The UN Interim Envoy for Somalia called for more financial support from the Security Council, requesting additional support for the $1,6 billion 2024 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan, which is only 37% funded

Egypt has offered to deploy peacekeeping troops in the country as part of a security partnership that is taking shape as the mandate of a long-standing African Union peacekeeping force comes to an end

Turkey will start deepwater oil drilling operations from April 2025 off the Somali coast, announced Somali Minister of Petroleum and Minerals, Abdirisakh Omar Mohamed

The militant group Al-Shabaab is now 18 years old, as it emerged in 2006 as an alternative to the degradation of the state; born out of a network of Islamic fundamentalist movements, it joined al-Qaeda in 2012 and counts between 7.000 and 12.000 soldiers