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| Country |  Somalia |
| Region | Banaadir |
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Hodan District (Somali : Degmada Hodan) is a district in the southeastern Banaadir region of Somalia. It is a neighborhood in the northwestern part of Mogadishu.
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| Country | Somalia |
| Region | Banaadir |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) |
Hodan District (Somali : Degmada Hodan) is a district in the southeastern Banaadir region of Somalia. It is a neighborhood in the northwestern part of Mogadishu.
On October 14, 2017, there were two truck bombings in the Hodan District, which killed at least 587 people in total and destroyed a hotel.
Banaadir is an administrative region (gobol) in southeastern Somalia. It covers the same area as the city of Mogadishu, which serves as the capital. It is bordered to the northwest by the Shabelle river, and to the southeast by the Indian Ocean. Although by far the smallest administrative region in Somalia, it has the largest population, estimated at 1,650,227 in 2014.
Hodan Nalayeh Secondary School, formerly Vaughan Secondary School, is a public secondary school in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It opened in 1989 by the York Region Board of Education and is currently overseen by the York Region District School Board.
Afmadow is a city in southern Somalia, located in the middle of the Juba region and bordered by Kenya, Badhadhe, Kismayo, Jamame, Jilib, Hagar, Bardhere and Elwaq in Somalia, 401 km southwest of the capital Mogadishu. It is home to a wide variety of wild animals, including the Big Five game. The vegetation in Afmadow consists of rich grassland, bounded by semi-desert. It is located northwest of Kismayo. Distance between Afmadow and Kismayo is 110 kilometers or 68 miles.
Ahmed Sheikh Ali Ahmed (Somali: Axmed Sheekh Cali Axmed [Buraale], (أحمد شيخ علي أحمد Burale is a Somali intellectual, author, lawyer and former judge who lives in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Elman Sports Club is a Somali sports club based in the Wadajir district of Mogadishu. It is best known for football team, which competes in the top level of Somali Premier League, Locally, it is known primarily by the nickname "The Yellows", which represents to "The Colour of team". It is known as the best team in Somalia, It is the most successful sports club in the country, and holds a national record of 15 official football trophies, Six Title of Somali Premier League, tree Somali General Daoud Cups, Five Somali Super Cups and One Somali Stars League.
The Battle of South Mogadishu occurred in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on February 24, 2009.
The Battle of Mogadishu (2009) started in May with an Islamist offensive, when rebels from al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam attacked and captured government bases in the capital of Mogadishu. The fighting soon spread, causing hundreds of casualties, and continued on at various levels of intensity until October. The battle's name usually includes the year, when referenced, in order to distinguish it amongst the nine major Battles of Mogadishu during the decades long Somali Civil War.
This is a 2011 timeline of events in the Somali Civil War (2009–present).
Hodan Nalayeh was a Somali-Canadian media executive, marketing consultant, social activist and entrepreneur. She was president of the Cultural Integration Agency and vice president of Sales & Programming Development of Cameraworks Productions International.
Hodan Ahmed is a Somali political activist. She helped form the Somali Women Parliamentary Association the Transitional Federal Parliament of Somalia, which was succeeded by the Federal Parliament of Somalia. She serves as a Senior Program Officer at the National Democratic Institute.
On 27 March 2015, Al-Shabaab militants launched an attack on the Makka al-Mukarama hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia. The siege ended a few hours later on 28 March, after a special forces unit of the Somali Armed Forces stormed the premises, recaptured it, and killed all five of the attackers. According to the Ministry of Information, around 20 people died during the standoff, including the perpetrators, security forces, hotel security guards and some civilians, with around 28 wounded. The special forces also rescued more than 50 hotel guests. President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud ordered an investigation into the attack, and the Ministry of Information announced that the federal government was slated to pass new laws to curb illicit firearms. On 8 May, the Makka al-Mukarama hotel officially reopened after having undergone renovations.
The Somali Museum of Minnesota is a cultural institution in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Minneapolis–Saint Paul metro area is home to the largest Somali immigrant and refugee population in the United States, after civil war in Somalia prompted large-scale displacement of the Somali people. The Somali Museum of Minnesota presents a collection of more than 1000 traditional nomadic artifacts from Somalia, as well as educational programming about Somali culture, arts events, and cross-cultural activities. It may now be the only museum in the world dedicated to preserving Somali culture and traditions.
Elmi Boodhari was a Somali poet and pioneer in the genre of Somali love poems. He is known among Somalis as the King of Romance. He was born near the border between Ethiopia and Somalia in 1908 and hailed from the Eidagale sub-clan.
Mouna-Hodan Ahmed is a writer from Djibouti, one of the few women writers in the country. Born into a family of five children, she completed her primary and secondary schooling in Djibouti before pursuing higher education in France. She then returned to her native country to teach. Her first novel, Les enfants du khat, was published in 2002.
On 14 October 2017, two truck bombings took place in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, killing at least 587 people and injuring 316 others. Almost all of the casualties were caused by one of the trucks, which detonated when the driver, while attempting to escape from security officials, crashed through a barrier and exploded in the Hodan District, destroying a hotel. The intended target of the attack is believed to have been a secure compound housing international agencies and troops. The second blast happened close by, killing two people. A third explosives-laden truck was captured by police.
The 2013 Mogadishu Turkish embassy attack occurred on 27 July 2013 when al-Shaabab militants attacked the Turkish embassy in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, killing 3 people and injuring 9 others. At around 5:00 p.m. a minivan rigged with explosives detonated near the embassy compound. The explosion was followed by three armed militants attempting to storm the compound on foot, but they were repelled and killed by Turkish and Somali security guards.
Hodan Hassan is an American politician and member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she represents District 62A in the central Twin Cities metropolitan area.
On 12 July 2019, four al-Shabaab gunmen attacked the Asasey Hotel in Kismayo, Jubaland, Somalia, after the other attacker breached the gate with a car bomb.
Events in the year 2019 in Somalia.
Mohamed Abdi Ware is a Somali politician. He was the president of Hirshabelle, assumed office on 16 September 2017.
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