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MOGADISHU —  Several people are feared dead or injured after a car bomb blast has targeted a busy restaurant near Mogadishu seaport on Friday evening, Somali police said. Police spokesman Sadaq Adan Ali told Anadolu Agency by phone minutes after the explosion that an explosive-laden car hit the restaurant, adding …

MOGADISHU —  At least two people were killed in the Somali capital on Sunday and several others – including civilians – wounded when a bomb blast targeted a vehicle carrying a local government official. The attack took place near Bal’ad, where a main security checkpoint into Mogadishu is located, Ahmed …

MOGADISHU — A bomb blast in central Somalia killed at least a dozen people on Sunday, including a local intelligence chief, Anadolu Agency reported according to officials. The attack, which wounded several others, targeted the vehicle of Abdirashid Abdi Qooje as it passed through the village of Eldhere 30 kilometres west of Dhusamareb, the …

MOGADISHU — Four soldiers serving under the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) were wounded when their helicopter crashed in Somalia’s lower Shabelle region, the mission said Monday. The incident took place at a US military base at Balidogle airfield in lower Shabelle region, located 96 kilometers (60 miles) southwest of …

MOGADISHU — The United Nations on Saturday reiterated its call for Somalia’s government to pass legislation to end the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the country. “FGM is a harmful practice that scars girls and women and endangers their health for life depriving them of their rights and denying …

MOGADISHU — At least 9 people have been killed and more than 10 others wounded after four Al-Shabaab fighters stormed Afrik hotel in Mogadishu’s KM4 area police confirm. The militants detonated a car bomb near the hotel and forced themselves inside the hotel. Somali Police spokesman Sadik Adan Ali told …

MOGADISHU — At least 16 people were killed and several wounded in three separate bomb blasts Wednesday in Somalia, police and military officials confirmed. Twelve soldiers and two civilians were killed and several others injured when a bomb targeted a vehicle carrying military personnel near Bal’ad, Middle Shabelle. Ibrahim Ali, …

MOGADISHU — Five children from the same family were killed in the ongoing fighting between federal and Jubbaland forces in Belet-Hawo after a motor shell landed in their house, medical sources have said. A doctor in the border told the media that they had collected bodies of the children who …

BULO HAWO — Heavy fighting has broken out in a Somali town near the Kenyan border between Somali forces and those from the state of Jubbaland as Somalia’s election troubles spill over into violence. Somalia’s information ministry in a statement early Monday accused Kenya-funded rebels of crossing into the town …

MOGADISHU — At least three people were wounded on Monday in a landmine explosion targeting a vehicle carrying police officials in Somalia’s capital, an official said. The attack took place in Dharkenley district of Mogadishu, according to Abukar Isack, a local police officer. The targeted vehicle was carrying police officials, …