2019 in Somalia
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- President: Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (since 16 February 2017)
- Prime Minister: Hassan Ali Khaire (since 1 March 2017)
Events
February
- 4 February – A bombing at a shopping mall in Mogadishu kills 11 people[1]
- 7 February – 2019 Somali First Division season begins[2]
- 23 February – Two al-Shabab militants and two civilians were killed in an AFRICON airstrike near Kunyo Barrow.[3]
- 28 February – A bombing near the Maka al-Mukarama hotel in Mogadishu kills over 30 people
July
- 12 July – Asasey Hotel attack
- 24 July – A bombing at a municipal government office in Mogadishu kills seven people, including the mayor
August
- 19–31 August – Somalia at the 2019 African Games
December
- 7 December – Cyclone Pawan makes landfall at Bosaso[4]
- 28 December – A bombing at the Ex-Control Afgoye police checkpoint in Mogadishu kills 85 people[5]
Deaths
- 12 July – Hodan Nalayeh (born 1969), media executive, Asasey Hotel attack[6]
- 1 August – Abdirahman Omar Osman, (born 1965), Minister of Commerce and Industry (2015–2017) and Mayor of Mogadishu (since 2018), bombing[7]
- 20 November – Almaas Elman, peace and human rights activist, shot[8]
