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Gunfire, rocket fire and mortar blasts have been reported in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, where opposition parties launched a protest rally despite a coronavirus lockdown enforced by the government.
Several people have been killed and many others injured after a car bomb exploded outside the Somali parliament compound near the presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu.
A US warship and an aircraft have launched an operation to withdraw American forces out of Somalia, the Pentagon declared this week as it carries out a Defense Department order to transfer hundreds of troops to other locations.
Somalia has accused Kenya of arming local militiamen on the border to attack its security forces as tension rises between the two African neighbors.
Somalia has announced it is cutting diplomatic ties with neighboring Kenya over what it said was Nairobi’s interference in its political affairs.
US President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to withdraw nearly all of the hundreds of American troops deployed to Somalia, which is part of a global pullback by the outgoing president that will also see him drawdown forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Protesters in Somalia's capital Mogadishu gathered on Thursday for a second day to protest against French President Emmanuel Macron and the printing of cartoons attributing to Almighty's Last and Greatest Messenger to mankind, Prophet Mohammad (blessings of God upon him and his progeny) in France.
At least 13 Somali soldiers have been killed after members of the Takfiri al-Shabab terrorist group attacked army troops northwest of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, a military official says.
A car bomb explosion outside a military base in southern Somalia has left three Somali soldiers dead and a US officer seriously injured.
At least 16 people have been killed when extremist insurgents attacked a seaside hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, a government spokesman says, with a witness describing the scene inside the compound as "like hell."