The #Somali security forces captured a giant tanker truck packed with destructive explosives. Investigators indicate it’s one of the largest bombs ever made by Al-Shabab. #Mogadishu was inevitably supposed to be the target of this heinous bomb.#Somalia
#BREAKING: This victim is among civilians who were injured in a U.S. airstrike in the vicinity of #Awdhegle,a small town in #Lower_Shabelle region last night. Scores are feared to succumb in the strike. The press release said, they killed three al-shabaab.#Somalia
#BREAKING: Somaliland starts roadblocks. The highway of hargeisa presidential palace is brocked today for delegates arriving from #Asmara,the capital city of #Eretrea.
A crocodile attacked and ate a woman and her five-month-old baby who had gone to fetch water from #Shabelle river in east #Somalia, officials said on Sunday.Crocodiles stay in fish-breeding areas, but when the fish get depleted, they come on the surface and attack and eat humans.
#BREAKING: A #Kuran student wounds his teacher in the outskirts of #Beledwayne. Sources say the 16-year old boy was a newly recruited al-Shabab fighter. The cause of the shooting is yet unexplained.#Somalia
#BREAKING: Angry residents brutally murdered an al-Shabab leader who was hiding at #Yaaqbariwayne,a small village in #Lower_Shabelle region.
The residents of this village have previously several times resisted Al-shabaab fighters who were plotting to capture there.#Somalia
#BREAKING: A man attempting to rape a girl of 8-year old is stabbed by her mother in the outskirts of #Mogadishu. The man is now under arrest. Sources also confirm he is dying to bleeding.#Somalia
#TOPNEWS: How about if Al-shabaab can have the access to target #Somalia's criminal investigation department chief? Who else can investigate them if they are allowed to fit bomb explosives into the chief's car?
#BREAKING: A woman plots the detention of her al-Shabab husband. #Amina, a mother of two children informs #Somali police to jail her husband,#Othman , in #Jowhar,the capital of #Middle_Shabelle region. She said he was planning to make suicide blast so she decided to save him.
A rapist is executed in #Somalia at #Gedo region for raping and killing a young girl there.Investigations in the case revealed that the convict kidnapped the girl, before taking her to an abandoned building in #Garbaharay town and raping her.#Somalia
The borderlines separating #Kenya and #Somalia were first drawn in the late 19th century. Like everywhere else on the continent, this was the work of cartographers working for #EuropeanUnion colonial powers.
Though the fight for control of #Mogadishu by both Al-Shabaab and ISS may have shifted the duo’s attention from their conventional targets, the report warns, extra munitions and fighters deployed into #Mogadishu during the tussle late last year.
#Mogadishu based security think thank Hiraal Institute said in its latest report the military offensives by regional forces and that of the Federal forces in collaboration with inter-forces was squeezing out the militants from the hideouts forcing them to adopt means of survival.
#UPDATE: The number of wounded in last night's twin bombings in #Mogadishu rises to 65, medics confirm. Neighboring residents confirm the siege still continues at Maka al Mukarama. City hospitals appeal for urgent blood donations. #Mogadishu