’s what you believe then you really don’t know your history. If you want to be called black , then go ahead. But don’t force your unfounded bias down our throats. You fancy jareer, then be a jareer
@Afro Goddess Ok you fancy jareer…be a jareer by yourself. Stop saying we…you dont represent anyone of us. Jareer yahay …jareer jeceel ka hayo
@Hussein Cabdiraxman whew the self hate it all makes sense now. I pray god heals your heart from all this hate and fills it with love because it isn’t beneficial to anyone especially you. Have a blessed day brother!
Islamic terrorists don’t stand a chance going forward.
We will overcome al shabaab
If all the presidents and kings of the ruling nations lead their subjects in war, am pretty sure there will be less war fought around.Bravo for the Somali president, hope victory will be on your side l.
Thanks ❤✌️
__ /0__ U.S. need WAR, as PIECE means good trade, and good trade means leadership of China and India. U.S. is not able to compete with China and India, supported by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Brasil. For U.S.. the only way out is to unleash THIRD WORLD WAR to destroy the possibility of peaceful trade and peaceful development for China and India. ___/0___
The need to go after alshabab even in the desert 🐪
People talk a lot about this topic. But you hear nothing of what actually caused this problem at the first place. Somali people need reconciliation, good governance, less corruption at the government level. The president doesn’t even talk about a whole other war going on in the North cause it’s too messy. Saying I am fighting with al shabab is like saying I am ok with gay people. It means nothing except some political correctness. Somalia needs a president with a mission and vision. What good is it to throw Alshabab away, but the fighting continues among tribes
Even the claim of defeating AS is straight BS , the FGS president has been arming his clan and setting up the national army for AS attacks, hence empowering the AS immensely.
My heart is crying 😭😭😭😭😭 why always muslim vs muslim
We have to unite 🥺🥺
Can u plz correct ur words its not about muslim to muslim its about somali muslim goverment Vs israel packed group ( alshabab) Know the truth ✌🏾🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴✌🏾
@Somalia🇸🇴I don’t know about that but I know that al-shabab is a islamic terrorist organisation
Alshabab are terrorist not Muslim 😢
What muslim? Yaab
It’s not Muslim vs Muslim
It’s Muslim vs murtadeen
we all know on the ground things are different.alshabaab are carrying out attacks everyday both in kenya and somalia
Yes but their attacks decreased by 70 percent and their capabilities reduced , gains are being made and that is what matters the most! Once the arms embargo is lifted by end of year drones and heavy weapons will be used to eliminate them !
Who long will these people from Mogadishu without government struggling who is guardiang rhe capital is Amisom so sorry Reer mooryan state 😅
As a somali i hope we get out the terrorists sooner than later but when that happens we have an even bigger problem to deal with namely clan mentality which has destroyed our country.
CLANS USED TO FIGHT HERE AND THERE BEFORE BUT LOCAL POLICE PRESENCE AND COURTS WILL MAKE IT LOWER AND CLANS CAN HAVE AGREEMENTS IN PLACE ITS SUCH SMALL INCIDENTS AND IT WILL END BUT THE TREAT OF THE TERRORISTS IS IMMENSE
Our president is out 2 months of his office to front.
❤❤❤😢😢😢
Congrats the government and Somali National Army. Keep going. without fight terror will never go away ❤
Good luck to Somali 🇸🇴 forces from India 🇮🇳
Thanks 👍 Peace to our oldest trading partner in Asia which is India ✌️
Somali soldiers and its tribal allies are taking Alshabab into unprecedented turn. Remote villages and mountains area trenches were liberated, Somali people are very pleased with ocean warriors to defeat this unfaithful terrorist. We pray for guys. The victory is near.
Long live SOMALIA🇸🇴❤
We will defeat them insha-allah☝️
Go on ground and get facts right. Alshabab will not leave somalia soon.with support especially from America and Yemen
This has now become a straight PR campaign to cover up for the embarassing losses that the corrupt FGS government is facing in the hands of Al Shabaab. With all the aid and international support the FGS is a failure. This is just an attempt to allocate international funding to a fake war. A war against AS that happens to empower the AS with more guns and even armoured personnel carriers and improvised fighting vehicles
How come that Puntland with no AMISOM support , Somali -only units , with no air support has destroyed AS in Northeastern Somalia? In our view from the North , the FGS is either incompetent or indirectly arming Al shabaab
One puntland acts independently on its security in addition Al shabab never had a large foothold in the north while the south where the capital is has been The main tragedy with it’s geographical biodiversity and instability as most southern state are not Clan homogenous, comparing the north to the south is not a great example as the South even though the 1999 civil war has been more stable then the South.
