Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
October 16: A coordinated operation against Al-Shabaab begins between the Somali military and the Kenyan military, as Kenyan troops cross over into Somalia after having met with Somali military officials. [66] October 20: Two women, Amina Farah Ali and Hawo Mohamed Hassan, both from Rochester, Minnesota were arrested for sending money and ...
By February 4, SNM's control extended to the entire north of Somalia, and all prisoners and pro-government ex-soldiers were released and ordered to return to their regions of origin (mainly Ethiopia), except for Hawiye ex-soldiers and ex-civil servants, who were permitted to remain in Burco since their lives would have been at risk if they had ...
February 7 - A senior Somali military officer was assassinated in Mogadishu, the Somali capital. [22] Five Somali soldiers were killed and four others wounded in a roadside explosion in Afgooye district in Lower Shabelle region. [23] February 10 - Al-Shabaab militants attacked Afgooye town, about 30 km southwest of Mogadishu. Three civilians ...
October 1; Nine al-Shabaab militants killed and one wounded by airstrike 40 kilometers Northwest of Kismayo. October 6; Airstrike kills one al-Shabaab militant in Kunyo Barrow. October 12; Airstrike in Harardere killed around 60 al-Shabaab militants. It was the largest strike in Somalia since November 2017. [133] [134] [135] October 14
Somalia's president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed visited the Puntland region earlier, hoping to improve strained relations between the federal member states of Puntland and Galmudug and the federal government. He was also asked by traditional elders from the Tukaraq area to visit the contested area and unconfirmed reports suggested that he ...
30 January 2009: Ethiopia withdraws from Somalia; December 2010: Hizbul Islam merges with al-Shabaab; August 2011: Recapture of Mogadishu by TFG and AMISOM forces; October 2011: Kenya invades southern Somalia to push al-Shabaab from the Kenyan border; September 2013: al-Shabaab attack the Westgate Mall in Kenya; August 2014: Operation Indian ...
Buulo-Mareer is a strategic town in the region of Lower Shabelle, and was captured by African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) forces during Operation Indian Ocean in August 2014, after being an Al-Shabaab stronghold since November 2008.
Events in the year 2018 in Somalia. Incumbents. President – Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed; ... This page was last edited on 8 October 2023, at 22:27 (UTC).