A short-lived settlement was established in Halule, and plans were made by Karl Ludwig Jühlke and Joachim Graf von Pfeil, respectively, to build the Hohenzollernhafen in Wubushi Bay.

In October 1977, the special police unit GSG 9 successfully freed the passengers of Lufthansa Flight 181 hijacked by Palestinian terrorists at Mogadishu International Airport.

Reunified Germany provided aid to alleviate the famine in the country in 1992, and a year later German blue helmets were deployed to the UN operation UNOSOM II.

In 2014, the German Bundestag approved the training of Somali security forces as part of the EU mission EUTM Somalia.

[5] In addition to economic aid, Germany is also assisting the country in building democratic and federal state structures and establishing a functioning police force.