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A commercial tanker is attacked by suspected Somali pirates off the coast of Mogadishu, Somalia.
2025-11-3

Former Somali presidents Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed denounce the administration of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud for its management of public land in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, accusing it of violating constitutional safeguards and forcibly displacing impoverished families.
2025-08-19

Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble announces that Somalia's presidential election will be held within 60 days following a two-month deadlock triggered by incumbent president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed's refusal to leave office beyond the expiration of his term on February 8. This deadlock has also resulted in violent public protests in Mogadishu.
2021-05-27

In a surprise result, former Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed is chosen as President.
2017-02-8

Somalia's Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali accuses al-Shabab of preventing people from leaving the region in search of food as central government condemns militants from blocking aid workers.
2011-07-23

The Somali Prime Minister, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, resigns.
2011-06-19

Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, Prime Minister of the United Nations-backed Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, calls on UN agencies basing themselves in Kenya for safety reasons to move to Mogadishu within three months, citing the presence of UN agencies in "more dangerous" cities such as Kabul and Baghdad.
2011-04-5

The Prime Minister of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed names a new Cabinet with doubts that the parliament will approve his choices.
2010-11-12

Somali President Sharif Ahmed appoints Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed as Prime Minister of the Transitional Federal Government.
2010-10-14

Somalia's presidential palace is targeted by Al-Shabab militants in a mortar attack.
2010-05-23