Timeline of Al-Shabaab related events

This article contains a timeline of events for the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab.
2020.
December 10: United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) kill multiple al-Shabaab explosives experts in two airstrikes on a compound near Jilib, Somalia.
December 24: Somali security forces kill 7 al-Shabaab militants in an operation in Garbaharey in the southern region of Gedo,
2021.
January 31: 80 year old General Mohamed Nur Galal, who ousted Siad Barre in 1991 was killed in an attack on Hotel Afrik in Mogadishu. At least five civilians and four gunmen were killed and ten people were injured in the attack. Al Shabaab said that Galal was their main target.
Al Shabaab claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb on 7th February 2021 which killed twelve people from the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), in the Hodan district of Mogadishu, where political leaders had met to try to resolve a deadlock over the presidential elections which were due to be held on 8th February 2021. Fatalities included Abdirashid Abdunur, the head of NISA in Dhusamareb.