Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.

Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, simply known as Al-Shabaab, is a transnational Wahhabi-Salafi Jihadist militant organization. It is involved in the ongoing Somali Civil War, controlling a non-contiguous network of primarily rural areas in Southern Somalia that some consider a quasi-state. The…