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Self-Defence strike in support of Somali National Security Forces in Malayle, Lower Juba Region, killed three al-Shabaab militants according to an AFRICOM press release. [179] [180] April 14; Airstrike managed to kill Abdulhakim Dhuqub, a high ranking ISIS-Somalia official, near Xiriiro, Iskushuban District. [181] July 27
Various international and local diplomatic and humanitarian efforts in the Somali Civil War have been in effect since the conflict first began in the early 1990s. The latter include diplomatic initiatives put together by the African Union, the Arab League and the European Union, as well as humanitarian efforts led by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UNICEF, the ...
The official also said that five to 10 people were killed in the airstrikes. However, a Somali official countered that US airstrikes killed 31 civilians. [40] At least four more AC-130 airstrikes were said to have hit Ras Kamboni. [41] Somali politician Abdirashid Mohamed Hidig toured the area and spoke of 50 killed in the attacks. He said ...
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 ...
Died while covering a US operation before the Battle of Mogadishu (1993). He was working as a journalist for Reuters. [118] [119] [120] 12 July 1993: Anthony Macharia (Kenyan) Mogadishu, Somalia: Died while covering the same operation as Eldon. He was working for Reuters on the sound production. [118] [121] 12 July 1993: Hos Maina (Kenyan ...
By Abdiqani Hassan BOSASO, Somalia (Reuters) - At least 15 people have died in Somaliland after heavy rains caused by tropical cyclone Sagar which landed in the Horn of Africa over the weekend.
At the start of April 1992, General Aidids Somali Liberation Army coalition began its final major offensive to push the Somali National Front out of the southern regions. [2] According to UNOSOM advisor John Drysdale: The famine was a combination of drought and a seven-month military occupation of the area by three divisions of Siad Barre’s army.
On 19 March, the Somali Army captured Jamale town from al-Shabaab, with support from the US military. [ 187 ] On 31 May, the Somali military shot dead approximately 18 al-Shabaab militants and injured several others in an operation conducted in the southern Lower Shabelle region.