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At least six people are killed and ten others are injured when a car bomb explodes outside a restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2024-09-28

Fourteen Iranian fishermen are returned to Iran after eight years of captivity in Somalia. The men were found in Somalia by police last month and freed from al-Shabaab jihadists after negotiations between the captors, tribal chiefs and Somali elders.
2022-12-25

Ten people are killed by al-Shabaab militants at a military base in Galguduud, Somalia.
2022-11-7

Fourteen people are killed by an al-Shabaab suicide bomber at a restaurant in Beledweyne, Somalia.
2022-02-19

The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority suspends all commercial flights to Somalia for three months, days after both countries announced the restoration of diplomatic relations. No reason is given for the suspension.
2021-05-11

A regional official in Somalia says that they are working to free a Panama-flagged ship's crew that was hijacked yesterday by pirates in the first successful incident since 2017. The number of crew and their nationalities remain unclear. The ship was traveling from the United Arab Emirates to the port of Mogadishu.
2020-08-20

A Central Criminal Court judge sentences Dutch-Somali terror convict Aweys Shikhey to eight years with an extended licence of four years. Shikhey received international attention for fantasy chats with a Kenyan online about murdering David Cameron, Queen Elizabeth II, Jews, and football fans.
2018-04-6

Al-Shabaab militants take control of a town on the border between Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya from pro-government forces, following fighting that displaced 60,000 people.
2010-10-29

The African Union says its forces have captured 40% of the Somali capital Mogadishu from Islamist militants in a recent offensive.
2010-10-7

14 killed, 39 wounded in a gunbattle in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital city. [http:--www.stuff.co.nz-world-africa-3401916-14-killed-in-Mogadishu-gunbattle (Stuff)] [http:--www.hurriyetdailynews.com-wires.php?id=3671952_somalia-mogadishu-somalia-14-killed-as-artillery-gunbattle-rages-in-somali-capital-govt-troops-attack-insurgent-area (Hurriyet)]date=August 2019
2010-03-3