Events in the year 2024 in Somalia.

2024
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Somalia

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Events

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Ongoing: 2024 timeline of the Somali Civil War

January

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February

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March

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  • 10 March — United States Africa Command (Africom) conducted an airstrike against al-Shabaab in a remote area near Ugunji, approximately 71 km southwest of Mogadishu, killing three militants without harming any civilians.[8]
  • 14 March:
    • At least six people, including both combatants and civilians are killed following clashes near administrative stations in Beledweyne between forces loyal to Hirshabelle State and Hiraan State.[9]
    • 2024 Mogadishu YSL Hotel attack and siege - An al-Shabaab member blows himself up outside a hotel in Mogadishu, killing three guards and two security forces. Six gunmen then storm the hotel in 13-hour siege, leading to a gunfight with the army in which three soldiers and the six attackers are killed. Twenty-seven people are wounded.[10]
  • 18 March — Turkish drones hit the Jaffey farm, about three kilometers west of Bagdad village in the Lower Shabelle, killing more than 22 people and injuring 21, including many children.[11]
  • 22 March — Al-Shabaab militants storm a military base in Busley, near Mogadishu, killing seven soldiers, including the commander, and ten militants. The attack involves suicide car bombs and the seizure of military vehicles.[12]
  • 31 March — Puntland withdraws its recognition of the federal government due to a constitutional crisis caused by the federal parliament's adoption of changes to a disputed provisional constitution without consulting Puntland, under which the President and Government were originally elected.[13][14]

April

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June

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  • 6 June — Somalia is elected to become a two-year non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for the first time since 1970.[29]
  • 8 June:
  • 10 June: At least 55 people are killed and 155 others are injured in fighting between the Dir and Marehan clans in central Somalia.[32]
  • 15 June — Al-Shabaab bombs a pickup truck carrying Major General Mohamed Dheere, commander of the 8th battalion of Sector 60 in Southwest State using IEDs in Ideeda, killing Dheere, a lieutenant, and other soldiers.[33]
  • 23 June — At least two children die from drowning, 11 houses collapse, and roads are washed out following heavy rain and flash floods in Mogadishu that affect 325 families.[34]
  • 28 June — Mohamed Osman Jawari, former two-time Speaker of the Federal Parliament of Somalia, dies in Mogadishu at the age of 79.[35]
  • 30 June — Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for a suicide car bombing targeting a Somali military camp near central Beledweyne that kills four people.[36]

July

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  • 8 July — Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for a roadside bomb attack in El-Werigow village, approximately 70 kilometers southwest of Mogadishu. The attack results in the death of a Ugandan military officer and injures six other soldiers.[37]
  • 13 July — Five suspected members of Al-Shabaab detained at the main prison of Mogadishu are killed in an attempted jailbreak along with three members of the security forces. Twenty-one others are injured.[38]
  • 14 July — Nine people are killed and 20 others are injured when a car bomb explodes outside a coffeehouse in Mogadishu, while customers were watching the Euro 2024 final.[39]
  • 15 July — In Abudwak, twelve people, including two soldiers, were killed in a clash between NISA soldiers and local militias over two truckloads of weapons that were illegally brought from Ethiopia.[40]
  • 22 July — At least 35 soldiers and over 80 Al-Shabaab fighters are killed after Al-Shabaab attempts to take three army bases. The Somali National Army safely disposes four car bombs around 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Kismayo, near the village of Buulo-Xaaji.[41]

August

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  • 2 August — At least 38 people are killed and more than 212 others are injured after Al-Shabaab launches an attack near the Beach View Hotel on Lido Beach in Mogadishu.[42]
  • 8 August – Elections in Somalia: The Council of Ministers approves a bill that would revert the country's voting system to universal suffrage, ending indirect voting. The bill is headed to the Federal Parliament to be voted upon.[43]
  • 17 August:
  • 21 August – An Al-Shabaab suicide car bomber blows himself up near a security checkpoint on the MogadishuAfgoye highway, killing five security officers and four civilians. Several others are injured.[46]
  • 27 August – The first batch of Egyptian military officers and equipment arrive in Mogadishu, marking the initial phase of a significant deployment that will see up to ten thousand Egyptian soldiers stationed in Somalia.[47]
  • 28 August – At least nine people are killed in fighting between SSC-Khatumo forces and Somaliland soldiers near the town of Goof, close to Erigavo in the southeastern part of the Sanaag region.[48]
  • 31 August – Al-Shabaab bombs several businesses in the Tabelaha Sheikh Ibrahim neighborhood of Garas Baley, Mogadishu, targeting shops that had complied with the government's directive to install CCTV cameras.[49]

September

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  • 14 September – At least five people are killed and eight others are injured in two bomb attacks in the Kaxda District of Mogadishu.[50]
  • 21 September – A military helicopter carrying international peacekeepers crashes near Mogadishu on its way to Baledogle Airfield. No fatalities are reported.[51]
  • 28 September – At least six people are killed and ten others in a car bombing outside a restaurant in Mogadishu.[52]

Holidays

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References

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