@TheMystixCube Do you really know what you are talking about? Or you think you know what you are talking about. Please say something substantial . You have no expertise in terrorism and Somali society. FYI do some research before embarassing yourself online. Do you have any references for your bogus claims? Do you know that Puntland is more diverse than the south. Everybody has been displaced to Puntland and you are just cant admit that your mooryaans are cheap and can be bought by Al shabaab , Al faciis and so on, for a few shillings. That your injustice to the smaller clans is fighting back with whatever name they can come up with to revenge the attrocities you have been committing since 1991.
It’s because PL has a comprehensive security policy and traditional/ political elites which are all united against external influence. Sadly not the case in the south.
Hassan is arming shabaab . His fake war. He is looking for money to steal
@Daid Ibrahim Adamno puntland dont have Halane feeding Al with guns n money
Al Shabaab has become heavily armed since this so called terrorist campaign began. Why are you covering up the facts on the ground?
Where are all the soldiers Farmajo trained? With such a huge budget and international support why is the FGS arming and using clan militias from the Presidents tribe? After all these years , its a shame that Al Jazeera is resorting to fake news
Because DANAB is a CIA run unit that is serving the U.S in terrorizing Somalis
We all know Hassan Sheikh Mahamoud sprinted faster than the Jamaican record holder when a few gunshots were sprayed in the air during his presidential campaign. You really expect us to believe that he is at an active frontline? His cowardice is legendary and highly publicized. He needs a heart transplant to become brave
@Abdiwali Mohamud I am a proud Darood. You have a problem with that?
This Alshabab keyboard warrior knows his time of terror is over in Somalia 🇸🇴
@Hussein Cabdiraxmanwhy are you hating on our president who are doing good we haven’t seen progress with other presidents they have only been corrupted forget you clan we are all Somalis we should support those who are doing good
@Bashka Yare you are an Alshabaab slave and so is your community.
@Warfa Ali I am sorry , you are such an amateur at propaganda. And you are ashaming yourself with these stupid claims you are making. I will leave the corruption index to the international community and observers on the ground. If you were not a cheap Jahil, you would read the shameful corruption reports published on the current FGS administration. Actually he is the most dumb corrupt president, he doesnt even know how to steal public funds (which is a skill) , everytime he robs stupidly, he gets caught. A guy who brings his unqualified daughter and illiterate family members and friends to conduct critical national duty, is akin to treason and should be imprisoned . He is not a president. First find out the meaning of the word before you abuse its usage.
I don’t understand what the fight is about . Politics or relign ? Either 3ay nobody is talking so I guess that war is the only way for this country ofpeasant to sort it out . And nobody wins . Good luck in your future wars on what ever this is ?
Screw yourself ! They are fighting a Terror group which you support clearly and it’s a way richer country than your failed state
Allah bless to somalia ❤
I can bet he hasnt spent 48 hours on any frontline
❤ from 🇺🇬
It is very very….important to completely destroy these type of terrorist groups in Somalia for bright future of next generation.
Somalia the land of beauty. ❤
Amisom just rests in their camps defensively, now as we are thankfully appreciatively we need them out.
How can an Amisom soldier get paid 1000 and more while the revived lion of Africa gets paid 100?
And yet 2 operations from Amisom in a year 🤔 Stop playing and get out.
Tbe soldiers are well trained in Eritrrae as now clearing Alshebab fighters
I wonder if Somalia has a Orthodox Church and if the Somali region of Ethiopia and Kenya will reunite with Somalia
@Abdinasir ALINorth Eastern Kenya should reunite with Somalia
@meeeowg yes but we have problems for black Kenyan colonial. NFD should be FREE for long time
@Abdinasir ALI so many Som refugees are in Kenya, once Somali is safe, many will feel the need to repatriate home before identity is lost. No place like home.
