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Somalia has strengthened security across the capital, Mogadishu amid new threats by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab terrorist group which killed scores of people on Thursday.
Heavy gunfire rang out across central Mogadishu on Friday as Somali troops battled to dislodge insurgents holed up next to a hotel they bombed the previous evening, and as the death toll stemming from that attack neared 30.
Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabab Takfiri militants have shot to death the head of Dubai-owned P&O Ports in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region, according to local government sources.
The US military claims that its airstrikes have killed 52 members of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militant group in southern Somalia.
Somalia’s UN-backed government has expelled the top United Nations envoy to the war-ravaged country, accusing him of meddling in its internal affairs after he challenged recent actions of UN-paid Somali police forces.
Somalia has executed a member of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militant group convicted of having masterminded a series of fatal car bomb attacks in the capital, Mogadishu, last year.
Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab Takfiri terrorists have claimed two deadly attacks close to the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
The US has carried out fresh airstrikes in Somalia, killing dozens of purported militants there as Washington steps up its military presence in Africa.
The United States has renewed its diplomatic presence in Somalia after almost three decades, amid controversy surrounding Washington’s military operations in the Horn of Africa country.
The United States military has reportedly conducted an airstrike in Somalia, killing nine people.