Britain’s international development secretary on Wednesday warned that up to 400 000 children could die if urgent action was not taken.
Somalia’s acting Prime Minister, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, was given the job full time on Thursday by President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed.
Somalia’s hard-line Islamist rebel group al-Shabaab has ordered the UN food agency to halt all operations and leave the failed country.
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/ 4 December 2009
A suicide bomber disguised as a veiled woman killed at least 19 people including three Somali government ministers on Thursday.
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/ 3 December 2009
An explosion that tore through a hotel in Somalia’s lawless capital, Mogadishu, on Thursday killed three government ministers.
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/ 23 October 2009
Somalia’s hard-line al-Shabaab insurgents said they will strike the capitals of Burundi and Uganda in revenge for rocket attacks by peacekeepers.
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/ 22 October 2009
Artillery battles between Islamist insurgents, Somali government forces and AU peacekeepers killed at least 30 people on Thursday.
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/ 17 September 2009
Two big explosions rocked an African Union peacekeeping base in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday, wounding several troops, witnesses said.
Somali government troops backed by African Union peacekeepers battled insurgents on Sunday in clashes that killed at least 43 people.
Islamist insurgents closed in on Somalia’s coastal capital after seizing another strategic town north of Mogadishu on Monday.