A car bomb exploded outside a popular cafe in Somalia’s capital on Sunday, killing 11 people and wounding eight others, a senior police official said. The blast struck the Aroma cafe in Mogadishu and the bomb was believed to have been detonated by remote control, senior police official Mohammed Hussein[…]
Somali troops backed by African Union (AU) forces have retaken the al-Shabab stronghold of Barawe, key to the financing of the armed group. Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi, embedded with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in Barawe, said: “Special forces are securing the city. They are having people open[…]
More than 20 combatants of the Al-Shabaab and several soldiers from Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region were killed Wednesday in fighting, officials said. Puntland security forces launched an attack on an al-Shabaab base in a mountainous area 30 kilometres east of the port city of Bosaso, Puntland leader Abdiwali Mohamed Ali[…]
At least six people were killed in a US drone attack on a convoy believed to be carrying senior al-Shabab leaders in Somalia. Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Adow, reporting from Mogadishu on Tuesday, said details of the attack near the coastal town of Barawe on Monday night remained unclear but that[…]
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