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Terrorists killed a car bomb in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, which killed nine people. The Islamic terrorist group al-Shabaab has claimed the attack.

The Somali police can launch drones for the first time in the hunt for suspects. A former US intelligence expert has donated five unmanned airplanes to the authorities in the East African country.

Three Somali soldiers died on Wednesday when they tried to make a car bomb harmless in Mogadishu. While they were demolishing, the car exploded.

A bus accident in northern Tanzania has certainly killed 32 people, including 29 children. Other children were injured.

The Somali Minister of Construction and Infrastructure, Abbas Siraji, was accidentally shot dead by security officers on Wednesday near the presidential palace in Mogadishu. Some of his bodyguards were injured. That made police commissioner Mohamed Hassan famous.

Somali security forces have nine crew members of an Indian cargo sailing ship freed from the hands of Somali pirates. The traditional 'dhow' was early last week raided by pirates and taken.

At least fifteen people were killed when a car bomb exploded Sunday outside an army base in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The attack was directed against senior officers, but struck by the Somali forces a bus with civilians.

By a car bomb attack in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday at least eight people were killed. It exploded vehicle loaded with explosives in front of an establishment popular with government officials.

By the explosion of a car bomb at a hotel on a busy street in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday at least eight people were killed and seven injured. The number of victims may rise, said a spokesman for the ambulance service.

Somalia has been declared in the most affected regions a state of emergency because of the serious food crisis. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo did Tuesday for an urgent appeal to the international community and expatriate Somalis quickly help to 'prevent a human tragedy.'

The signs of an acute famine in Somalia are becoming clearer. That says aid agency Save the Children Sunday. 'Babies die on the side of road are carcasses and pull desperate nomads through the streets with empty water buses,' a spokesman describes the situation in the Somali region of Puntland.

By an attack with a car bomb in the Somali capital Mogadishu least 35 people have been slain Sunday. At least forty others were injured.

Somalia Wednesday after elections installed a new president. It is a former diplomat and Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, who also has US citizenship. He was born in 1962, of the influential clan Marehan. In the eighties he went to the United States.

By an attack on a hotel in northern Somalia Wednesday six people were killed including two of the attackers. In the country chooses the parliament Wednesday a new president.

Terrorists of the movement al-Shabaab on Wednesday in the Somali capital Mogadishu attacked a hotel. There are, according to the police detonated two car bombs for Dayan Hotel and then the building was stormed. When the explosions would have killed more than ten people.

Least seven people were Saturday killed by two bomb blasts at a restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu. There are four soldiers and three civilians, said a police spokesman.

A suicide bomber on Monday with a car full of explosives crashed into a checkpoint in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Police said the car bomb exploded at the main base of the African peacekeeping force AMISOM in the city.

At a large explosion in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday, at least three people were killed and seven people injured. After the explosion were heard shots, the BBC reports.

An attack with a car bomb at a police checkpoint near a busy market in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday at least ten people killed. Responsibility for the attack has not been claimed, but the suspicion goes to the radical Islamist group al-Shabaab.

A car full of explosives Saturday in the Somali capital Mogadishu crashed into a restaurant. At least three people were killed, according to witnesses, the suicide bomber were killed.

Tuesday morning brought a car bomb at the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Several hotels nearby were damaged.

The number of deaths caused by an attack Thursday night on a beach restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to ten, police said.

A restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu Thursday became the target of an attack by terrorist movement al-Shabaab. The perpetrators first took a car bomb, after a gunfight broke out with the police. On any deaths or injuries is still unknown.

A bomb attack in Mogadishu on Sunday killed at least six people died. Twelve others were injured. Target of the attack was the headquarters of the criminal police department CID in the Somali capital. The attack was claimed by terrorist group al-Shabab.

The airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, hit by a severe attack of the terrorist network Al Shabaab. A heavy car bomb would have gone off near the base of the peacekeeping force of the African Union.

The Islamic terrorist movement al-Shabaab has once again committed an attack Monday in Somalia. This time it was a military base 50 kilometers from the capital Mogadishu targeted. At least ten soldiers lost their lives in the attack.

An explosion of a roadside bomb in the city Lafole southwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday at least eighteen civilians killed. The bomb was placed in a remote detonated when a packed minibus drove past, the police said.

Islamic terrorist group al-Shabaab has committed a Saturday attack on a hotel in central Mogadishu, capital of Somalia. First, one of the terrorists blew themselves up, then others stormed the building. There is no information about casualties yet. According to the BBC, it is a 'extremely violent explosion.

When an attack from al-Shabaab on a military convoy of the African Union in Somalia Friday at least seven people died. The soldiers were traveling from Mogadishu to the southern city Barawa ambushed by the radical Islamist group.

A reporter for the Somali state radio Sunday street shot dead in Mogadishu. The police think the murder Sagal Salad is the work of the radical Islamist group al-Shabaab.