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Following a defense pact signed by Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi earlier this month, Egypt deploys two C-130 aircraft carrying military officers and equipment to Mogadishu, Somalia, as the initial phase of a significant deployment that will see up to 10,000 Egyptian soldiers stationed in Somalia.
2024-08-27

Thirty-eight people are killed and 212 others are injured in a mass shooting and suicide bombing by Al-Shabaab militants near the Beach View Hotel on Lido Beach in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2024-08-2

Al-Shabaab militants attack a military base outside the Somalian capital Mogadishu, with 15 soldiers reported dead.
2017-09-29

A mosque under refurbishment in Mogadishu, Somalia, collapses, killing at least 15 people and injuring around 40. Hundreds more are thought to be buried under the rubble.
2016-04-30

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

Militants attack Somalia's presidential palace in Mogadishu for the second night running.
2012-03-20

South Korea will fly the bodies of eight Somali pirates killed in a commando raid on a freighter last month from Muscat, Oman, to Mogadishu, Somalia.
2011-02-16

Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabaab threaten more attacks in Burundi and Uganda in retaliation for their participation in an African Union peacekeeping operation in the country. Meanwhile, seven people are killed in fighting in the capital Mogadishu.
2010-11-7

At least 12 people are killed in fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia, between pro-government forces, African Union troops and the Islamist militant al-Shabaab group.
2010-11-1

Police in Somalia say they have foiled an attack by Islamist militants against the seaport in the capital Mogadishu.
2010-09-11