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At least 55 people are killed and 155 others are injured in fighting between the Dir and Marehan clans in central Somalia.
2024-06-10

Eight people are killed when a military plane crashes in Lamu County, Kenya, near the border with Somalia.
2023-09-19

Off the northern coast of Somalia, Somali pirates hijack the "Aris 13", a United Arab Emirates-owned oil tanker, kidnapping eight Sri Lankan crew members. This is the first hijacking of a large commercial vessel in five years.
2017-03-14

Jeh Johnson, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, warns Americans to take a threat by Somalia-based al-Shabab to attack shopping malls in the US, United Kingdom, and Canada seriously.
2015-02-22

Militants attack Somalia's presidential palace in Mogadishu for the second night running.
2012-03-20

Kenyan Army soldiers, supported by aerial forces, continue their advance into Somalia, approaching an al-Shabab-controlled town 120 km from the Kenyan border.
2011-10-18

The United Nations World Food Programme prepares an airlift to Mogadishu in Somalia to help relieve the 2011 Horn of Africa famine. [http:--www.france24.com-en-20110727-un-readies-aid-airlift-mogadishu-0 (AFP via France24)]date=August 2019
2011-07-27

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 al-Shabaab Islamist militant group in Somalia says a ban on aid groups working in parts of the country remains.
2011-07-22

2011 Horn of Africa famine: The United Nations declares a famine in southern Somalia.
2011-07-20