Английская Википедия:2023 in Somalia

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Year in Somalia Events in the year 2023 in Somalia.

Incumbents

• President: Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
• Prime Minister: Hamza Abdi Barre
• Speaker of the House: Abdi Hashi Abdullahi

Events

Ongoing – Somali Civil War (2009–present) (2023 timeline of the Somali Civil War); COVID-19 pandemic in Somalia

January

• 4 January – Mahas bombings: 35 people are killed and many others wounded by al-Shabaab jihadists in a double car bombing in Mahas District, Hiran.
• 6 January –
  • Al-Shabaab gunmen storm a village in Hirshabelle State, killing at least six people. The village was captured from al-Shabab the previous week.
  • At least 20 people are killed and many more injured during an ambush by al-Shabaab insurgents at a government base at the Hilowle Gaab village.
• 16 January –
  • The Somali Armed Forces claim it recaptured the port town of Harardhere from Al-Shabaab militants.
  • According to a Puntland officer, Somali forces allied with regional militias also took the town of El Dhere.
• 17 January – Seven soldiers, including a commander, are killed when al-Shabaab terrorists attack a base in Hawadley with a suicide car bomb and gunmen.
• 26 January – A U.S. military raid in northern Somalia kills senior Islamic State member Bilal al-Sudani and ten other insurgents. No U.S. military casualties are reported in the operation, which was ordered by U.S. President Joe Biden.

March

• 21 March – The Somali National Army and pro-government militants kill 30 al-Shabaab jihadists and injure many others while defending a military base in the south of the country.

May

• 2 May – Somali forces kill 67 al-Shabaab militants and seize many weapons in a continuation of offensives against the group in the Mudug region.
• 26 May – Fifty-four Ugandan soldiers are killed after Al-Shabaab gunmen storm an AMISOM base in Bulomarer.
• 28 May – Somalia announces that beginning next year, the country will change to a presidential system and elect officials by direct vote, ending more than three decades of indirect voting where lawmakers elected the country's leaders with the approval of clan and elderly leaders.

June

• 10 June –
  • 2023 Mogadishu hotel attack: Six civilians and three soldiers are killed and ten others are injured by al-Shabaab at a hotel in Lido Beach, Mogadishu. All seven attackers are also killed.
  • At least 27 people died, most children, and 53 were injured after remnants of an old bomb exploded in the Murale village in the Janaale area of the eastern Lower Shabelle region.
• 20 June – Brig-Gen Mohydin is appointed as the Chief of the defense force Somali National Army (SNA), replacing Maj- Gen Odowa Yusuf Rage.
• June 20 – At least 26 people died, 16 of them soldiers, and 30 others wounded after heavy fighting broke out in Puntland. This is after the Puntland parliament voted for a one-man-one vote election with multiple political parties.

July

• 13 July – Four people are killed in Jubaland, Somalia, as al-Shabaab is confirmed as having captured a military base in the area which had been handed to Somalia by the Kenyan military on June 29.

September

• 23 September – 2023 Beledweyne bombing: At least 20 people are killed in a suicide car bombing at a checkpoint in Beledweyne, Hiran.

October

• 19 October – Khatumo is reestablished as one of the federal states of Somalia by the Somali government.

November

• 6 November – At least 53 people in Somalia are killed during floods caused by significant rainfall. Thousands of homes, bridges and roads are destroyed and over half a million are displaced.

December

• 1 December –
  • Somalia becomes an official member state of the East African Community.
  • The United Nation Security Council unanimously votes to remove the arms embargo on the Somalian government and military.
• 22 December – A dhow trading vessel is seized by heavily-armed pirates near the town of Eyl off the coast of Puntland, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations reports, citing military authorities.

Deaths

• 26 January – Bilal al-Sudani, terrorist, military raid.
• 5 April – Ismail Mahmud Hurre, 80, politician, minister of foreign affairs (2000–2002, 2006–2007).
• 16 August – Abwan Jama Kadiye, 73, poet and writer, mortar shelling.

See also

• 2023 in Somaliland
• COVID-19 pandemic in Africa