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Somalia car bombing: 100 dead as al Qaeda-linked group takes responsibility

The people who were killed included “mothers carrying children, fathers seeking medical treatment, students going to study and businessmen working to feed their families,” President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

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Somalia car bombings death toll rises to 120- health minister

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 on Monday.

Reuters

Sullivan says U.S. strongly condemns terrorist attack in Mogadishu

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday that the U.S. "strongly condemns the terrorist attack" in Mogadishu, where car bombs exploded at Somalia's education ministry next to a busy market, killing at least 100 people.

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Death toll from Somalia twin bombings climbs to 100

The number of people killed in twin car bombings in the Somali capital Mogadishu, claimed by Al-Shabaab Islamists, has risen to 100, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Sunday.

Bangkok Post

At least 100 people were killed in the car bomb attacks in Somalia's capital

Nearly 300 people were wounded in Saturday's explosions, the country's president said. The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group claimed responsibility, saying it targeted the education ministry.

WEKU

Death toll from Al-Shabaab bomb attacks in Somalia climbs to 100

The number of people killed in twin car bombings in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 100, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Sunday. The attacks have been claimed by Al-Shabaab militants.

Radio France Internationale

Death toll from Somalia twin bombings rises to 100

The number of people killed in an attack on Saturday at a busy intersection in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 100, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Sunday.

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Death Toll from Somalia Twin Bombings Climbs to 100

The number of people killed in an attack on Saturday at a busy intersection in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 100, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Sunday. "So far, people who died have reached 100 and 300 are wounded, and the number for both the death and…

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At least 100 killed, 300 hurt in ‘heinous’ Mogadishu car bombings

Somali president says death toll could rise further after Saturday’s twin bombings targeting the education ministry.

Al Jazeera

Car bombs at busy Somalia market intersection killed at least 100, president says

The two car bombs that exploded at Somalia's education ministry next to a busy market intersection killed at least 100 people and wounded 300, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Sunday, warning the death toll could rise.

Reuters

Somalia Car Bombs Kill at Least Nine

At least nine people, including children, died on Saturday in twin car bomb attacks targeting Somalia's education ministry in the capital Mogadishu, security officers and witnesses said. Two cars packed with explosives were detonated minutes apart near the busy Zobe junction and followed by gunfire. "I was among the first…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Scores of casualties’ after twin blasts in Somalia’s capital

Vehicle loaded with explosives drove into the education ministry compound in Mogadishu and detonated.

Al Jazeera

Car bombs at Somali education ministry leave scores of casualties

Two car bomb explosions at the education ministry in Somalia's capital Mogadishu killed or wounded scores of people on Saturday, police and the state news agency said.

Reuters

Nostalgia from Somalia

Mogadishu in Somalia in the mid-1980s was a crossroads where Africa, Asia and Europe joined, where hotels like the Al-Uruba competed with other luxury venues to host some of the Indian Ocean's most potent popular music. Situated right on Lido beach, the distinctive Al-Uruba building with Arabic and Somali architectural…

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Victims of Mogadishu Terrorist Attack Arrive in Saudi Arabia for Treatment

A plane carrying six Somalis injured in a recent terrorist bombing that targeted a hotel in Mogadishu arrived on Friday at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, for treatment in the Kingdom. The move came in an implementation of the directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King…

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Somalia: Puntland state port is getting a revamp - this is key to its future

The port city of Bosaso, located at the north-eastern corner of Somalia, provides a striking example of the interlinkage between security and infrastructure. The city benefited from the civil war that ravaged the southern parts of Somalia in the 1990s and 2000s. It developed into a booming trade centre. But…

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Suicide Bombing in Somalia Kills One Soldier, Injures 6

At least one soldier was killed and six others injured in Somalia on Sunday when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a military base in the west of the capital Mogadishu, a soldier and a hospital worker told Reuters. Somalia's al-Qaeda-allied group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for the bombing.…

Reuters

Suicide bombing in Somalia kills one soldier and injures six

One soldier was killed and at least six others injured in Somalia on Sunday when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a military base in the west of the capital Mogadishu, a soldier and a hospital worker told Reuters.

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Al Jazeera

From Dadaab to Mogadishu: More refugees return to rebuild Somalia

Somalis who fled the country because of conflict are now returning home from one of the world’s largest refugee camps.

Al Jazeera

In Somalia, al-Shabab’s courts win more converts

More Somalis are losing faith in the country’s slow judicial process and are taking their complaints to the armed group.

Reason

The War on Terror Continues Apace in Africa

U.S. counterterrorism action in Somalia hasn’t been approved by Congress, but it rages on anyway.

The Independent UK

AP Week in Pictures: Global | Aug. 20-Aug. 26, 2022

From a handler swimming alongside a horse on a trip to the Caribbean Sea in Barbados, to Somalis clearing wreckage after gunmen stormed a hotel in the capital Mogadishu, to Cocoa farmers protesting in La Paz, Bolivia, this photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from around the…

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Somalia Loses its Shakespeare, Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame

Somalia lives in an ongoing path of tragedies, and the latest was an attack led by Harakat al-Shabaab militant group on a hotel in Mogadishu. Still, the death of Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame, known as “Hadrawi”, aged 79, on Thursday hit hard in the whole country. This reaction was not surprising,…

Radio France Internationale

Somali security forces end al-Shabaab siege at Mogadishu hotel

Somali security forces ended the siege by al-Shabaab militants at Hayat hotel in Mogadishu late Saturday, 30 hours after it began. At least 21civilians were killed and 117 wounded after the bomb and gun attack, according to Health Minister Ali Haji Adan. Updated 14h29

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GCC, MWL Condemn Terrorist Attack in Mogadishu

The Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Dr. Nayef Falah Mubarak Al-Hajraf has condemned a deadly terrorist attack that targeted a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Al-Hajraf said GCC Member States reject all forms of violence, extremism and terrorism, and offered condolences and sympathy to the families of…

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