The Somali sengi looks like a rodent, leaps like a gazelle and eats insects with an aardvark-like trunk.

A Somali police officer said a car bomb went off at a beachside hotel in Mogadishu, the capital, followed by heavy gunfire.

A car bomb exploded at the gates of a military base in Somalia's capital Saturday, killing at least eight soldiers and wounding 14 others, with the toll expected to rise, police said.

Somalia's parliament ousted Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire in a no-confidence vote on Saturday, as a simmering power struggle between him and the president came to the fore.

A police officer in Mogadishu has been arrested in the fatal shooting of at least one civilian, according to fellow officer Ahmed Muse.

Some of those affected are close relatives of refugees who are already in the U.S., while others are from 11 countries, including Egypt, Iran and Somalia, that Trump singled out, citing security reasons.

The Turkish construction workers appeared to be the bomber's target, Somali police Col. Abdi Abdullahi said.

Qali Ibrahim frantically dialed her husband’s mobile phone on Saturday morning. Minutes earlier he had left home, hammer and saw in hand, headed out for a day of construction work. “The number you are dialing is not reachable," his mobile responded.

Hundreds of Mogadishu residents began to donate blood in response to desperate appeals.

Preliminary investigations show Almaas Elman was killed by a stray bullet this week in Mogadishu.