Sources: BBC
Somali federal government-appointed commissioner of Bardhere District Mohamed Ilyas Caagane is killed after Somali National Army forces are defeated by Jubaland forces in Gedo, Somalia. 2025-02-5
Following a defense pact signed by Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi earlier this month, Egypt deploys two C-130 aircraft carrying military officers and equipment to Mogadishu, Somalia, as the initial phase of a significant deployment that will see up to 10,000 Egyptian soldiers stationed in Somalia. 2024-08-27
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
Somalia receives their first shipment of 300,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine from the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative. 2021-03-15
A bomb kills 17 people and injures 28 others in Mogadishu, Somalia. 2019-07-22
The United States launches airstrikes against Islamic State in Somalia for the first time. The United States Africa Command says "several terrorists" were killed in the strikes, which took place in coordination with Somalia's government. 2017-11-3
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
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 Somali parliament approves Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed as Prime Minister. 2010-10-31
Somali President Sharif Ahmed appoints Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed as Prime Minister of the Transitional Federal Government. 2010-10-14