At least 10 people, including soldiers and civilians, have been killed after armed group al-Shabab carried out a suicide attack at a police station in the city of Afgoye. Captain Abdullahi Ali, a senior Somali military officer, told Associated Press news agency on Wednesday that troops have now fully secured[…]
The death toll from Tuesday’s car bomb attack targeting two hotels popular with officials near the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 22, police said on Wednesday. The attack was claimed by the Islamist militant group al Shabaab. The blast partially destroyed two hotels, including one[…]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and counterparts from eight African nations meet in Nairobi on Monday to discuss ways to prevent South Sudan from sliding back into civil war and advance a political transition in Somalia. Kerry arrived in the Kenyan capital late on Sunday – after a two-week[…]
At least 10 people were killed when two suicide car bombers attacked the local government headquarters in Somalia’s Galkayo town in the semi-autonomous Puntland region on Sunday, police said, and the al Shabaab group claimed the attack. “We have confirmed 10 people dead including civilians and security forces,” said Ali[…]
Somalia al Shabaab militants stormed into a base used by Ethiopian troops after ramming a suicide car bomb into the entrance on Thursday in the latest assault on soldiers serving with the African Union’s AMISOM force, the Islamist group said. The base at Halgan town lies in a region of[…]
An American air strike on a Shebab training camp in Somalia killed more than 150 fighters planning an imminent attack on forces from the United States and its regional allies, the Pentagon said Monday. While the US military regularly conducts operations targeting the Al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Somalia, Saturday’s raid had[…]
Fighters from the al-Shabab group have attacked a base for African Union peacekeepers in southwestern Somalia, blasting their way into the compound and exchanging fire with peacekeepers, a Somali military official told Al Jazeera. Dozens of al-Shabab fighters on Friday assaulted the military base, which is run by Kenyan troops[…]
Al Shabaab radicals attacked an African Union (AU) base in southern Somalia early on Tuesday, the group and residents said, with unconfirmed reports that dozens of AU soldiers were killed. The al Qaeda-aligned radicals said one of their fighters rammed a car bomb into the base and then gunmen poured[…]
South Africa’s hosting of a summit of African leaders will give it the chance to repair relations with the rest of the continent, after an outbreak of xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals that left seven people dead. While President Jacob Zuma deployed the army to halt attacks on African migrants[…]
At least four people were killed and 10 others wounded when a car rammed into a busy restaurant and exploded in the Somali capital Mogadishu, local sources told Al Jazeera. The blast on Tuesday targeted the Bonoodo restaurant located near the city’s Central Hotel, which was the scene of a[…]
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