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Somalia's army and allied fighters on Friday captured the town of El Buur, the al Shabaab militia's main stronghold in the country's central region, a significant breakthrough in the government's ...
The Jubaland crisis is an ongoing armed conflict in southern Somalia.Stemming from a constitutional dispute between the Somali Federal Government (led by President, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister, Hamza Abdi Barre) and the autonomous state of Jubaland, following Ahmed Madobe's re-election to serve for a third term as Jubaland's president.
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — An explosives-laden car detonated at a military facility on the outskirts of Somalia's capital Saturday and killed at least six people, four of them soldiers, police said.
Hiiraan Online (HOL) is a website dedicated to news and information about Somalia and the Horn of Africa. It was founded in 1999 to deliver news to the growing Somali diaspora and is also based in Somalia. [1] [2] [3] It is published in English and Somali and discusses Somali news and affairs.
NAIROBI (Reuters) -At least six people were killed in an explosion targeting a passenger bus travelling in a region outside Somalia's capital on Wednesday, the state news agency said. Somali News ...
6 June — Somalia is elected to become a two-year non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for the first time since 1970. [29] 8 June: Al-Shabaab claims to have captured El-Dher after a dawn attack on a Somali National Army base, resulting in 59 casualties, including two high-ranking officers. [30]
And it is easy to get hold of a gun in Somalia - even in Eyl you can pick up an AK-47 for about $1,200, a legacy of its two-decade civil war and years of lawlessness.
The Somali government claimed to have killed 47 Al-Shabaab fighters, although no bodies were presented as evidence. [3] They reported that 9 militants were killed in the first phase of the attack outside El-Dheer, followed by an ambush near Ali Yabaal village where 18 militants were killed. [ 8 ]