@meeeowg your a lier’s FREE NFD people.NFD people is refugee?who own wajer , Somali matihid hadadan aqaon NFD.gumaysiga ay ku nol yohin
@meeeowg they under Black Kenyan colonial .NFD Free NFD people
The west are sponsoring alshabab via some gulf countries, only if the arab countries stop destabilising there muslim brothers in the world will we find peace. These guys destroying sudan while they already put somalia on its knees and support Ethiopia and others with nothing they will benefit from
GO SOMALIA❤❤❤❤❤
The president of somalia is al shabaab himself
This is the kind of leadership Somalia has needed. Not the kind who live in hotels in other countries.
Is this joke or what🤣🤣🤣🤣on the ground are far away what al jazeera said.
GOOD FOR THE SOMALI FORCES!✊ Al Shabab are the enemies of the Somali ppl. All of these groups are nothing but use full idiots used to destabilize Muslim nations.
I knew it that for Somalia and the long-term future a second Hassan sheikh was necessary, but a second farmaajo would mean nothing but death, dictatorship and deterioration of the fragile rebuilding effort of somalia. h.h president hassan sheikh mohamudm guul iyo goobonimo 💝
Its only in your crazy mind. Farmaajo o ly served 5 years and didnt loot like hassan sheikh. Ita us decide to get fid of alshabaab who they created
@Ladanfarmaajo was one the main people who was funding alshabab and trying to divide the people so the fighting against Alshabab can stop.
We need neither Hassan sheik humiliated us when he gave our girls to saudis to be maids when it was illegal to do we before to respect us. We need a true righteous man
IM SO HAPPY TO SEE MY PRESIDENT AND P M ARE IN THE FRONT LINE IN WAR ZONES 😂😢😮😅❤❤❤
As a Kenyan, am really glad to hear this, I wish our government will give Somalia some of our G3 rifles and 7.62mm rounds we have as surplus as a sign of brotherhood.
@Warfa Ali An average Kenyan and Ethiopian wants Africa to unite and defend itself from the west but some stupid Somalis with clans mindset are so short sighted all they want is some pieces of Kenya and Ethiopia that are basically deserts, no wonder Somalia is the most corrupt and poorest country in Africa, and I hope that Somali clans mindset doesn’t spread to the rest of Africa, any way I still stand with my stand, Kenya really needs to figure out how it will help Somalia to evade arms embargo that the west put on Somalia so they can’t be able to stabilise.
@Simon Nzioki they aren’t desserts the Ethiopian part the Ogaden region which is named after the Somali clan which my mother is actually part of that region alone is half of Ethiopia and the region in Kenya known as The Northern Frontier District are around 30 percent of Kenya the reason for Al Shababs rise was because of Ethiopia honestly why do you think that there are arms embargo on Somalia and the ones who engineered it was Kenya and Ethiopia because they know if we get peace that we will dominate the region.
@Simon Nzioki The Northern Frontier District came into being in 1925, when it was carved out of the present-day southern Somalia. At the time under British colonial administration, the northern half of Jubaland was ceded to Italy as a reward for the Italians’ support of the Allies during World War I .Britain retained control of the southern half of the territory, which was later called the Northern Frontier District (subsequently renamed the North Eastern Province).
On 26 June 1960, four days before granting British Somaliland independence, the British government declared that all Somali-inhabited areas of East Africa, Greater Somalia should be unified in one administrative region. However, after the dissolution of the former British colonies in the region, Britain granted administration of the Northern Frontier District to Kenyan nationalists despite an informal plebiscite demonstrating the overwhelming desire of the region’s population to join the newly formed Somali Republic,and the fact that the NFD was almost exclusively inhabited by ethnic Somalis.
