Five hurt in blast in Mogadishu mayor’s office
ABDI SHEIKH ISLAMIST fighters set off a bomb and then stormed a government building in Somalia’s capital, killing at least
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Kenyan security forces kill 10 suspected al Shabaab fighters
KENYAN security forces have killed 10 fighters from Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist group in eastern Kenya, a government official said.
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Somalia’s al Shabaab attacks base in town it had lost, kills seven
Islamist al Shabaab militants killed at least seven soldiers at a Somali military base in a town re-captured by the
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Al Shabaab kills seven soldiers in attack on military base
ABDI SHEIKH ISLAMIST fighters from al Shabaab stormed a military base in a part of central Somalia they were forced
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Somalia takes control of key port from al Shabaab
ABDIQANI HASSAN SOMALIA’S government-led forces have captured an al Shabaab stronghold on the Indian Ocean coast, the defence minister said,
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KENYA: Islamist fighters kill four road workers
FOUR workers from Kenya’s highways agency were killed in an ambush by suspected Islamist militants near the country’s eastern border
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U.S. targets weapons trafficking with sanctions on Islamic State in Somalia
DAPHNE PSALEDAKIS THE United States issued sanctions targeting the Islamic State in Somalia, designating members of the group and others
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Somalia car bombings death toll rises to 120
THE number of people killed by two car bombs that exploded outside the education ministry in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu has
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Car bombs at busy Somalia market intersection killed at least 100, president says
ABDI SHEIKH and ABDIQANI HASSANI THE two car bombs that exploded at Somalia’s education ministry next to a busy market
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Somalia car bomb, shooting hits Kismayu hotel, nine dead
A car bomb and shooting attack on a hotel in the Somali city of Kismayu killed nine people before security
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