Sources: Reuters
Somalia's Council of Ministers terminates all agreements between the Federal Government of Somalia and the Government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), disallowing the UAE from operating in the ports of Berbera, Bosaso, and Kismayo for their support of Somaliland. The Somaliland, Puntland, and Jubaland governments subsequently dismiss the decision. 2026-01-12
At least five Ugandan soldiers are killed and some others are injured when a military Mi-24 helicopter part of the African Union peacekeeping mission crashes near Aden Adde airport in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital. The helicopter carrying eight people had been arriving from an airfield in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia. 2025-07-2
Al-Shabaab raids Yeed and Aato in Bakool, Somalia, near the Ethiopian border. Fourteen Ethiopian police officers and three civilians are killed. 2022-07-20
The Royal Australian Navy seizes a large cache of weapons from a fishing vessel near Oman's coast, that was bound for Somalia. The Australian Navy, which patrols waters around the Indian Ocean as part of an international maritime force, said it has seized nearly 2,000 AK-47 rifles, 100 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 49 PKM machine guns, 39 PKM spare barrels and 20 mortar tubes from the stateless vessel. 20 tonnes of weaponry in total. 2016-03-7
A top level Somali al-Shabab militant with a $3m US bounty, Zakariya Ahmed Ismail Hersi, surrenders to police. 2014-12-27
Somalia's police and intelligence chiefs were sacked after Al-Shabaab's attack on the Presidential palace yesterday. 2014-07-9
Fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu leaves at least 15 people dead and 25 injured. 2010-11-30
A court in Somalia imprisons for six years and fines $500 radio journalist Abdifatah Jama Mire for the broadcast of an interview with a militia leader in Puntland. 2010-08-14
The U.S. Government charges 14 people as participants in "a deadly pipeline" sending money and fighters from the United States to the Somalian insurgency group Al-Shabaab. 2010-08-5
Fighting in Somalia's capital Mogadishu has killed 60 people since March 10. 2010-03-13