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U.S. Africa Command conducted an airstrike against al-Shabaab terrorists, killing two, after they "attacked partner forces in a remote location near Libikus, Somalia". [208] August 9; U.S. Africa Command conducted an airstrike against al-Shabaab terrorists who "attacked Somali National Army Forces near Beledweyne, Somalia". [209] [210] August 14
On 28 September a car bomb outside a restaurant killed seven people. [324] On 29 September Somali sources reported 30 people — 12 soldiers and 18 insurgents — killed in an al-Shebaab attack on an SNA base in Barire, 47 km southwest of Mogadishu. al-Shebaab sources reported 30 government soldiers killed and 11 vehicles captured by them. [336]
This is a list of notable Somalis from Somalia, Somaliland, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia as well as the Somali diaspora This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The Isaaq genocide (Somali: Xasuuqii beesha Isaaq; Arabic: الإبادة الجماعية لقبيلة إسحاق), [7] [8] also known as the Hargeisa Holocaust, [8] [9] [10] was the systematic, state-sponsored genocide of Isaaq civilians between 1987 and 1989 by the Somali Democratic Republic, under the dictatorship of Siad Barre, during the Somaliland War of Independence.
At least 27 people died, most children, and 53 were injured after remnants of an old bomb exploded in the Murale village in the Janaale area of the eastern Lower Shabelle region. [15] 20 June Brig-Gen Mohydin is appointed as the Chief of the defense force Somali National Army (SNA), replacing Maj- Gen Odowa Yusuf Rage. [16]
Police in Somalia said Saturday that 32 people died and 63 others were wounded in an attack on a beach hotel in the capital, Mogadishu, the previous evening. Al-Qaida’s East Africa affiliate, al ...
The Unified Task Force (UNITAF) was a United States-led, United Nations-sanctioned multinational force which operated in Somalia from 5 December 1992 until 4 May 1993. A United States initiative (code-named Operation Restore Hope), UNITAF was charged with carrying out United Nations Security Council Resolution 794 to create a protected environment for conducting humanitarian operations in the ...
By October 2026, the mission's functions are expected to fully transfer to support Somalia’s development goals. [12] The Mission has its headquarters in Mogadishu and also has offices in Kismaayo (in the state of Jubaland), Hargeisa (in the self-declared Republic of Somaliland), Garowe , Baidoa and Belet Weyne (Hirshabelle). [5] [13]