Somali security officials said they have seized a large cache of money that arrived Sunday at Mogadishu airport from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Two senior security officials told VOA Somali three suitcases containing $9.6 [ More … ]
The death toll from the most powerful bomb blast witnessed in Somalia’s capital rose to 189 with more than 200 injured, police and hospital sources said on Sunday. The death toll from the most powerful [ More … ]
A car bomb targeting a police station in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu went off, killing at least four people on Thursday, police said. “A suicide car bomb exploded at the gate of Waberi district police station. [ More … ]
An al-Shabaab car bombing left at least ten dead in the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, a security source said, in the latest attack on civilians in the Muslims’ holy month of Ramadan. At least 10 [ More … ]
At least 20 people were being held hostage at a Pizza restaurant in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Wednesday evening, after an al-Shabab suicide bomber killed six. Dozens of people were being held hostage in the [ More … ]
Somalia’s new military chief survived a suicide car bomb attack on Sunday just moments after he was sworn in with a mandate to launch a new offensive against extremists. Somalia’s new army chief escaped a [ More … ]
At least seven people have been killed and ten wounded in a car bomb attack at a restaurant near the Somali ministry of internal security in Mogadishu. A massive car bomb blast at a restaurant [ More … ]
The mayor of Mogadishu, speaking during a visit by Turkey’s deputy prime minister, said Mogadishu was ready for more foreign investment as its security and infrastructure situation improves. The capital of Somalia is now open [ More … ]
Blast near the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu targeted a security checkpoint with soldiers among the dead. A deadly car bomb blast targeting a security checkpoint near the Presidential Palace in the Somali capital has killed [ More … ]
– Statement from new rebel leader explicitly threatens Turkey for the first time The new leader of the al-Shabaab militant group has used his first propaganda release to threaten Turkey – the first time the country [ More … ]
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