Tag Archives: SOMALIA

Six civilians were killed and 10 wounded in a six-hour siege by Islamist Al-Shabaab militants at a beachside hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, police said Saturday. “Six civilians were martyred in the attack… and 10 others were wounded. Three brave members of the security forces were martyred,” the Somali Police …

Less than 20 months before the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia formally exits the stage, officials in Mogadishu say they are willing to prolong the stay of the regional force, signaling the challenge of beating down Al-Shabaab. The East African has learned that Mogadishu has launched shuttle diplomacy to …

The UN children’s agency, Unicef, says the number of pregnant women and girls who are suffering from malnutrition has soared by a quarter in the last two years in countries like Somalia, Ethiopia and Afghanistan. Unicef estimates that more than a billion women and adolescent girls across the world are …

Two car bombs killed several people and flattened houses in central Somalia’s Hiraan region on Wednesday, security officials and witnesses said. “We were awoken this morning by two huge explosions,” Ahmed Nur, a local elder, told Reuters. “We have seen many houses leveled to the ground. At least 10 people …

The US Department of State is offering a reward for information that would lead to the arrest or disruption of three Al-Shabaab leaders said to be responsible for attacks in Somalia, Kenya and the neighbouring countries. Anyone with information on any of the three could receive a reward of up …

Deadly attack on Mogadishu military training camp comes a week after twin explosions in the city killed at least 116 people. A suicide bomber has detonated his explosives near a military training camp in Somalia, killing at least five people and wounding 11 others, according to the state-run SONNA news …

On Monday, July 18, the Jubba Airways plane crashed and rolled over on the runway of the Mogadishu airport before taking fire. The dramatic video shows the plane upside-down on the edge of the runway, burning fiercely, spewing dense smoke. When the incident happened, the aircraft was traveling domestically from …

At the age of 14, Samira Mohamed Abdirahman left Somalia in order to escape war in her country and to also start life afresh. She found a new home in Sweden where she stayed for more than 20 years. With the seeming return of calm life in Somalia, Samira joined …

At least 10 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in Somalia on the eve of a local election. The blast happened in the central city of Beledweyne, at a restaurant popular with politicians and local officials. Reuters news agency says one of the people killed was a …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTAFPimage captionThe Somali government has been fighting al-Shabab for more than a decade Twenty-one men have been executed in Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland after they were convicted of being members of the Islamist militant group al-Shabab. They were sentenced by a military court in Galkayo and shot by …