Topic: Mogadishu
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb exploded near two government ministries in Mogadishu on Tuesday, killing at least six people, said an ambulance worker, in the second such attack in the Somali capital this month.The blast took place in the busy ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb exploded near a building housing government ministries in Mogadishu on Tuesday, killing at least three people. It was the second such attack in the capital this month."A suicide car bomber blew up in front of ...
Hundreds of residents in the war-torn Somali capital were fleeing Wednesday ahead of expected fresh assaults against final pockets of Islamist Shebab rebels, officials and witnesses said."We have stopped our military advancement for a few days, in order to give residents trapped ...
Through a narrow slit in the sandbag wall, a Ugandan soldier peers down a machine gun barrel across the silent, empty road, the dangerous frontline with Somalia's Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents."The Shebab are badly weakened, but are still a real threat," said ...
African Union and Somali government forces on Saturday launched an offensive to flush out remnant Shebab militia from a Mogadishu district, two months after the rebels pulled out of the city.The push comes after the Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents carried out their deadliest single ...
Somalia's Shebab on Wednesday vowed more attacks after a massive car bombing killed more than 70 people in Mogadishu in the deadliest single strike by the rebels in the country."We are promising that attacks against the enemy will be routine, more in ...
The United States and United Nations have condemned a car-bomb attack on a government compound in Mogadishu which killed over 70 people in the deadliest attack by Somalia's Shebab rebels.Witnesses described the carnage from Tuesday's attack as the worst they had seen ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's al Qaeda-linked rebels struck at the heart of the capital on Tuesday, killing scores of people with a truck bomb in the group's most deadly attack in the country since launching an insurgency in 2007.Mogadishu's ambulance coordinator Ali ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - At least 27 people have been killed in heavy fighting near the border of two semi-autonomous regions of Somalia, witnesses said on the eve of a political conference to hammer out a road map toward elections in the chaotic ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - At least 27 people have been killed in heavy fighting near the border of two semi-autonomous regions of Somalia, witnesses said on the eve of a political conference to hammer out a road map toward elections in the chaotic ...