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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

A United States Air Force airstrike kills two al-Shabaab jihadists in Buloburde, Hiran, Somalia. The United States Africa Command says that the terrorists were attacking Somali soldiers.
2022-10-25

Somalia receives their first shipment of 300,000 doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine from the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative.
2021-03-15

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

A car bomb claimed by Al-Shabab kills five people including the driver and wounds around ten others outside Somalia's Parliament, Interior Ministry, and Presidential Palace buildings in Mogadishu.
2018-03-25

Somali police say at least seven are dead after clashes as Somali and African Union troops pushed back al-Shabab extremists from Afgooye, a town near Mogadishu.
2016-10-18

The United Kingdom reopens its embassy in Somalia 22 years after it closed as a result of the chaos after the fall of Mohamed Siad Barre's government and subsequent Somali Civil War.
2013-04-25

Police in Kenya fire tear gas amid clashes between rioters and ethnic Somalis in the capital Nairobi, after a bus bombing yesterday killed nine people.
2012-11-19

Thousands of asylum seekers from Ethiopia and Somalia are stranded in camps in northern Mozambique after measures adopted by the government to restrict their movements.
2011-05-12

Somali group Al-Shabaab publicly executes two teenage girls, claiming they were spies.
2010-10-28