Mogadishu blast

Somalia's Shabaab kill 18 police in academy bombing

A suicide bomber from Somalia's Shabaab insurgents kill 18 police officers and wounds 15 others when he blew himself up inside the country's main police academy, the force's chief say.

Death toll from blasts in Somalia's capital Mogadishu hits 276

More than 276 people are killed by twin bomb blasts that struck busy junctions in the heart of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, officials say, marking the deadliest attacks since an Islamist insurgency began in 2007.

December 14, 2017
December 14, 2017

Somalia's Shabaab kill 18 police in academy bombing

A suicide bomber from Somalia's Shabaab insurgents kill 18 police officers and wounds 15 others when he blew himself up inside the country's main police academy, the force's chief say.

October 16, 2017
October 16, 2017

Death toll from blasts in Somalia's capital Mogadishu hits 276

More than 276 people are killed by twin bomb blasts that struck busy junctions in the heart of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, officials say, marking the deadliest attacks since an Islamist insurgency began in 2007.