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☆ Somalia blast hits Kismayu hotel, gunfire heard - police
  + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
The state-run Somali National Television said on Twitter security forces were dealing with a "terrorist incident" at the hotel, which al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab has taken responsibility for. "There is a blast at Tawakal hotel and there is gunfire being heard," Mohamed Nur, a police captain, told Reuters from Kismayu. "The security forces have besieged the scene," Farah Ali, a shopkeeper in Kismayu, told Reuters. Kismayu is the commercial capital of Jubbaland, a region of southern Somalia still partly controlled by al Shabaab. Al Shabaab was driven out of Kismayu in 2012.
☆ Child malnutrition soars in central Somalia area on verge of famine
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Aaron Ross | Thomson Reuters | West | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
The United Nations warned at the beginning of September that two districts were projected to face famine between October and December, with more than half a million children in Somalia at risk of dying from malnutrition. A previous screening in June and July found 28.6% of children in the camps were suffering from acute malnutrition, including 10.2% with severe cases. The last four rainy seasons in the Horn of Africa region have failed, making this the worst drought in 40 years. An IPC Famine Review Committee of four to six independent experts is responsible for approving any famine declaration. In Somalia's last famine in 2011, half of the more than 250,000 victims were later determined to have died before the famine was officially declared.
☆ Suicide bombing in Somalia kills one soldier and injures six
  + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterMOGADISHU, Sept 25 (Reuters) - One soldier was killed and at least six others injured in Somalia on Sunday when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a military base in the west of the capital Mogadishu, a soldier and a hospital worker told Reuters. The suicide bomber had disguised himself as a regular soldier and joined others as they filed into a military base early Sunday before he detonated the explosive, Captain Aden Omar, a soldier at the base told Reuters. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterA nurse at Madina Hospital in Mogadishu told Reuters they had received one dead soldier and six others who were wounded. It was not immediately clear who had carried out the attack but Islamist group al Shabaab frequently carries out bombings and gun attacks in Somalia and elsewhere. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Abdi Sheikh; Writing by Elias Biryabarema; editing by David EvansOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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