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A governor in Somalia’s Puntland has been killed in a bomb attack by militants from the Takfiri al-Shabab group.
In Somalia, six civilians have been killed in an airstrike by a US drone, says a lawmaker and relative of one of the victims.
History is now in danger of repeating itself. But on a much bigger scale. The worst outbreak of desert locusts in decades is currently underway in the Horn of Africa. It is the biggest of its kind in 25 years for Ethiopia and Somalia — and the worst Kenya has seen for 70 years. The impacts of the outbreak in these countries are particularly acute as pastures and crops are being wiped out in communities that were already facing food shortages.
A car bomb targeting a group of Turkish contractors exploded on Saturday in Afgoye, northwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu, police said.
A car bomb explosion at a checkpoint near the parliament in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has left at least four people dead and 10 others injured, police say.
One American military service member and two US Department of Defense (DoD) contractors have been killed in an attack on a Kenyan base used by US troops.
Militants of the Somalia-based al-Shabab terrorist group have launched an attack against a military base used by US and Kenyan forces in neighboring Kenya, with conflicting accounts of the aftermath.
The al-Shabab terrorist group has launched two separate attacks on a US military base and a European Union military convoy in Somalia.
Somali 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.
The mayor of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu and several other officials have been wounded in an explosion that hit local government headquarters.