Timeline of the War in Somalia

Gunmen from Somali Islamist group Shabaab killed a regional lawmaker on April 18 after he had taken his wife to hospital in the capital Mogadishu, the group and officials said.

Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab militants April 14 blasted their way into the higher education ministry with a car bomb before storming the building, killing nine people.

Police and witnesses said the car bomb caused a huge explosion which allowed the gunmen to force their way into the fortified building.

At least nine people were killed when suspected gunmen from Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab stormed the building of Somalia's Higher Education Ministry on Tuesday, triggering a shootout with security forces.

A spokesman for Al-Shabaab, which is linked to al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack in the centre of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, the CNN reported.

At least 147 people have died in Thursday's attack on a university college dormitory in Kenya, according to the latest count announced by the country's Disaster Operations Centre.

Al-Shabaab, an Islamist militant group affiliated to al-Qaeda, has claimed responsibility for the attack in which four suspected terrorists were killed by security forces. A fifth suspect was arrested.

Gunmen have killed at least fifteen people and taken students as hostages at Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya near the border with Somalia.

According to aid workers and police, about 30 people were injured as five masked gunmen stormed the building of the university, the BBC reports.

Gunmen barged at a Garissa University College in Kenya, near the border with Somalia, and attacked people at the university compounds. Two people manning the university gate have been killed and four injured according to figures so far, however the extent of the damage is still uncleara.

Bullet-pocked walls and overturned chairs mark the reception area of a prominent hotel in the Somali capital following an attack that killed at least 21, including six attackers Blood spattered utensils, bullet-pocked walls and overturned chairs mark the reception area of a prominent hotel in the Somali capital following an attack by Islamic extremists that killed at least 21, including

Somali troops regained full control of a hotel, which extremist gunmen stormed and occupied for 12 hours following a suicide attack, which killed at least 17 people and left dozens injured.

According to information, Somalia's permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva was among those killed in the attack on the hotel in Mogadishu, the BBC reports.

Canadian police have identified the suspected gunman who killed a soldier at the National War Memorial in Ottawa before being shot dead by a security guard on Wednesday.

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Somali troops backed by African peacekeepers on Oct. 5 recaptured the last major port in Somalia held by the Shebab, removing a key source of revenue for the Islamist militia