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Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble announces that Somalia's presidential election will be held within 60 days following a two-month deadlock triggered by incumbent president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed's refusal to leave office beyond the expiration of his term on February 8. This deadlock has also resulted in violent public protests in Mogadishu.
2021-05-27

An Al-Shabaab car bombing kills six people and injures 12 others at an army checkpoint near Somalia's parliament in Mogadishu.
2020-01-8

A suicide truck bombing at a security checkpoint in Mogadishu kills at least 79 people and injures 149 others. No group has claimed responsibility.
2019-12-28

A car bomb kills 11 people and injures 10 others in an attack on a mall in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2019-02-4

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

A car bomb blast in Mogadishu, near the Weheliye hotel in the Somali capital, kills at least 14 people and injures 10 others. Al-Shabab claims responsibility for the blast.
2018-03-22

Two car bombings near the presidential palace in Mogadishu, Somalia, kill at least 38 people. Al-Shabaab claim responsibility for the attacks.
2018-02-24

A car bomb explodes outside the President of Somalia's compound in Mogadishu claiming at least ten people's lives. Al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack.
2016-08-30

At least 16 people are killed and 55 injured in an attack on a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility.
2016-06-1

Somalia's police and intelligence chiefs were sacked after Al-Shabaab's attack on the Presidential palace yesterday.
2014-07-9