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The people of 8 March

2 people in 2 stories, 33 deaths recorded, 2025

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

President of Somalia (2012–2017; since 2022)

  1. Al Shabaab seizes the town of Cadale and some villages including Bushra Sheekh, Ceel Xarar and Xaruur, around 70 km (43 mi) of Mogadishu. Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud asks Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for help. Ethiopia sends ten thousand ENDF troops near the Ethiopia–Somalia border.

    Conflict · 8 Mar · with Abiy Ahmed

Marius Lindvik

Norwegian ski jumper (born 1998)

  1. Two ski jumpers from the Norwegian ski jumping team, Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang, are disqualified for cheating and Lindvik loses the silver in the men's individual normal hill in Granåsen, Trondheim.

    Sport · 8 Mar · with Johann André Forfang

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