Wednesday  3,Sep 2025 {HMC}    – The Governor of Banadir Regional Administration and Mayor of Mogadishu, Dr. Hassan Mohamed Hussein (Muungaab), today received the Turkish Ambassador to Somalia, His Excellency Alper Aktas, at Mogadishu City Hall during an honorary visit.

Dr. Muungaab welcomed the Ambassador with fraternal protocol and emphasized the longstanding importance of Turkey–Somalia relations in supporting the reconstruction, security, and development of the capital city.

He underscored Turkey’s pivotal role since 2011 in humanitarian assistance, as well as the continuation of a strategic partnership that includes infrastructure reconstruction, military training, counter-terrorism, social service development, and major projects such as the establishment of a satellite base.

The Mayor pledged that the Banadir Regional Administration remains committed to facilitating Turkish investment and development initiatives in Mogadishu. He further expressed the municipality’s interest in building cooperation and exchanging experiences with major Turkish cities to enhance essential services such as sanitation, road networks, sewage systems, firefighting, and emergency response.

Ambassador Alper Aktas reaffirmed his country’s steadfast and unconditional support for Somalia’s state-building, peace-building, and development efforts. He also expressed Turkey’s commitment to assisting Somalia in advancing its democratic agenda, particularly preparations for the One Person, One Vote elections in Mogadishu and across the regions.

The meeting reinforced the strong partnership between Somalia and Turkey, highlighting shared priorities in development, governance, and the well-being of Mogadishu’s residents.

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Wednesday  3,Sep 2025 {HMC}   Somalia’s Defense Minister Ahmed Moallim Fiqi met Tuesday with senior Serbian officials in Belgrade to discuss strengthening bilateral cooperation, particularly in security and defense.

Fiqi held talks with Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić and the Director of the Security and Information Agency, Vladimir Orlić. The meetings focused on enhancing collaboration in internal affairs, security, and the exchange of expertise, according to officials.

The Somali minister also met with Serbian Defense Minister Bratislav Gašić. Both sides emphasized the importance of deepening ties and building a strategic partnership.

Somalia and Serbia have longstanding relations rooted in the Non-Aligned Movement, dating back to the Cold War. The two governments say they share a mutual interest in advancing cooperation in defense, security, and governance.

Sorce HIiraan Online .

Wednesday  3,Sep 2025 {HMC}  A former asylum seeker wants the government to send him back to his home country Somalia because he believes it is “not safe” living in a market town in Warwickshire.

Yusuf Ali Hamud arrived in the UK two decades ago to seek asylum, but after a criminal conviction for a serious assault, he was stripped of his right to work.

“The country is not safe,” the 50-year-old told Sky News’s Shamaan Freeman-Powell. “But my country [Somalia], now, I’m safe. I want to go back.”

“The Home Office, they are ignoring me,” he said.

He said if he didn’t have the right to work or refugee status in the UK, “why am I here?”

Mr Hamud said he didn’t want to “come here to eat and sleep, like [a] baby” and would rather return to his home country which has been gripped by an ongoing civil war since 1991.

Data from a league table published earlier this year shows there were 19,244 foreign offenders awaiting deportation at the end of 2024, a rise from 17,907 when the Conservatives left office in July and 14,640 at the end of 2022.

Asked about Mr Hamud’s case, the Home Office told Sky News it cannot comment on individual cases, but said it always seeks to ensure the removal of those who have committed serious crimes in the country, whether that’s through enforced deportations or voluntary returns.

Under plans yet to come into force, the government has said it will deport foreign criminals immediately after sentencing.

A few years ago, the number of asylum seekers in Nuneaton was in the single digits, but the figures have since grown to 247 by June this year.

The latest figures show there are 19 asylum seekers per 10,000 residents, placing Nuneaton 87th in the country in terms of concentration.

Nuneaton has become a flashpoint for anti-migrant unrest after two men, reported to be Afghan asylum seekers, were accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl.

A Sky News interview with Zahin, a 32-year-old businessman, was interrupted by a group of women who shouted and swore at the camera.

“You’re trying to rape our kids,” shouted one of the women. They were accompanied by children and one held a pint of lager.

“That’s the issue with having youse [sic] in our country, you’re raping our kids,” one woman shouted.

Zahin, who relocated to Nuneaton from Malawi when he was six years old, asked the women: “What you teaching them kids?”

He later said he believes he was targeted because the women assumed he was Muslim and added: “For them to accuse us of a crime, that’s unfair, that is unjust.”

“I love this town,” he said.

Source Hiiraan ONLIne