Tag: Somalia
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Suicide bomber kills 13 soldiers at military academy
A suicide bomber in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Monday killed at least 13 soldiers and wounded at least 20 more inside a military academy in an attack claimed by the al Shabaab militant group.
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Somalia faces ‘dire hunger emergency’ as millions cut off aids over lack of funding- UN warns
Somalia’s “dire hunger emergency” is spiraling upward with one-third of the population expected to face crisis or worse levels of food needs, but the UN has been forced to drastically cut food assistance because of a lack of funding, the head of the World Food Program said Thursday. Cindy McCain told the UN Security Council…
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Breakthrough! Stray bullet removed from woman’s clitoris in unprecedented injury
In what study authors described as the first case of its kind, a 24-year-old woman in Somalia underwent emergency surgery to remove a stray bullet that struck her clitoris while relaxing at home. Per New York Post, the woman’s case was recently highlighted in a report by the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports.“To the…
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Police officer who killed man over lighter sentenced to death by firing squad
Mohamed Abdulkadir Sheikh Ibrahim, a junior Somali police officer who was sentenced to death A Somali military court has sentenced to death a police officer convicted of killing a civilian following an argument over a cigarette lighter. Mohamed Abdulkadir Sheikh Ibrahim, a junior officer serving in South West, one of the five Federal Member…
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Islamic militants storm hotel in Somalia’s capital, leave 20 dead and 40 wounded
No fewer than 20 people have been killed and 40 wounded after Islamic militants stormed a hotel in Somalia’s capital, engaging in an hours-long exchange of fire with the security forces. It was gathered that the attack occurred at late Friday night and security forces rescued many others, including children, from the scene at Mogadishu’s…
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Biden approves redeployment of U.S. troops to Somalia
U.S. President Joe Biden has approved a plan to redeploy U.S. troops to the eastern African country of Somalia to counter the extremist group al-Shabab, according to the White House. Drawn from forces already deployed in Africa, less than 500 U.S. troops will be repositioned in Somalia to constitute “a small, persistent U.S. military presence”…
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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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Bomb blast kills Security chief, 3 others
At least four people were killed as a result of a land-mine explosion in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu, a local radio station reported on Tuesday. According to the Dalsan FM station, Deputy Commissioner for Security and Politics in Garasbaale Abdi-Rashid Dubad is among those killed in the explosion. Another six people were injured in the…
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3 killed in explosive attack in southern Somalia
At least three persons, including a local government official, were killed on Saturday in a roadside blast along the road linking Bal’ad and Jowhar towns in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region. The spokesman of HirShabelle state, Da’ud Haji Irro, told journalists that an improvised explosive device (IED) suspected to have been planted on the Gololey village…
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At least 17 killed in bomb attack
At least 17 people were killed and 28 others wounded when a bomb went off outside a hotel near the international airport in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Monday, medical officials said. The Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group al Shabaab, which is trying to topple Somalia’s weak U.N.-backed government, claimed responsibility for the attack. The city’s Madina…