Attack in Mogadishu on March 23, 2019

In an attack in Mogadishu on March 23, 2019 by the militant militia al-Shabaab in the capital of Somalia by a vehicle carrying explosives, at least 15 people were killed and 20 others were injured. The target of the terrorist attack was a government building, at the gates of which the militiamen detonated a bomb, after which at least five men stormed the building. Labor Minister Saqar Ibrahim Abdalla was also among the dead .

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In the Somali civil war , the Islamist al-Shabaab militia tried to overthrow Somalia's western-backed government by force. As of 2011, the organization that carried out armed attacks was driven out of Mogadishu and has now lost most of its strongholds. But the organization remains dangerous: it carried out several bomb attacks in Somalia and Kenya. Kenya supports the Somali government, among other things through a contingent at the Mission of the African Union in Somalia (AMISOM).

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↑ ^a ^b Al Shabaab attack on Somali ministry in Mogadishu kills at least 15 . In: Reuters . March 23, 2019 ( reuters.com [accessed March 23, 2019]).
↑ Abdi Sheikh: Al Shabaab attack on Somali government building ends with at least 15 dead. Retrieved March 24, 2019 (American English).
^ Associated Press: Five killed in Islamist attack on government building in Somalia . In: The Guardian . March 23, 2019, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed March 23, 2019]).

[:0-1] Al Shabaab attack on Somali ministry in Mogadishu kills at least 15 . In: Reuters . March 23, 2019 ( reuters.com [accessed March 23, 2019]).

[2] Abdi Sheikh: Al Shabaab attack on Somali government building ends with at least 15 dead. Retrieved March 24, 2019 (American English).

[3] Associated Press: Five killed in Islamist attack on government building in Somalia . In: The Guardian . March 23, 2019, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed March 23, 2019]).