2019 in Somalia

Events in the year 2019 in Somalia.

Incumbents

 * President: Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (since 16 February 2017)
 * Prime Minister: Hassan Ali Khaire (since 1 March 2017)

Events

 * Somali Civil War (2009–present)

February

 * 4 February – A bombing at a shopping mall in Mogadishu kills 11 people
 * 7 February – 2019 Somali First Division season begins
 * 23 February – Two al-Shabab militants and two civilians were killed in an AFRICON airstrike near Kunyo Barrow.
 * 28 February – A bombing near the Maka al-Mukarama hotel in Mogadishu kills over 30 people

July

 * 12 July – Asasey Hotel attack
 * 24 July – A bombing at a municipal government office in Mogadishu kills seven people, including the mayor

August

 * 19–31 August – Somalia at the 2019 African Games

December

 * 7 December – Cyclone Pawan makes landfall at Bosaso
 * 28 December – A bombing at the Ex-Control Afgoye police checkpoint in Mogadishu kills 85 people

Deaths

 * 12 July – Hodan Nalayeh (born 1969), media executive, Asasey Hotel attack
 * 1 August – Abdirahman Omar Osman, (born 1965), Minister of Commerce and Industry (2015–2017) and Mayor of Mogadishu (since 2018), bombing
 * 20 November – Almaas Elman, peace and human rights activist, shot