Gunmen attacked two restaurants in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu on Wednesday night, killing at least 17 people and injuring 26 others, with an unknown number of hostages being held by the attackers, rescuers said. An emergency team Aamin Ambulance said Thursday on Twitter that it has found 17 bodies and evacuated 26 people who were … Read more
Four police officers were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in southeastern Kenya, a week after 14 others died in similar attacks claimed by Shabaab Islamists, a police source said Wednesday. “We have lost four officers in this attack that also killed another person. The vehicle drove on an IED (improvised explosive device),” … Read more
Five police officers were killed Thursday when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in northeastern Kenya, a day after two separate IEDs killed eight officers, a regional security official said. “The five police officers killed in the attack were headed to boost the ongoing operation in Liboi,” said North Eastern regional coordinator Mohamud Ali Saleh … Read more
Eight police officers were killed Wednesday when their vehicles hit roadside bombs in two separate incidents in Kenya’s restive northeast close to the Somali border. The first explosion claimed three lives early Wednesday morning while the second killed five later in the afternoon. The afternoon blast struck the convoy of Mandera county governor Ali Roba … Read more
Britain’s foreign minister, Boris Johnson, made a surprise visit to Somalia on Wednesday, conferring with leaders on its security problems and a devastating drought ahead of a conference in London. Johnson met the new president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, in the centre of the capital Mogadishu, Somali sources and the British foreign office said separately. He … Read more
Al Shabaab insurgents have long threatened to scuttle the process which they are against Somalia is holding its presidential elections today February 8, after several postponements since last year. In all there are 23 candidates in the race for the top political executive position. On Tuesday night, with hours to the vote, suspected mortar attacks … Read more