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/ 27 October 2009
Somali pirates said on Tuesday they had seized a yacht with a British couple aboard and were taking the vessel to the Horn of Africa nation.
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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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/ 28 September 2009
Somali government troops routed Islamist insurgents from a strategic central town after launching a pre-dawn assault on Monday, witnesses said.
Fighting erupted between Islamist rebels, government forces and AU peacekeepers in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least 22 people.
One of Somalia’s militant Islamist rebel groups was holding two French security men on Wednesday, police said.
A suicide car bomber targeted Somalia’s security minister in his hotel in the central town of Baladwayne on Thursday, witnesses said.
Ethiopia’s government on Tuesday denied reports from Somali residents that it had sent soldiers back into the neighbouring Horn of Africa country.
Thousands of residents fled bomb-blasted north Mogadishu on Tuesday where fighting has killed at least 113 civilians.
US special forces freed an American ship’s captain by killing three Somali pirates who held him hostage in a lifeboat, ending a five-day stand-off.
Pirates sailed a hijacked German freighter toward a lifeboat off Somalia early on Saturday to help comrades holding an American ship captain hostage.