Tag: MOGADISHU
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21 deaths after: military end Somali Hotel siege
Military forces have ended a siege by al Qaeda-linked militants at a hotel in Somalia’s capital in which no fewer than 21 people were killed and dozens injured, authorities said on Sunday. Dozens of people who had been taken hostage in the stand-off at the Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu were freed. Elite armed forces battled…
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Ex-president of Somalia, Mohamud, re-elected as head of state
F ormer Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was on Sunday re-elected as head of state of the East African country. The 66-year-old politician prevailed against 35 candidates in the election for the country’s highest office, including the incumbent president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, who had replaced Mohamud in power in February 2017.
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TRAGIC! Car bomb blast kills five in Somalia capital, Mogadishu
Five people were killed and over a dozen injured in a car bombing near a school in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Thursday, a security official said, in the latest attack to hit the troubled country. “There was a car bomb blast… the death of five people was confirmed and fifteen others were wounded”, security official…
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At least 18 people killed in Mogadishu bombing – Police
At least 18 people have died in a car bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu, according to police. Some 30 others were injured, including some seriously, in the explosion on Saturday morning. Local broadcaster Radio Dalsan cited the mayor, Omar Filish, as saying that university students were among the dead. The station posted photographs on…
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7 injured by road-side bomb in Mogadishu – Police
Police on Tuesday said seven people were wounded by a roadside bomb in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Islamist group al Shabaab carries out frequent bombings in their bid to topple the western-backed government. The bomb had been placed at Mogadishu’s Benadir junction, police officer Maj. Abdullahi Hussein told Reuters.…