Topic: Mogadishu

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab militants beheaded at least two young boys in Mogadishu, an activist said on Friday, in the latest of a string of attacks showing they still had the power to strike despite a well publicized withdrawal.At ...

UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said Saturday relief groups were ramping up aid delivery to tens of thousands of people affected by famine and drought in Somalia's war-riven capital Mogadishu.More than 100,000 people have fled to Mogadishu from other drought-struck Somalia regions ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamist militants who fled the capital this week may regroup and resort to "terrorist tactics" but they have been severely weakened, the U.N. special envoy for the African nation said on Wednesday.Augustine Mahiga was speaking days after ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia offered an amnesty to militants still fighting in the capital Mogadishu Tuesday, three days after the country's president declared victory over the insurgent al Shabaab group, which has withdrawn most of its combatants from the city.It was the ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed said on Saturday his military had defeated Islamist rebels battling to overthrow his Western-backed government after the al Shabaab group began withdrawing fighters from the capital Mogadishu.Rejecting Ahmed's claim to have quashed al Shabaab's ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist militants fighting to topple Somalia's Western-backed government were abandoning their bases in the capital Mogadishu Saturday, a rebel spokesman and the government said.African peacekeepers and Somali government forces have been steadily wresting control of the rubble-strewn capital from ...

Two African Union soldiers and two would-be suicide bombers were killed Monday during a shootout in Mogadishu, an AU force spokesman said.A firefight erupted between the AU troops and the would-be attackers dressed as government soldiers when they attempted to infiltrate the ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's president said his security forces will defeat al Qaeda and its affiliate militants in the war-ravaged country after they killed Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Africa's most wanted al Qaeda operative, this week."We have overpowered al Qaeda and al Shabaab ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's Al Shabaab rebels said Saturday they were behind the killing of Interior Minister Abdi Shakur Sheikh Hassan after they planted a bomb under his bed at his house in the capital Mogadishu.An Islamist forum website carried a message ...

The UN Special Representative for Somalia, Augustine Mahiga on Saturday expressed his "shock" at the killing of Somalia's interior minister in a suicide attack perpetrated by a family member.Mahiga "has expressed his shock over the callous murder of the Interior Minister of ...