A lull during fierce fighting gave Hassan Mohamud Mohamed time to hire a boy to wash the blood from his vehicle.
Islamist fighters in Somalia said on Friday that they seized food from the World Food Programme from markets in Mogadishu.
A Somali militant group with links to al-Qaeda on Monday announced it had banned three Christian aid agencies from its territory.
Four people wounded, including two African Union troops, in a suicide attack outside an AU base earlier Tuesday.
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/ 12 November 2009
Gunmen have killed a top Somali judge who had sentenced many pirates and human traffickers to long jail terms, a minister said on Thursday.
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/ 22 October 2009
Islamic insurgents fired mortars at Somalia’s airport as the president was boarding a plane on Thursday, sparking battles that killed about 20 people.
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/ 7 September 2009
A deal to swap three hostages held by pirates with 23 prisoners accused of piracy was halted by Saudi authorities, officials said on Monday.
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/ 4 February 2009
A Somali journalist says masked gunmen have killed the director of Somalia’s largest media company at a market in the country’s capital.
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/ 17 January 2009
About 3 000 Somalis marched through the streets of the war-scarred capital, Mogadishu, on Friday, celebrating the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops.
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/ 10 December 2008
Ahmed Dahir Suleyman is cagey as he talks about the global network that funds and supports piracy off the coast of Somalia.