3 Emirati soldiers and a Bahraini officer were killed in an attack in Mogadishu. The UAE Ministry of Defense announced that 3 members of the UAE Armed Forces and an officer from the Bahrain Defense Force were killed.

Somalia has been waging a war against the Al-Shabaab Mujahideen movement, which was established in early 2004 and is ideologically affiliated with Al-Qaeda. The Somali President visited the hospital that received the wounded Emirati officers who were injured in the attack.