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Al-Shabab launches attacks against US airbase, EU convoy in Somalia
Sep 30, 2019 12:21The al-Shabab terrorist group has launched two separate attacks on a US military base and a European Union military convoy in Somalia.
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Somali pirates release ill Iranian hostage captured in 2015
Sep 22, 2019 06:05Somali pirates have released a sick Iranian hostage they captured more than four years ago due to his urgent need to medical care, a humanitarian group says.
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Explosion rocks Somali capital, injures Mogadishu mayor
Jul 25, 2019 06:18The mayor of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu and several other officials have been wounded in an explosion that hit local government headquarters.
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About 26 dead as hotel attacked in Somalia
Jul 13, 2019 11:45The death toll from the attack on a hotel in Somalia's port city of Kismayu has risen to 26, with Kenyans, Americans, a Briton and Tanzanians among the dead, Jubbaland region's president said on Saturday.
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Ten killed as roadside bomb hits Kenyan police vehicle near Somali border
Jun 15, 2019 16:58At least 10 Kenyan police officers have been killed after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by militants struck their vehicle near the Somali border.
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UN warns of severe hunger in Somalia due to drought
Jun 06, 2019 06:57A senior UN humanitarian official has warned about severe hunger in Somalia, which has been suffering from one of the worst droughts in decades.
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Ex-minister among six killed in car bomb attack in Somalia's Mogadishu
May 22, 2019 19:01At least six people, including a former Somali foreign minister, have been killed as a car bomb exploded near the presidential palace in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.
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Somalia busts UAE-linked spy network, arrests agents
May 11, 2019 04:31Somali authorities have reportedly arrested a spy network working for the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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US military admits to killing civilians in Somali airstrikes
Apr 06, 2019 12:37The United States military has admitted for the first time that it killed two Somali civilians in one of its airstrikes in the African country's central El Burr region.
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Car bomb attack claims lives of 15 people in Somali capital
Mar 28, 2019 17:43At least 15 people have been killed and several others injured in a car bomb blast on a busy street in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, officials and witnesses say.