Al-Shabab militants are advancing towards the port city of Kismayu, raising fears of a bloody clash with African Union soldiers.
The country will never be able to prevail unless the war ends. Nastasya Tay reports.
Turkish Airlines has landed its maiden flight to Mogadishu, the first international commercial flight to the war-torn capital of Somalia in 20 years.
Somalia’s al-Qaeda-allied al-Shebaab rebels warned they were stepping up a bombing campaign in the war-torn capital Mogadishu.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has made a renewed call for the safe release of two Spanish workers who were kidnapped in Somalia in October.
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/ 30 December 2011
Médecins Sans Frontières has confirmed that two staff members, a Belgian and an Indonesian, have been killed by a gunman in war-torn Mogadishu.
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/ 24 December 2011
Somali officials say they are pleading with US authorities to persuade banks to reconsider a decision to block money transfers from Minnesota.
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/ 14 November 2011
Witnesses have said at least three explosions hit al-Shabaab-held regions outside Mogadishu at the weekend, with some saying it was aerial attack.
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/ 10 November 2011
Somali lawmaker Adan Bule Mohamed has been shot and killed outside his home, adding to the ceaseless violence the country has seen since 1991.
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/ 30 October 2011
Conflicting reports were made after fighters from Somalia’s al-Shabaab extremist group attacked an African Union military base in Mogadishu.
Civilians trapped by fighting in Mogadishu have made the most of a lull to flee, even as Kenyan forces continue their slow advance inside Somalia.
Heavy fighting broke out in Somalia’s capital after African Union-backed Somali troops moved towards al-Shabaab-occupied areas of Mogadishu.
SA has bemoaned the suicide bomb attack that killed 70 people in Mogadishu, while Somalia’s Prime Minister urged aid workers not to stay away.
At least 50 people have died after a vehicle laden with explosives was detonated by a suicide bomber near government buildings in central Mogadishu.
After four years of conflict, Mogadishu bears the signs of a city slowly rising from the ruins of war, which killed about 20 000 people.
The African Union has for 3 000 more soldiers to secure the famine-struck Somali capital after rebels occupying Mogadishu pulled out.
Five simultaneous suicide attacks targeted African Union bases in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, officials have said.
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/ 23 February 2011
Somali troops backed by peacekeepers seized three rebel bases in the capital, Mogadishu, on Wednesday, the government said.
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/ 1 November 2010
Officials report an attack by Islamic militants against government soldiers in the Somali capital has left at least 15 people dead.
Eleven reporters have been killed in Somalia in just two years — uniquely dangerous conditions under which media workers operate.
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/ 21 September 2010
Somalia’s Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke said he had resigned on Tuesday, after months of intense pressure to quit.
Fighting in Mogadishu has killed 230 civilians since the extremist al-Shabaab launched an offensive against the government two weeks ago, the UN says.
Sporadic gunfire rang out in Mogadishu on Thursday after three days of heavy battles waged by Islamist militants.
Clashes in Mogadishu pitting Islamist insurgents against Somali government troops backed by African Union forces have killed at least 17 civilians.
Leaders of the African Union agreed at a summit on Monday to reinforce the AU peacekeeping mission in Somalia to counter al-Shabaab insurgents.
On a side street off Mogadishu’s Wadnaha Road frontline a young officer is explaining the unwritten rules of the city’s intractable civil war.
Somali insurgents displayed the bodies of what they said were AU troops on Friday following a day of fierce clashes with government troops.
At least 60 civilians were killed over the last two weeks as heavy fighting engulfed the Somali capital, Mogadishu, the UN said on Friday.
Two explosions at a mosque in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday killed 39 worshippers, wounded scores more.
Heavy fighting broke out between Somali government forces and Islamist insurgents in Mogadishu early on Wednesday, officials and witnesses said.
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/ 18 February 2010
Islamist insurgents and fighters from Somalia’s government forces mingle peacefully at a weapons market, but both sides are stocking up.
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/ 11 February 2010
Somalia’s al-Shabaab rebels have sent in hundreds of reinforcements as Mogadishu braces for a government offensive against the insurgents.