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The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on Thursday handed over security equipment donated by China to the Somali National Army (SNA) to help enhance security operations in the country.
A hotel blast in the Somali capital on Sunday has killed 15 people and injured dozens of others, sources said, adding that the Chinese Embassy in Somalia was partially damaged and that Chinese nationals are among the injured.
A Chinese navy flotilla that has been escorting commercial vessels in pirate-plagued Somali waters returned home on Friday, after its mission completed.
A huge car bomb explosion heard near a government compound in Mogadishu's Shibis district Sunday, local police said.
A joint security operation conducted by Africa Union troops and Somali military killed at least 11 Al-Shabaab fighters, and recovered explosive devices in Bulobarde town of the Hiran Region, central Somalia.
Somali security agencies in Gedo region said they turned down a request from Kenyan defense forces to hand over the captured Al-Shabaab commander Zakariya Ismail Hersi.
The Somali government and the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on Sunday retook southern coastal town of Barawe, residents and officials said.
Ugandan troops have captured a strategic town from Somali militants Al Shaabab in the volatile Horn of Africa country, a top military official said here Wednesday.
The UN Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday that they are " appalled" by the suicide car bombings targeting a popular hotel in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, calling the attacks "acts of terrorism."
The death toll from the twin car- bomb explosions that targeted a hotel in Somali capital Mogadishu has risen to 11 while dozens more were injured, Somali police and local media reports said.
The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, Mahamet Saleh Annadif, has condemned the ambush attack in the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, which killed six people and injured two.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday strongly condemned the deadly attacks on a police station in Somalia, saying that these terrorist acts "have caused tremendous suffering."
A Somali pirate will spend the rest of his life in a federal prison for his role in the 2011 hijacking of a sailboat off the coast of Africa that left four Americans dead, local report said Tuesday.