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Four Emirati soldiers and a Bahraini military officer are killed, while ten other people are injured, when a soldier opens fire at a military base in Mogadishu, Somalia, before being killed in the ensuing shootout. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility.
2024-02-10

An al-Shabaab suicide bomber blows himself up at a military academy in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing over 20 soldiers and injuring dozens more.
2023-07-24

One soldier is killed and six others are injured in a suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2022-09-25

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

A mosque under refurbishment in Mogadishu, Somalia, collapses, killing at least 15 people and injuring around 40. Hundreds more are thought to be buried under the rubble.
2016-04-30

A car bombing in the center of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, kills at least 10 people and injures 20 others.
2013-03-18

The Islamist al-Shabaab rebels in Somalia pull out of the capital Mogadishu.
2011-08-6

The Somali interior minister, Abdi Shakur Sheikh Hassan, is killed by a female suicide bomber at his house in the capital Mogadishu.
2011-06-10

South Korea will fly the bodies of eight Somali pirates killed in a commando raid on a freighter last month from Muscat, Oman, to Mogadishu, Somalia.
2011-02-16

At least 17 people are killed and scores more injured in a shootout between opposing government security forces in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2011-01-31