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Nov
22
2023
By The African Mirror
Somalia has year to eliminate al-Shabaab militants

Somalia has year to eliminate al-Shabaab militants

NEWS
SOMALIA has one year to expel the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militant group from the country, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said, with the deadline for remaining African Union peacekeepers to leave looming next December. Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab has been waging a brutal insurgency against the Somali government since 2006 in a bid to establish its own rule based on a strict interpretation of Islamic Sharia law. Mohamud, serving his second term as president, said in August he wanted to eliminate it by early next year. "The end game is Dec 2024 when all the ATMIS (the African Union peacekeeping) forces have to leave…
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Nov
03
2022
By The African Mirror
Suspected al Shabaab attackers abduct four in Kenya, including paramedics

Suspected al Shabaab attackers abduct four in Kenya, including paramedics

NEWS
ATTACKERS suspected to be members of Somalia's al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group have abducted two paramedics, plus a driver and a patient near Kenya's border with Somalia, police said. The attackers ambushed an ambulance belonging to the regional county government of Mandera, north east of the country, as it transported the patient to a hospital in the county. "The .... ambulance (was) en route to Elwak hospital for referral with a patient ... and ... in the company of hospital staff," Mandera's Lafey police station said in a report late on Tuesday. "They were carjacked by suspected AS (al Shabaab)…
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Nov
01
2022
By The African Mirror
Somalia car bombings death toll rises to 120

Somalia car bombings death toll rises to 120

NEWS
THE number of people killed by two car bombs that exploded outside the education ministry in Somalia's capital Mogadishu has risen to at least 120 people, the health minister said. The al Qaeda-linked Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for Saturday's blasts, Somalia's deadliest since a truck bomb killed more than 500 people at the same location five years ago. The first of the explosions hit the education ministry at around 2 p.m. on Saturday. The second hit minutes later as ambulances arrived and people gathered to help the victims. Health minister Ali Haji Aden said the death toll stood at…
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Oct
24
2022
By The African Mirror
Somalia car bomb, shooting hits Kismayu hotel, nine dead

Somalia car bomb, shooting hits Kismayu hotel, nine dead

NEWS
A car bomb and shooting attack on a hotel in the Somali city of Kismayu killed nine people before security forces ended the siege at the hotel and killed the attackers, a regional official said. Gunfire erupted after an explosives-laden vehicle rammed into the gate of the port city's Tawakal Hotel. The al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militant group said it had carried out the attack. "In the explosion, nine people including students and civilians were killed and 47 others were injured, some of them seriously," Yussuf Hussein Dhumal, Security Minister for Jubbaland, told Reuters. "The hotel where the explosion happened…
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Jul
31
2021
By The African Mirror
Five soccer players die after blast hits bus

Five soccer players die after blast hits bus

NEWS
AN explosive planted on a bus carrying soccer players in Somalia's port city of Kismayo killed at least five players, a police officer said on Friday. "We have confirmed five deaths and more than 12 injuries and we still have some players missing," Captain Ahmed Farah told Reuters by telephone from Kismayo. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack on Friday evening. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed's office on its Twitter account the president had sent condolences and put the blame on al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab insurgents for the explosion. Al Shabaab, which wants to unseat the central…
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Jul
21
2021
By The African Mirror
U.S. military carries out air strike in Somalia

U.S. military carries out air strike in Somalia

WORLD
THE  United States yesterday carried out an air strike against al Shabaab militants in Somalia, the first strike in the country since President Joe Biden came into office. Al Qaeda-linked insurgent group al Shabaab is seeking to topple the government and establish its own rule in Somalia based on its own strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law. In a statement, the Pentagon said the strike took place near Galkayo, Somalia. While the United States has frequently carried out air strikes in Somalia against al Shabaab, this was the first since Jan. 20 when Biden took office. The group's campaign of…
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Jun
30
2021
By The African Mirror
Somalia to hold indirect election on October 10

Somalia to hold indirect election on October 10

NEWS
SOMALIA will indirectly pick a new president on October 10, the prime minister has announced, potentially easing a political crisis brought on by a delay in holding the election. After a series of meetings between the main parties, clan elders will now pick lawmakers in September, who will then vote for a president on the new date, Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble was quoted as saying by the state news agency (SONNA). Under the indirect election system, clan elders were meant to have selected lawmakers in December and the new lawmakers were due to elect a new president on February…
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May
02
2021
By The African Mirror
Somalia parliament’s U-turn

Somalia parliament’s U-turn

NEWS
SOMALIA’S lower house of parliament voted unanimously on Saturday to cancel a two-year presidential term extension it approved last month after clashes in the capital Mogadishu and between factions of the security forces divided over the issue. The crisis has raised fears that al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab insurgents could exploit a security vacuum if state forces split along clan lines and turn on each other. The group has taken over at least one Somali town in the past week as heavily armed fighters moved from the countryside into the capital city. Mohamed's attempt to extend his term has also angered…
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Apr
28
2021
By The African Mirror
Residents flee Mogadishu

Residents flee Mogadishu

NEWS
ABDI SHEIKH RESIDENTS of Mogadishu have fled some neighbourhoods, fearing fresh clashes between rival factions in Somalia's security forces, in a row about presidential term limits that has fuelled worries the country could return to all-out war. Government forces also raided an independent radio station and confiscated equipment. Forces loyal to the opposition hold parts of the city and the two sides clashed over the weekend, raising fears that al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab insurgents could exploit a security vacuum as state forces turn on each other. The unrest is the second bout of violence in Mogadishu over an extension to…
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Jan
24
2021
By The African Mirror
Ugandan army kills al Shabaab fighters

Ugandan army kills al Shabaab fighters

NEWS
UGANDAN soldiers working as part of a peacekeeping force in Somalia have killed 189 al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab fighters in an attack on one of their camps, the Ugandan army said. Ugandan troops are part of the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, whose aim is to support the central government and stop al Shabaab's efforts to topple it. The Ugandan People's Defence Force (UPDF) said in a statement that its soldiers on Friday had raided al Shabaab hideouts in the villages of Sigaale, Adimole and Kayitoy, just over 100 km (62 miles) southwest of the capital Mogadishu. "(The raid)...…
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