Pirates attack foreign ships off Somalia

Bomb attack on UN vehicle in Somalia's Puntland region kills at least six people, reports say.

A suicide car bomber kills 12 people in an attack aimed at African Union (AU) troops in Somalia, an official says.

At least 10 people are killed and several MPs injured in an attack on a hotel in the centre of Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses say.

Al-Shabab militants launch an attack on the main African Union military base near Mogadishu airport in Somalia.

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday, injuring three people, police and witnesses said.

Two hotels are attacked in the Somali capital Mogadishu, followed by an exchange of gunfire, as Muslims break their Ramadan fast.

Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab militants rammed a suicide car bomb into an African Union base Tuesday before storming the compound, with witnesses reporting many dead, although the AU insisted it had fought off the attack.

NAIROBI, 21 APRIL 2015 - With great sadness, UNICEF can now release the names of the four colleagues who were killed in a horrific attack as they travelled to work yesterday in Garowe, northern Somalia.
Those who lost their lives were:·         Mr. Payenda Gul Abed, who had been coordinating UNICEF’s polio immunization efforts in Garowe since May 2014.
·         Ms. Brenda Kyeyune, who had managed social mobilization and communication initiatives in support of polio eradication in Somalia...

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