Four people are killed in Jubaland, Somalia, as al-Shabaab is confirmed as having captured a military base in the area which had been handed to Somalia by the Kenyan military on June 29.
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Brig-Gen Mohydin is appointed as the Chief of the defense force Somali National Army (SNA), replacing Maj- Gen Odowa Yusuf Rage.
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Fifty-four Ugandan soldiers are killed after Al-Shabaab gunmen storm an AMISOM base in Bulomarer.
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The Somali National Army and pro-government militants kill 30 al-Shabaab jihadists and injure many others while defending a military base in the south of the country.
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The Somali Armed Forces claim it recaptured the port town of Harardhere from Al-Shabaab militants.
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At least 27 people died, most children, and 53 were injured after remnants of an old bomb exploded in the Murale village in the Janaale area of the eastern Lower Shabelle region.
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Somali forces kill 67 al-Shabaab militants and seize many weapons in a continuation of offensives against the group in the Mudug region.
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Seven soldiers, including a commander, are killed when al-Shabaab terrorists attack a base in Hawadley with a suicide car bomb and gunmen.
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At least 26 people died, 16 of them soldiers, and 30 others wounded after heavy fighting broke out in Puntland. This is after the Puntland parliament voted for a one-man-one vote election with multipl
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Somalia announces that beginning next year, the country will change to a presidential system and elect officials by direct vote, ending more than three decades of indirect voting where lawmakers elect
