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A suicide bomber blows himself up outside the Afrik Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, while gunmen storm the hotel and open fire. Five people are killed in the al-Shabaab attack, including a former military general; ten civilians are wounded. The three other attackers are shot dead during a gun battle with security forces.
2021-01-31

President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed fires Taabit Abdi Mohamed as mayor of Mogadishu and replaces him with his information minister, Abdirahman Omar Osman.
2018-01-21

Al-Shabaab militants storm a Somali Youth League hotel in Mogadishu. At least 14 are reportedly killed.
2016-02-26

Al Shabaab militants have stormed two hotels in Somalia's capital Mogadishu killing at least 10 civilians.
2015-07-10

Five soldiers and a military officer are killed in an explosion in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
2013-12-27

Somali poet, playwright and songwriter Warsame Shire Awale is killed in Mogadishu.
2012-10-30

Turkish Airlines begins a service to Somalia, the first regular service to the capital Mogadishu except regional East African flights to operate in twenty years.
2012-03-6

Fighting breaks out in the Somali capital Mogadishu between militants and government troops.
2011-12-8

Somali and African Union forces make gains against al-Shabaab rebels in Mogadishu.
2011-07-2

A roadside bomb and mortar attack in the Somali capital Mogadishu kill at least 14 people and injure several others.
2010-08-31