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August 29: Somali government forces backed by African Union troops battle Al-Shabaab militants in the villages of Aglibah, Janaay, Abdulle and Birta Dheer, situated between Afmadow and Kismayo. According to General Ismail Sahardiid, the commander in charge of Somali Army troops in the Lower Jubba region, over 60 insurgents died in the crossfire.
23 February – February 2018 Mogadishu attack 1 April – 2018 African Union base attack in Bulo Marer 19 May – Cyclone Sagar makes landfall, killing 31 in Somalia
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 ...
The Federal Government of Somalia is internationally recognized as Somalia's official central government. It occupies the country's seat in the United Nations, the African Union, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The Somali federal government has a Permanent Representative and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
It has occasionally highlighted its “healthcare services” in the remote villages in Puntland in its propaganda videos, showing a Somali-Canadian doctor named “Yusuf al-Majerteeni”, who died in 2018. [65] [66] By November 2019, ISS controlled the villages of Dasaan and Shebaab in Bari region. [67] The group is known to use caves as ...
The worst flooding to hit Somalia in decades has killed 29 people and forced more than 300,000 to flee their homes, the National Disaster Management Agency said on Wednesday, following heavy rains ...
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda said on Saturday it would mediate between Somalia and the breakaway region of Somaliland to facilitate reunification after a more than three-decade split.
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