Tag: Somalia
Suicide bombers kill 5 in Somalia
At least five people were killed and several others were injured on Sunday in twin car bomb blasts at the…
13 killed as terrorists target African troops
At least 13 people were killed when two vehicles packed with explosives went off as they were driven towards a…
AU troops mistakenly kill 14 civilians in Somalia
African Union troops fighting al-Shabaab Islamists in Somalia have killed 14 civilians whom they mistook for militants. The officials and…
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Roadside bomb kills at least 18 on bus
At least 18 civilians were killed when a roadside bomb went off in Somalia, close to the capital, blowing up…
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14 killed in Somalia hotel attack
At least 14 people were killed when gunmen stormed a hotel in Somalia’s capital and took an unknown number of…
43 Islamist militants sentenced to death in Somalia
A Somalia Court on Saturday sentenced 43 Islamist militants to death in the north-eastern city of Garowe in Puntland region…
Mosque collapse injures dozens
At least 30 people were injured on Friday when a mosque packed with worshippers collapsed in the Somali capital, Mogadishu,…
Suicide bomber blows self up while hugging govt official
policd An Islamist militant suicide bomber on Thursday blew himself and a local official up in the autonomous Somali region…
7 soldiers executed for killing businessmen
Seven Somali soldiers, were executed in the port city of Kismayo on Friday after a court found them guilty of…
Somali lawmakers seek to remove president over corruption claims
Mogadishu (Reuters) – Somali lawmakers have a filed a motion to parliament to dismiss President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, accusing him…
Shabaab kill 8 officers in attack on Somali police station
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Gunmen from the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab killed at least eight officers in a raid on…
Somali military forces killed lawmaker my mistake – Govt
The government of Somalia on Sunday confirmed that military forces shot and killed a lawmaker and injured another on Saturday…
Three killed in restaurant car bombing in Somali capital
Three people were killed and six wounded in a car bomb blast outside a popular restaurant in the centre of…
Bomb blast in Somalia kills 6 UN workers
At least six United Nations workers were killed in Somalia on Monday when a huge bomb destroyed a bus in…
Somali Shebab university massacre gunmen were Kenyans
All four gunmen from Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Shebab who carried out the Kenyan university massacre earlier this month were Kenyans…
Shebab militants launch attack in Baidoa
Suspected members of Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab militants Thursday attacked a fortified area containing regional government headquarters, an airport and a…
US citizens warned after Shebab mall threat
United States homeland security chief Jeh Johnson warned shoppers in one of America’s biggest malls to be on their guard…
Gunmen shoot dead Somali lawmaker
Gunmen shot dead a lawmaker in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday, a fellow MP said, the latest in a…
Somalia’s Shebab militants execute CIA, US informers
Somalia’s Shebab militants have executed four people accused of spying for the United States, Ethiopia and the country’s internationally-backed government,…
Somalia dismisses Ebola Virus rumour
The government of war-torn Somalia has moved to reassure residents that there was no outbreak of Ebola in the country,…
Senior Shebab official surrenders in Somalia
A top leader of Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab rebels, intelligence chief Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi, has surrendered to government and African…
US ‘strongly condemns’ Shebab attack on Somalia AU base
The United States “strongly condemns” a Shebab attack that killed three soldiers and a civilian at African Union headquarters in…
US-Somali shot dead in Mogadishu
A US-Somali engineer who had come back to his birth nation to help rebuild the war-torn country has become the…
Somali troops secure key port after capture from Shebab
Somali military commanders Monday celebrated the capture of the last major port held by Islamist Shebab insurgents, as the government…
Shebab stones woman to death for polyandry
A Somali woman has been stoned to death in an Islamist Shebab-controlled part of the country for secretly marrying several…
Germany arrests three Shebab suspects returning from Kenya
Three German men were arrested at the weekend when they flew home from Kenya, accused of having joined and fought…
UN-funded African troops rape vulnerable Somalis
Internationally-funded African Union troops in war-torn and impoverished Somalia have raped women and girls as young as 12 and traded…
Somalia put on high alert after Shebab leader confirmed dead
Somalia’s government warned Saturday that the country’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels were planning a wave of retaliatory attacks after it was…
Somali president thanks US for killing Shebab leader
Somalia’s president on Friday thanked the United States for killing the leader of the country’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militants in an…
Somali Islamists shoot dead fifth lawmaker this year
Somalia’s Shebab insurgents said they had assassinated a lawmaker in Mogadishu as he left prayers at a mosque on Friday,…