This archive report was first published on 11 July 2019.
On July 10, 2019, Somalia carried out the execution of three men convicted of participating in the 2017 bombing of a Mogadishu hotel that killed 18 people.
The men were accused of being members of the militant group al Shabaab and were among the attackers in the bombing of the Nasahablod Two Hotel.
According to Somalia's state news agency, the men were executed by gunshot.
Al Shabaab, a militant group trying to topple Somalia's central government, was ejected from Mogadishu in 2011 and has since been driven from most of its other strongholds.
However, the group remains a threat, frequently carrying out bombings in Somalia and neighboring Kenya, whose troops form part of the African Union-mandated peacekeeping force that helps defend the Somali government.
