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At least six people are killed and ten others are injured when a car bomb explodes outside a restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2024-09-28

Two people are killed and five others are injured when a vehicle carrying students hits a roadside bomb in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2022-11-3

Two Ugandan soldiers are sentenced to death and three more receive 39-year prison sentences in Somalia for killing seven civilians during a gun battle in Golweyn, Lower Shabelle, three months ago.
2021-11-14

An explosion at a khat market in Wanlaweyn, Lower Shabelle, Somalia, kills five people and injures ten others.
2018-05-10

A US airstrike in Saakow kills the intelligence chief, Abdishakur, who was also known as Tahlil, of the Somali al-Shabab militants.
2014-12-30

At least 130 people are killed in a car bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
2011-10-4

African Union and Somali troops advance on Mogadishu's Bakara market, a rebel-held area, amid intense fighting.
2011-05-22

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

Al-Shabaab militants take control of a town on the border between Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya from pro-government forces, following fighting that displaced 60,000 people.
2010-10-29

Gunmen abduct British and local Save the Children aid workers from a compound in western Somalia.
2010-10-15