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A report by the Blue Marine Foundation found that fishing vessels from the European Union were illegally harvesting fish in the exclusive economic zones off the coasts of India, Somalia and Mozambique even as the stocks of yellowfin tuna were on the verge of collapse.
2022-05-30

Somalia opens its first public oxygen plant in Mogadishu to treat patients infected with COVID-19. The new plant was purchased from Turkey by a local foundation for $240,700.
2021-09-30

At least ten people have been killed in a shootout between jailed Al-Shabaab militants and security officers at a prison in Mogadishu, Somalia. An investigation is under way into how the militants obtained weapons, with some reports suggested that an inmate disarmed a warden and then a group of them raided the armoury.
2020-08-11

Mortar rounds are fired in a neighborhood in Wadajir District, Somalia, killing three civilians. Al-Shabaab is suspected of being behind the attack.
2017-04-7

A Somali asylum seeker sets herself alight in Nauru to protest her detention on the island by Australia, one week after an Iranian asylum seeker did the same thing.
2016-05-2

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

At least six civilians and four militants are killed in attacks on two hotels in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.
2015-07-11

Eleven people are killed in bomb attacks outside a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
2014-01-1

At least 21 people die in a fight between an armed group and African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2010-11-17

Somali journalists walk out of the GBC radio station seized by Islamist rebels after refusing to take orders.
2010-09-23