Tags: Somalia

Met with the president and other newly-installed political leaders

A U.N-proposed ban

Wendy Sherman has praised the new Somalian government's "extraordinary" work

Though the government is consolidating power and the civil war of the late 2000s is finally over, it's been the bloodiest year on record for local media

Not illuminated for decades

The vast majority were targeted assassinations

First ambassador from Europe since the last government collapsed in 1991

Wanted to topple Mogadishu government

The largest mass arrest in months for the newly-formed government

AU peacekeepers remain in the country as a new government consolidates power and the Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabaab appears on the run

Somali forces have expelled the Al-Qaeda affiliate from its last stronghold in the country but the extremists vow to strike back

One was gunned down, the other beheaded as Somalia's first government in two decades settles into Mogadishu

Hope to dislodge al Shabaab from its last stronghold

Somalia's Al-Qaeda affiliate may be planning to infiltrate Somalia's security forces as the new president has Islamist ties

The presence of a new government has not dampened the rate at which journalists in the country are being killed

Attempt to destroy facilities of Islamic militant group

AU colonel says members of Al-Shabaab surrendered to authorities while armed and renounced their allegiance to the Al-Qaeda affiliate

Hits Mogadishu

Somalia's new president has been moved to a secure compound after surviving an assassination attempt

Somalia's president is safe after a bomb went off at a hotel where he was meeting with Kenyan officials.