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/ 23 February 2010
Al-Shabaab’s religious police are imposing a reign of terror — as well as crew cuts and bushy beards — on Somalia’s youth.
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/ 18 February 2010
Islamist insurgents and fighters from Somalia’s government forces mingle peacefully at a weapons market, but both sides are stocking up.
Somali pirates said on Friday they had freed a Saudi-owned supertanker, whose capture nearly two months ago wreaked panic in international shipping.
Somali refugees in Kenya are losing hope of ever returning to their home where rival groups are again battling for control.
Stray bullets and molesters are only some of the dangers 11-year-old Abdi Mohamed Abdusamad faces when he chooses a place to sleep on the streets of Mogadishu. War and poverty have thrown thousands of children on to the streets of the Somali capital, leaving them exposed to disease, drugs and sexual violence.
After a months-long delay, the latest Somali peace conference is due to start in Mogadishu on Sunday but hopes of a breakthrough remain low amid raging violence and a boycott by key players. The conference was called by the transitional federal government after it defeated an Islamist movement with the help of Ethiopia in January.
The Somali president has warned that ”terrorists” were threatening his shattered country’s security and slammed international donors for failing to help as promised, in an interview with Agence France-Presse. An Ethiopian-backed government offensive in Mogadishu last month ended weeks of clashes with Islamist-led insurgents.
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/ 14 January 2007
Distorted woofers blare out Britney Spears tracks, noisy hawkers are back and deafening gunfire is frequent: the familiar chaos has made a swift return after Mogadishu’s brief brush with Islamist rule. It is back to business as usual for residents of the Indian Ocean city.
Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed on Monday arrived in the capital, Mogadishu, for the first time since he was elected in 2004 while his Ethiopia-backed government struggles to exert authority over the city. Yusuf was welcomed at the capital’s main airport by Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi under tight security.
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/ 2 November 2006
Somalia’s weak government and the powerful Islamists on Thursday traded barbs, escalating fears of a full-scale war, a day after peace talks aimed at easing tension in the country collapsed. As threats of war mounted at home, neighbouring Ethiopia warned that the Islamists were ”making conflict inevitable” by refusing to meet the for peace talks.