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

A roadside bomb explodes in Dusmareb, Somalia, killing twelve agents of the National Intelligence and Security Agency, including its local head.
2021-02-7

A knifeman kills two elderly people after storming their home and then tries to attack police officers on a highway in Brisbane, Australia. The attacker, who is shot dead by police, has been identified as a 22-year-old man inspired by the Islamic State. He was arrested in early 2019 when he tried to join the group in Somalia.
2020-12-17

Al-Shabaab militants attack a military base in Baladweyne, Somalia, killing 21 people. Fifty-one militants also died during the attack.
2020-11-30

Somalia expels Nicholas Haysom, the most senior United Nations diplomat in the country, after accusing him of "acting like the country's ruler".
2019-01-3

Stephen O'Brien, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, reports that the world is experiencing its most severe humanitarian crisis since World War II, with over 20 million people suffering from severe lack of food security in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia, and Northeast Nigeria.
2017-03-10

A truck bomb detonates at an Ethiopian military base in Somalia.
2012-01-25

Fifty-three African Union peacekeepers were killed in fighting in Somalia.
2011-03-4

Somali gunmen release a British security consultant for Save the Children after six days in captivity.
2010-10-20

Islamist al-Shabaab insurgents in Somalia seize control of 2 independent radio stations in the capital Mogadishu.
2010-09-19