At least 26 people, including several foreigners, are killed and 56 injured in a suicide bomb and gun attack claimed by Al-Shabaab militants on a popular hotel in southern Somalia, a top regional official has said.

Six people are killed when a suicide car bomb struck a local government office in central Mogadishu, destroying the building and a Quranic school opposite.

The death toll from twin car bomb blasts in the Somali capital late on Friday has risen to 45 from the initially reported 18, a senior government official says.

A large explosion rocks a hotel in the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu and there is ongoing gunfire after what is suspected to be an al-Shabab attack.

A mosque under refurbishment has collapsed in Somalia, killing at least 15 people and injuring 40.

At least 30 people are killed in twin bomb attacks claimed by Shebab Islamists at a busy restaurant in the Somali city of Baidoa, the regional governor says.

Militants storm a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, leaving at least nine people dead, in an attack claimed by al-Shabab.

Somalia's Islamist Shebab militants killed at least 19 people when five gunmen detonated a bomb before storming a popular seaside restaurant in the capital Mogadishu.

The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab releases a propaganda video featuring footage of the US presidential hopeful, Donald Trump

Somalia's government has banned the celebration of Christmas, warning that such Christian festivities could threaten the nation's Muslim faith.

At least eight people are killed in a suicide attack on a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

At least 14 people are killed and 11 wounded on Tuesday when gunmen attacked a northern Kenyan village, close to the border with war-torn Somalia, officials and Red Cross said.

24 people dies in southern Somalia after fighting between al Shabaab Islamist militants and government forces.

Somalia's Islamist al-Shabab militants are recruiting heavily in north-eastern Kenya, according to evidence gathered by the BBC.

Al-Shabab militants attacks a government complex in a busy area of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, killing at least 10 people.

Fifteen people have been killed in a gun battle at Maka al-Mukarama hotel in Mogadishu of Somalia, including Somali ambassador to Switzerland

US defence department confirms that it has killed al-Shabab leader Adan Garar

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