Mogadishu police chief suspends Somali parliament, sacked immediately after
Mogadishu police boss Sadaq Omar Hassan appeared on the privately-owned Universal Somali TV channel to announce he had suspended parliamentary meeting.
Former Somali PM Hassan Farah dies in Turkey
Hassan Abshir Farah held the post between 2001 and 2003 under interim President Abdiqasim Salat Hassan.
Death toll in Mogadishu bomb attack rises to 17
Latest reports from Somalia indicate that at least 17 people have been killed and 30 were injured during a bomb blast and gun attack in the capital, Mogadishu. The Islamist militant group al-Shabab says it carried out the attack. A car bomb was followed by gunfire at a security checkpoint close to the city’s airport. […]