No less than 76 persons have been confirmed dead from the high-impact blast that struck Mogadishu on Saturday morning, AFP reported. Director of private Aamin ambulance service, Abdukadir Abdirahman Haji,…
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Victory At Last: Al-Shabaab Militant Leader Surrenders To AU Forces In Somalia
by Damilare Salami March 9, 2017The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on Thursday confirmed that the leader of the militant group al-Shabaab has surrendered to government forces in Baidoa town in southern Somalia. The…
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Kenyan soldiers killed 57 Islamist militants during a fight in southern Somalia on Wednesday, a military spokesman said. Kenyan troops under the African Union command used artillery and helicopter gunships…
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Somalis Go Agog As Former US State Worker Emerges As President
by Damilare Salami February 9, 2017Thousands of Somalis fired guns in the air, cheered atop military vehicles and slaughtered camels on Thursday to celebrate the election of anti-corruption campaigner Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed as president. Protected…
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Somali lawmakers voted for the country’s president on Wednesday, gathering in the safety of Mogadishu’s heavily fortified airport after months of delays and following threats from Islamist insurgents bent on…
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The Islamist group al Shabaab said on Friday its fighters killed dozens of Kenyan troops when they attacked a remote military base in Somalia the previous day, a claim the…
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13 Dead As Islamist Militant Ram Car Bomb Into Somali Hotel
by Damilare Salami January 25, 2017Islamist militants rammed a car bomb into the gate of a hotel and stormed inside, killing at least 13 people in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police said. Gunfire rang…
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Al Shabaab Kill Four Soldiers, Injure Many In Fresh Mogadishu Attack
by Damilare Salami January 24, 2017About four soldiers were killed and five wounded on Tuesday when a roadside bomb that Islamist militant group al Shabaab said it planted exploded outside a military camp in a…