Mogadishu, locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and most populous city of Somalia. Located in the coastal Banadir region on the Somali Sea, the city has served as an important port for millennia. As of 2017, it had a population of 2,425,000 residents. Mogadishu is the nearest foreign mainland city to Seychelles, at a distance of 835 mi (1,344 km) over the Somali Sea.
Somalia's al Shabaab stormed a government building on Saturday, detonating a suicide car bomb in the heart of the capital Mogadishu with at least 15 people, including an assistant minister, killed.. Reuters - Published
Somalia's al Shabaab stormed a government building on Saturday, detonating a suicide car bomb in the heart of the capital Mogadishu with at least 15 people, including an assistant minister, killed.. Reuters - Published
At least 36 were killed and another 60 wounded in a deadly car bomb attack in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Thursday (February 28) evening, officials said on Friday (March 1). Sarah Charlton..
According to a report by Reuters, on Friday, Somali government troops shot dead three Islamist militants holed up in a building in central Mogadishu, ending a day-long bomb and gun attack that killed..
A suicide-bomb attack on a hotel in Mogadishu has killed at least 29 people, and injured more than 80. Security forces are still trying to dislodge the Al Shabaab militants from a nearby building. Lucy..
A car bomb exploded at a shopping mall in Somalia’s capital on Monday, killing 11 people and wounding 10. It's an attack that police said was probably carried out by Islamist group al Shabaab. The..
CNN reports A car bomb exploded at a crowded shopping mall in Mogadishu, the Somali capital on Monday morning. Police said the bomb killed at least eleven people and wounded dozens of others. The..
A car bomb exploded at a shopping mall in Somalia’s capital on Monday, killing 11 people and wounding 10. It's an attack that police said was probably carried out by Islamist group al Shabaab. The..
Reuters reports A car bomb exploded at a shopping mall in Somalia’s capital on Monday. It killed 11 people and wounded 10 in an attack that police said was probably carried out by Islamist group al..
A gun battle between Somalia's security forces and Islamist group Al Shabaab's fighters in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday has ended, leaving 15 people dead, police said. Reuters - Published
Al Shabaab stormed a Somali government building in Mogadishu on Saturday, with at least four people killed in the suicide car bomb attack by the country's Islamist group and an ensuing gunfight Reuters - Published
Central Mogadishu was shaken on Saturday by a car bomb blast at a government ministry building, with Islamist group al Shabaab claiming responsibility for the attack in the Somali capital. Reuters - Published
A big explosion was heard in the heart of Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Saturday, with clouds of smoke seen above the scene of blast, a Reuters witness reported. Reuters - Published
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