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Al-Shabaab jihadists kill 35 people in a double car bombing outside a politician's home and a market in Mahas District, Hiran, Somalia.
2023-01-4

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

An al-Shabaab car bombing kills four people and injures at least 20 others near Afgooye, Lower Shabelle, Somalia. [http:--english.alarabiya.net-en-News-world-2020-01-18-Car-bomb-targeting-Turkish-contractors-explodes-in-Somali-town.html (Al Arabiya)]2020 Afgooye bombing
2020-01-18

A car bomb near an International Committee of the Red Cross office wounds three people in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2018-03-28

A car bomb in Somalia kills at least six people at the gates of the presidential palace in Mogadishu.
2015-09-21

Somalia's police and intelligence chiefs were sacked after Al-Shabaab's attack on the Presidential palace yesterday.
2014-07-9

U.S. magazine "Foreign Policy" releases its index of "failed states", with the editor labeling Somalia as an "unequivocably failed state".
2011-06-20

The United Nations calls for the international community to increase support to Somalia as the country approaches the twentieth anniversary since the start of its civil war.
2011-01-24

Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke resigns as Prime Minister of Somalia following an impasse developing with President Sharif Ahmed over a new constitution.
2010-09-21

Somali forces from the semi-autonomous region of Puntland storm a hijacked Panamanian-flagged cargo ship, capturing the pirates and freeing the crew.
2010-06-3