In December 1962, at the urging of the Somalia government, the British appointed a commission to ascertain the desires of the inhabitants of the Northern Frontier District regarding its future. The commissioners reported that the inhabitants of five of the six administrative areas of the Northern Frontier District favored union with the Somali Republic.According to the Somali Republic, unification was favored by 88% of the inhabitants. Early in 1963, Britain assured Somalia that no decision would be made regarding the Northern Frontier District without prior consultation with the Republic. However, Britain did not follow the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the inhabitants of the Northern Frontier District and cede the territory to the Somalia Republic. Instead, on 8 March 1963, Britain announced the creation of the North East Region out of the Northern Frontier District. Unsatisfied with this solution, the Somali Republic severed diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom on 18 March 1963.[9]
On the eve of Kenya’s independence in August 1963, British officials belatedly realized that the new Kenyan regime was not willing to give up the Somali-inhabited areas it had just been granted administration of. Led by the Northern Province People’s Progressive Party (NPPPP), Somalis in the NFD vigorously sought union with their kin in the Somali Republic to the north.
In response, the Kenyan government enacted a number of repressive measures designed to frustrate their efforts in what came to be known as the shifta period Somali leaders were routinely placed in preventive detention, where they remained well into the late 1970s. The North Eastern Province was closed to general access (along with other parts of Kenya) as a “scheduled” area (ostensibly closed to all outsiders, including members of parliament, as a means of protecting the nomadic inhabitants), and news from it was very difficult to obtain. A number of reports, however, accused the Kenyans of mass slaughters of entire villages of Somali citizens and of setting up large “protected villages”—in effect concentration camps. The government refused to acknowledge the ethnically based irredentist motives of the Somalis, making constant reference in official statements to the shifta (bandit) problem in the area.
Although the main conflict ended in a cease-fire in 1967, Somalis in the region still identify and maintain close ties with their brethren in Somalia. They have traditionally married within their own community and formed a cohesive ethnic network.
@Warfa Ali From what I know people from Mogadishu, Wajir, Isiolo and Mandera were asked if they wanted to be Kenyans or Somalia and most of them said they preferred being Kenyans, besides Kenya will be a middle class country at per with South Africa, if this places weren’t part of our country but anyway they are Kenyans and I love them regardless of whatever place or religion they follow.
@Simon Nzioki you got lied to it is very well known that there was election held and nearly 90 percent wanted to be part of Somalia and the British were the ones who oversaw it but the national Kenya government denied the election and started to massacred Somali villagers and the Somalis rebelled and was even winning until Kenyas nationalist government got help from the British they even put Somalis into detention camps.
Fake war on shabaab 😂 Hassan wants some money from the world .
Cuqdadba ku haysa wlle Somali ayan xuman laga wayin
Aan gatan istaagno ciidamadeena qaranka, Al kebab wakhtigooda wuu dhamay. Guul iyo gobanimo 🇸🇴💪🏽
Dowladaha kuwaan tuugada hubka siinaya waa qaldanyihiin kuwaan beenayaal waaye sax ma aha in la taageero
Aad Baan ugu faraxsanahay hala sifeeyo nimankaan dhuuntay noo galeen .
Another forever war. Similar how the former Afghan govt and U.S couldn’t eradicate the Taliban
Al Shabab will chew these guys up after African Union forces withdraw next year…
united against the Islamist terorisms
Thanks god afweyene,s younger brother is gone somalia is heading the right direction
Marka shacabku ka sio wada hor jeedsado laga raynaa ciidanka qaranka guulaysta
Qofka shacabka ee garabsiiya halaga bilaa qabaa
You look so beautiful in this ideas
And whos gonna take the shares of mobile company…?
hahaha…
Masallah may Allah bless our leader who are Righteous and may Allah unite all the somalis under one banner the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said clan/tribalism will one of biggest challenges within our ummah.
War in Africa is very profitable venture, a powerful western Countries with Arms carter fueling arm conflicts in our beautiful Continent. They target venerable and weak minded, greedy individual to carry out the nefarious activities. The so called Rebel movement have no specific agenda, only just to terrorizing their own people for financial gain. Somali are resilient people, they been through a lot. They need to have peace again and continue to rebuild their Country. I have no doubt about the Somali, they will build a prosperous Somalia again, theirs entrepreneur spirit is one of it kind. My time in Holland with Somali, is still fresh in my mind, after 30 years, their love, kindness generosity toward me, have help me to achieved my life purpose. Somali are the most kindness people, that i have ever met. God bleed Somali People and Somalia
I can tell you Somali people are friendly and good hope one-day peace prevail ..peace