The US Embassy in Mogadishu denied it’s begun pulling staff out of Somalia because of an increasingly unstable situation in the eastern African nation.
“Recent reports that the US Embassy in Mogadishu has begun withdrawing essential staff are false,” the embassy said Sunday on its X account.
Last week, the U.S. embassy in Somalia has warned Americans that they are tracking “credible information” regarding potentially imminent terror attacks “against multiple locations in Somalia including Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport,” officials said.
The U.S. embassy in Somalia’s capital city of Mogadishu said that all movements of embassy personnel have been canceled until further notice in a statement released on March 4.
The embassy warned that potential methods of attack include, but are not limited to, car bombs, suicide bombers, individual attackers and mortar fire.
Turkish Airlines and Qatar Airways have suspended all flights to and from Mogadishu following an urgent terror warning from the US Embassy in Somalia. The alert, issued on March 4, 2025, cited a potential imminent attack targeting multiple locations, including Aden Adde International Airport (MGQ), Somalia’s busiest air hub.
A Level 4 travel advisory from the U.S. State Department, which strongly warns against travel to Somalia due to threats including terrorism, crime, and civil unrest, has been in effect since July 2024 and remains unchanged.
