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/ 19 June 2007

Somali presidential spokesperson shot twice

Somalia’s presidential spokesperson was shot twice at close range in the latest assassination attempt on government officials in the Horn of Africa nation, officials said on Tuesday. ”He was shot in the neck and near the jaw,” a security source told Reuters. ”I think the gunman was aiming for the head.”

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/ 13 June 2007

Blow as Somali peace conference is postponed

Organisers of a national reconciliation conference in Somalia due to start on Thursday have postponed it for one month in another blow to peace efforts in the chaotic Horn of Africa nation. ”The National Reconciliation Committee has decided to postpone the conference …,” committee chairperson Ali Mahdi Mohamed said.

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/ 16 May 2007

Blast hits AU convoy in Somalia

A remote-controlled bomb killed four African Union peacekeepers from Uganda and wounded five more when it hit their convoy in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, on Wednesday, the AU said. It was the first attack of its kind against the mission’s troops, which previously had only been shot at, said an AU security source, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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/ 20 February 2007

Heavy fighting rocks Mogadishu

Mortar bombs hit several parts of Mogadishu before dawn on Tuesday, killing at least 16 people in one of the fiercest bombardments since an Islamist movement was chased from Somalia’s capital last month. The hilltop presidential palace, Villa Somalia, and the coastal city’s defence headquarters were among the targets hit.

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/ 14 February 2007

Somalis flee mayhem of Mogadishu

Her possessions and her two children at her side in a dusty bus stop in Mogadishu, Asha Mohamed has decided to forsake Somalia’s capital city for any place with fewer explosions. ”I am running away from the continuous mortar and rocket attacks,” Mohamed said on Wednesday as her son played on an old mattress. ”I have survived several attacks.”

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/ 13 February 2007

Uganda votes to send troops to Somalia

Uganda’s Parliament voted on Tuesday to send peacekeeping troops to Somalia to help stem an unrelenting wave of hit-and-run attacks by insurgents on the interim government in Mogadishu. About 500 residents have begun fleeing their homes in the capital, fearing more attacks on government installations and the administration’s Ethiopian allies.

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/ 13 February 2007

Somali PM vows to pursue Islamists

Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi vowed on Tuesday to bring ousted Islamists to justice after the latest spate of post-war attacks targeted a minister’s house and the port in Mogadishu. Gunmen also attacked a police station in the Somali capital, as insecurity rose in the chaotic Horn of Africa nation.

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/ 9 February 2007

Somali protesters threaten foreign troops

Hundreds of Mogadishu residents took to the streets after Friday prayers to protest, burn flags and threaten attacks against a proposed deployment of African peacekeepers in the Horn of Africa nation. Nearly 800 people took part in two demonstrations at the central Tarbuunka Square and in a north Mogadishu neighbourhood.