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Death toll in twin car bombings in central Somalia claimed by the Al-Shabab terrorist group has risen to 35, including eight members of a single family, reports cited a senior police officer as saying on Wednesday.
Suspected al-Shabaab militants have attacked a Somali military base in the central Galgaduud region days after the area was captured by government forces from the Takfiri terrorist group.
Scores of al-Shabab terrorists have been killed in Somalia as the government intensifies its clampdown on the extremist takfiri outfit following a recent terrorist attack in the Somali capital city Mogadishu.
At least 100 people have been killed in two car bombings outside the Education Ministry in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, the country's president says.
The Somali police say an attack by militants on a hotel in the port city of Kismayo is over and all four gunmen have been killed.
Nine people, including senior regional officials, have been killed in two bomb attacks in Beledweyne in central Somalia, police officials said.
Nearly four million children are at risk of dropping out of school due to the drought in the Horn of Africa, the United Nations has warned, amid fears that it could lead to “a lost generation”.
The United Nations warned Monday that Somalia was on the brink of famine for the second time in just over a decade, and that time was running out to save lives in the drought-stricken country.
This is a completely under-the-radar news story, one that was curiously absent from the headlines in all of the major newspapers.
Somali forces have ended a deadly siege by al-Shabab Takfiri militant group at a hotel in the country’s capital which left at least 13 civilians dead.