2019 in Somalia

Events in the year 2019 in Somalia.

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See also:	History of Somalia List of years in Somalia

Incumbents

• President: Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (since 16 February 2017)
• Prime Minister: Hassan Ali Khaire (since 1 March 2017)

Events

• Somali Civil War (2009–present)

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]

See also

• 2019 in Somaliland

Notes