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Deadly Bomb Attack Targets Somalia’s Capital Mogadishu

Kunle Atiba — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 23:09:43 +0000

Somali police said several people have been killed after armed men detonated a car bomb and opened fire on a busy road in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. Reuters news agency said that at least three people were killed and eight others were wounded in Saturday’s attack, with the toll likely to rise. The explosion occurred on [...]

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US Citizen flees Al-Shabab after ISIL Allegiance Row

AMA — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 23:24:44 +0000

A middle-aged American citizen who had been fighting for al-Shabab in Somalia has fled the group after angering its leadership with a pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Abdul Malik Jones surrendered himself to an African Union military base in Barawe in southern Somalia on Monday morning, senior [...]

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Could a strong Somali Government defeat Al-Shabab?

AMA — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 08:00:23 +0000

Al-Shabab fighters in Somalia have struck again – managing to evade security measures to stage an attack in downtown Mogadishu. Their target, yet again, a hotel popular with government leaders and members of parliament. Al-Shabab have waged a relentless war against the government since being forced from the capital. The fighters have also attacked neighbouring [...]

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The day they came to kill me – Abdalle Mumin

AMA — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 07:53:06 +0000

Nairobi, Kenya – Abdalle Mumin is still looking over his shoulder, even after months spent in what he calls “exile”. The Somali journalist rarely leaves his safe house. He checks his phone constantly. Sometimes he turns it off or switches sim cards, just to make sure. Sitting stone-faced in a darkened office – blinds drawn [...]

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Attackers storm Somalia’s Sahafi Hotel after Car Bomb Explosion

AMA — Sun, 01 Nov 2015 11:35:15 +0000

At least five people have been killed and dozens more wounded in an attack on a hotel in the centre of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, witnesses tell Al Jazeera. A car bomb exploded at the main gate of the Sahafi Hotel early on Sunday morning, with attackers then storming the hotel as they exchanged gunfire with [...]

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Mogadishu Book Fair brings Somali Talents together

AMA — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:12:47 +0000

The Somali capital, Mogadishu, is hosting an international book festival, the first such event in the city in more than two decades. Authors, playwrites, poets, artists and musician have travelled from across the world to attend the three-day event that was also guested by the Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. “We are holding this fair [...]

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IOM Reunites Somali Family in Slovenia

apofeed — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:06:12 +0000

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 11, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM Somalia, in coordination with the Somali immigration department, has conducted its first family reunification from the south central region of the country. The operation reunited a mother and her three children who had been living in Mogadishu for 12 years with their husband and father [...]

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Gunmen in Somalia kill three Syrian, three Somali doctors

Adewale A. — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:26:19 +0000

Fighters in Somalia shot dead three Syrian doctors and their three Somali colleagues Wednesday as they travelled to a hospital outside the capital Mogadishu, an AFP reporter said. Their bullet-riddled bodies were carried into Mogadishu's Medina hospital…

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