Mogadishu in a sentence

Mogadishu – Somali security forces shot dead five al-Shabaab gunmen, who had killed three civilians and two soldiers during an attack on a hotel near the presidential residence in Mogadishu on Tuesday night, police said early on Wednesday.

The incident in Mogadishu was one of two major terrorist attacks on foreign targets in Somalia on September 30. Al-Shabaab also claimed responsibility for a separate attack on a US base in Baledogle, roughly 100 km west of Mogadishu.

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Four car bombs by Islamic extremists exploded outside a hotel in the capital, Mogadishu, killing at least 20 people and injuring 17, said police.

MOGADISHU, Somalia — At least 14 people were killed and 10 others wounded in a car bomb blast near a hotel in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, Somali officials said Thursday.

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Unknown gunmen, thought to be Al Shabaab fighters have on Saturday shot and killed two Somali security soldiers in the capital of Mogadishu.

Somali General Shot Dead in Capital Mogadishu (Today) - A Somali general was shot in the head and killed in the capital Mogadishu on.

Mogadishu taxis Minibuses are the most common type of public transportation in Mogadishu.

He would also, she feared, struggle to find a job in Mogadishu’s booming construction industry as he lacked the right skills.

In the 1960s, Radio Mogadishu was modernized with assistance from the Soviet Union, and began broadcasting in Amharic, Oromo, Somali and Italian.

It exploded on them,” said Abdi Ahmed, deputy district commissioner of Qoryoley, a city of about 60,000 people south of the country’s capital, Mogadishu.

Last week, on January 12, 2023, hundreds of Somalis gathered in Mogadishu for a state-organized march to denounce the al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) -A truck bomb exploded at a checkpoint in the central Somali town of Beledweyne on Saturday, killing at least 10 people and obliterating nearby buildings, a police officer said.

Mogadishu, Somalia — Horn of Africa leaders now want the international community to repeal the existing United Nations arms embargo in Somalia allowing President Hassan Mohamud led government better equip its military in the fight against terrorism.

Most of the progress is due to Mogadishu's leveraging of local discontent with Al-Shabaab to form alliances with clan militias.

People walk amidst destruction at the scene, a day after a double car bomb attack at a busy junction in Mogadishu, Somalia Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022.

Somalis stand stand outside the destroyed Pearl Beach hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday, June 10, 2023.

The U.S. embassy in Mogadishu handed over military equipment to the government Sunday.

A Liberian-flagged cargo ship, M/V Basilisk, is suspected of being attacked pirates while sailing approximately 380 nautical miles east of Mogadishu, Somalia.

At 2:34 p.m., someone at the landing site informed Mogadishu that armed men had captured five survivors from the landing site and that one person had been killed, according to notes shared with The Post.

Earlier in September, Abduwahab Ismail from Hargeisa appeared before a military court in Mogadishu.