Topic: Mogadishu
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke resigned on Tuesday, paying the price for the government's failure to rein in an Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands of civilians.Thousands of African Union peacekeeping troops have been sent to support the ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday, wounding two soldiers in the latest attack on the Somali capital by al Qaeda-linked rebels, police said.The bomber, armed ...
A suspected Al Qaeda-linked attacker disguised as a government soldier blew himself up Monday inside the presidential compound in Mogadishu, a security official told AFP.It was not immediately clear whether any other casualties resulted from the attack, which took place as a ...
Foreign envoys who narrowly escaped a suicide attack in Somalia say a rift at the top of its Western-backed government is threatening to derail efforts to fend off an Islamic insurgency."The current divisions between the leadership of Somalia's Transitional Federal Institutions (TFIs) ...
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali police said they had foiled a suicide attack by Islamist rebels on the seaport in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday, two days after a bomb attack on the city's airport.Abdullahi Abdi, a police officer based at the port, ...
A suicide squad of Al Qaeda-linked militants killed at least five people as they tried to blast their way into Mogadishu airport on Thursday, moments after top foreign envoys met the Somali president.The brazen attack was claimed by the Shebab movement and ...
A suicide squad of Al Qaeda-linked militants killed at least five people as they tried to blast their way into Mogadishu airport on Thursday, moments after top foreign envoys met the Somali president.The brazen attack was claimed by the Shebab movement and ...
A suicide squad of suspected Islamist extremists tried to blast their way into Mogadishu airport on Thursday, killing at least five people after top foreign envoys met the Somali president.Two vehicles carrying suicide bombers armed with rifles sped towards the main entrance ...
Fighting in Mogadishu has killed 230 civilians and displaced 23,000 thousand since the extremist Shebab launched an offensive against the government two weeks ago, the UN refugee agency said Tuesday.The fighting for control of the capital pitting the Al Qaeda-inspired rebels against ...
The United States on Tuesday condemned as "particularly outrageous" an attack by Al Qaeda-inspired extremists in Somalia that killed 30 people, including six members of the country's legislature and four government officials."We are saddened today by the loss of life that tragically ...
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