Mortars fired in Mogadishu after peacekeepers land
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More than a dozen mortar bombs were fired at Mogadishu's airport on Tuesday shortly after Ugandan soldiers landed there as the vanguard of an African Union peacekeeping force.
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At least seven mortar shells were fired at Mogadishu's airport Monday during a welcoming ceremony as Ugandan peacekeepers arrived in the Somali capital, a journalist who witnessed the attack told CNN.
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Military officials from Burundi were in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday to prepare the long-awaited deployment of peacekeepers.
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Islamic militants fired mortar shells and guns in the Somali capital on Thursday, sparking crossfire with Ethiopian troops and their Somali government allies that killed at least 16 people, witnesses said.
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A mortar bomb struck a residential area of eastern Mogadishu on Thursday, wounding a young girl in the latest in a string of almost daily attacks in the chaotic seaside capital, residents said.
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Suspected Islamist insurgents hurled at least seven grenades at a United Nations compound in Mogadishu but no one was hurt, a U.N. source said on Saturday.
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Five mortar bombs struck northern Mogadishu on Monday, killing at least three people, wounding several others and flattening homes in the Somali capital's latest outbreak of post-war violence, witnesses said.
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Gunmen fired mortars at the Somali president's house on Sunday, hours after the country's new prime minister arrived in Mogadishu for the first time since he was sworn in last November, a presidential aide said.
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Attackers detonated a landmine near Mogadishu port on Friday, hours after two people were killed trying to bury another mine in the dangerous Somali capital, an official said.
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More than a dozen mortar bombs were fired at Mogadishu's international airport on Tuesday shortly after Ugandan soldiers landed there as the vanguard of an African Union peacekeeping force, a Reuters reporter said.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist fighters in the   Somali port city of Kismayo opened fire on Monday toward   residents burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to   protest against the Islamist takeover of the city hours before.
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Gunmen fired rockets near Mogadishu's airport on Wednesday, witnesses said, a day after African peacekeepers started arriving to help the interim government restore order in lawless Somalia.
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A Somali independent radio station reports coming under sustained gunfire from government troops
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The first African Union peacekeepers arrived in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday aboard a cargo plane, the AU said.
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Assailants fired four rockets at Mogadishu port on Monday in the latest guerrilla-style attack in post-war Somalia, authorities said.
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A series of blasts hit the Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday, witnesses said, a day after Ugandan peacekeepers started arriving in the lawless Horn of Africa country.
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Insurgents fire mortars at the Somali president's residence, a few hours after his arrival in the capital.