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A Starsky Aviation Fokker 50 aircraft veers off a runway at Aden Adde International Airport to a nearby beach in Mogadishu, Somalia, due to a technical error. All 55 people on board survive. 2026-02-10
Five people are killed and five more injured in a bomb attack in El Wak town in Mandera County, northern Kenya, near the border with Somalia. 2024-04-29
The United States Department of Defense announces that ten Al-Shabaab members were killed today by airstrikes near Afmadow, Jubaland, Somalia. 2023-07-9
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
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
Stephen O'Brien, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, reports that the world is experiencing its most severe humanitarian crisis since World War II, with over 20 million people suffering from severe lack of food security in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, and Northeast Nigeria. 2017-03-10
Eleven people are killed in bomb attacks outside a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu. 2014-01-1
Clashes between the Ras Kamboni Movement and pro-government militia leave at least 18 dead in the Somali port of Kismayu. 2013-06-8
The World Food Programme cuts aid rations to Somalia, amid a shortfall in donations. 2011-05-21
Gunmen abduct British and local Save the Children aid workers from a compound in western Somalia. 2010-10-15