ArmedConflictLocation List

Id Latitude Longitude Country Geo Name Id Description
5,763,389 2.02053 45.28967 Somalia Unidentified men armed with AK47 and wearing military uniforms - probably members of TFG security forces - opened fire at a food distribution site near Haji Dool Garage (Medina) on 24/03. The distribution was organized by an INGO part of the OIC coordination. One or two militiamen and two civilians were reported killed while three other civilians were injured. No looting took place.
5,763,393 2.04555 45.34 Somalia Three men armed with pistols shot at youths playing video-games in an entertainment center in Boondheere District in the evening of 24/03. One young boy was reportedly killed and another one injured. It is the third time a video-game center has been attacked by men armed with pistols or grenades in Mogadishu since December 2011.
5,763,397 2.05492 45.33 Somalia A businessman was shot and killed and two of his colleagues injured when two men armed with pistols opened fire at them when he was closing his shop in Arwo-Itko area (Wardhiigley) in the evening of 24/03. The attackers are suspected to be AS sympathizers as several NSA soldiers usually spend the end of the day in the shop. The victim could have been considered as being a NSA informant.
5,763,401 3.80958 43.24628 Somalia AS militias in Waajid reportedly arrested a well-known businessman in his house and executed him in the center of the town on 24/03. The man was used to be an active militia leader during the warlord's era but had disengaged from all political activity after AS took over Waajid town in 2009. It is reported that AS forces that had vacated Xudur on 22/03 accused the victim of spying for anti-AS and Ethiopian forces.
5,763,405 4.73598 45.20427 Somalia SVS militias carried a search operation in villages on the outskirts of Beled Weyne and reportedly killed a man and his son who they accused of being AS militants. Local residents however report that the two victims were local farmers.
5,763,409 5.30825 45.87737 Somalia ENDF and ASWJ troops were reported to be moving towards Maxaas and Ceel Buur from Guri-Ceel and Dhusamareeb and to have taken War-Dhumaale and Goobo (between Guri-Ceel and Maxaas, 12km N of Maxaas) on 25/03.
5,763,413 2.02921 45.30026 Somalia AS militias carried out a mortar attack against Villa Baidoa in the end of the afternoon of 25/03. Two mortar rounds landed inside Villa Baidoa. Casualties could not be established.
5,763,417 2.04803 45.32 Somalia A RCIED exploded in Shanta-Geed area (Hawl-Wadaag) in the end of the afternoon of 25/03. It was reported that the perpetrators detonated the device after they learned that an AMISOM/TFG EOD team was on its way to neutralize it.
5,763,421 2.05492 45.33 Somalia Several mortar rounds reportedly fired by AS militias fell in or close to IDP settlements in Beerta Darawiishta area (Wardhiigley) in the night of 25/03. Two civilians were reported killed and seven others injured. The rounds were probably targeting TFG positions in former Hotel Bulsho (north of the Parliament building and Sayidka Junction).
5,763,424 9.55975 44.06678 Somalia The campaign of demolition of illegal businesses ordered by the Municipality of Hargeisa continued on 25/03 and led again to a confrontation between the Somaliland police and local residents in the south of Hargeisa in the vicinity of the ex-ENC compound. Police officers had to fire in the air to disperse the owners of the shops who were opposing the operation. No injuries were reported but five persons were arrested by the Somaliland police.