Topic: Mogadishu
Two suicide bombers attacked the port in the Somalia capital Mogadishu Thursday, killing two civilian workers and also losing their own lives, witness and officials said.One of the suicide bombers blew himself up and security forces shot the other dead, they said."Two ...
Somalia's Shebab Islamists on Saturday threatened to punish Ugandans for re-electing President Yoweri Museveni, a key supporter of an African Union peacekeeping mission in Mogadishu.Ugandan troops form the backbone of the AU's deployment in Somalia, which supports the weak Mogadishu government against ...
A suicide car bomb ripped through a police base in Mogadishu on Monday, killing nine people after a weekend of bloody fighting between pro-government forces and Al Qaeda-inspired Shebab insurgents.Police sources said at least nine people were killed when the explosives-laden vehicle ...
A suicide car bomb attack on a government security base in Mogadishu Monday killed at least six policemen and wounded scores of others, a police official told AFP."At least six police officers were killed. Many others were wounded, the toll could be ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed at least 10 people near a police training camp in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Monday, and the number of dead was likely to rise, police said."We saw a speeding car toward us, and it ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb exploded near a police training camp in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Monday, but the number of casualties was not immediately clear, police said."We saw a speeding car toward us, and it soon exploded. Every place ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamist al Shabaab rebels are seen as lacking the numbers and unity of purpose to carry out a threat by one of their leaders to attack the United States on its own territory.Fuad Mohamed Khalaf, number three in ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The leader of Somali rebel group Hizbul Islam said on Monday he backed the decision to join up with al Qaeda-linked insurgents al Shabaab in their bid to topple the Horn of Africa country's besieged government.Hasan Dahir Aweys, who ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab rebels said on Thursday they would increase their attacks against Uganda and Burundi after the Islamist rebels joined forces with rival extremists Hizbul Islam.Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombings in the Ugandan ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A moderate Islamist group that signed a power sharing deal with Somalia's government in March this year to help quell a raging insurgency has withdrawn from the administration, days after the prime minister quit.Before joining the government, the Ahlu ...
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