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More than 300 people were killed when a powerful bomb blast ripped through Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, on Saturday. The attack marked the deadliest assault the country has ever witnessed. Somalia's three-day national mourning period for the victims is coming to an end, with around 300 more people also injured in the blast. Dozens are missing, hospitals are
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Somali militants have stoned a man to death after an Islamic court convicted him of adultery. Dayow Mohamed Hassan, 44, was buried neck-deep and pelted to death with stones by al-Shabaab fighters. He was convicted of being in an adulterous relationship with a woman and impregnating her, despite having two wives, an
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South Sudan is the most fragile nation in the world, the new fragile states index has revealed. Conducted by Fund for Peace, an independent research and educational organization, South Sudan is followed by Somalia, Central Africa Republic and Yemen of the 178 countries ranked. In the previous index, South Sudan, the world’s
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Bodyguards for Somalia's auditor general shot dead a government minister in an apparent accident near the presidential palace in Mogadishu on Wednesday evening, police said. Auditor general Nur Farah's bodyguards opened fire on a car carrying Abbas Abdullahi Sheikh Siraji, the public works and reconstruction minister, near a checkpoint close to
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President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed will make his first State visit to Kenya on Thursday ahead of a special summit on the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD). In his weekly press briefing, State House Spokesperson Manoah Esipisu said Kenya and Somalia enjoy warm and cordial relations founded on trust, cooperation and mutual
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