Tag: Somali
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9 dead in hotel attack in Somali capital – police
Security forces in Somali on Monday ended an assault by al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab fighters which left nine people dead in a hotel attack in Mogadishu. A police spokesman said a suicide car bomb exploded on Sunday and was followed by a shootout between al Shabaab militants and security forces at the Hotel Afrik adding…
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Coronavirus kills former African PM
Former Somali Prime Minister Nur Hussein died on Wednesday in Britain, about a week after being diagnosed of COVID-19. Hussein’s family confirmed the death at King’s College Hospital in London. The former prime minister served between November 2007 and February 2009 in the transitional government of Somalia. The current Somali Prime Minister, Hassan Khaire, mourned…
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Somali pirates release Iranian held hostage since 2015
An Iranian held for more than four years by Somali pirates has been released, a humanitarian organisation that helps hostages said on Saturday. Mohammad Sharif Panahandeh was a crew member on the FV Siraj, an Iranian fishing vessel that was captured off the coast of Somalia in March 2015, the Hostage Support Partnership said in…
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Al-Shabaab gunmen kill cleric, 14 others for insulting Prophet Mohamed
Al-Shabaab gunmen and a suicide car bomber struck a religious centre in Central Somalia on Monday, killing a cleric and at least 14 of his followers, a police officer said. The Islamist militant group had accused the cleric of insulting Prophet Mohamed, which he denied. The group was forced from Mogadishu in 2011 in most…
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Six soldiers killed in roadside explosion
Police said six Somali soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb explosion near Somali’s southern town of Wanlaweyn on Wednesday evening. Police officer who did not want to be named told Xinhua on Thursday that the forces were on their way to Baledogle Airport in Lower Shabelle region in Southern Somalia. “The soldiers died after…
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Court sentences three militants to death over bombings
Somali military court on Wednesday sentenced three al-Shabab militants to death after they were found guilty of being behind the hotel bombing in October last year, officials said. Chairperson of the Military Court, Hassan Ali Nur Shute, said the militants admitted to charges of carrying out attack on Nasa-hablod II Hotel in which more than…
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Court sentences Somali soldier to death for ‘mistakenly’ killing minister
A court martial on Monday sentenced a Somali soldier to death for killing a government minister after mistaking him for an Islamist militant. Public works minister Abbas Siraji was shot dead on May 3, in his car in the capital Mogadishu. Soldier Ahmed Abdulahi Ahmed, was condemned to death by a military court “for mistakenly…