Sources: BBC
At least six people are killed and ten others are injured after a fresh outbreak of tribal violence in the Galgaduud region of Somalia. 2025-07-17
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
The 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index names Somalia as the most corrupt country in the world, followed by South Sudan and Syria, while Denmark was again named the least corrupt country. The United States drops out of the top 20 least corrupt countries for the first time since 2011. 2019-01-28
Prime Minister of Somalia Abdi Farah Shirdon is voted out of office by the Federal Parliament of Somalia from a vote of 184-65. 2013-12-2
A policeman is killed and 11 others are injured in a grenade attack on a church in the Kenyan town of Garissa near the border with Somalia. 2012-11-4
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
Six foreigners including two Britons and an American are jailed for lengthy terms in Somalia after the seizure of a plane containing $3.6 million in ransom for pirates. 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 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