Al-Shabab

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The country’s intelligence agency says it has informed the two of the group’s plot.

The al-Qaeda-linked armed group al-Shabab has said it was behind the attack at the camp near Mogadishu airport.

The blast caused ‘huge damage’ in a restaurant filled with politicians and government officials, police said.

Armed group al-Shabab claims responsibility for suicide bombing in a Mogadishu tea shop near a military base.

Seventeen others, including schoolchildren, wounded in latest attack to hit Somalia’s capital.

Two soldiers sentenced to death and three others given 39-year prison terms each for killing seven civilians.

Attack targeting a convoy going into the presidential palace is claimed by the armed group al-Shabab.

Al-Shabab armed group claims responsibility for latest attack in Somali capital.

Two members of security forces killed and five people wounded in the blast, which was claimed by the al-Shabab group.

Somalia is struggling to rebuild after 20 years of civil war and is still battling an insurgency by al-Shabab.

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