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Civilians caught in the middle of fighting between government forces and armed opposition militia in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu have started to flee their homes, as disagreements over President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed’s extension of his own term takes on increasingly violent forms.
Somalia’s president has signed a contentious law passed by the lower house of the parliament that extends his term for two more years.
Somalia’s army has killed scores of al-Shabab militants after the al-Qaeda-linked Takfiri terrorist group attacked two key military bases in the country’s southwest.
Nearly three-quarters of Somali families lack safe drinking water as drought looms across the country and depletes wells, raising the risk of hunger as crops fail and livestock dies, UK-based charity Save the Children said on Monday.
A car packed with explosives rammed into a popular restaurant in Somalia's capital on Friday night, and police said at least 10 people were killed and more than 30 wounded.
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.