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/ 5 February 2007
Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi opened a reconciliation workshop in Mogadishu on Monday designed to foster peace amid guerrilla-style attacks in the volatile Horn of Africa nation. Assailants fired four rockets at Mogadishu port hours before Gedi began the week-long meeting of about 200 traditional leaders.
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/ 4 February 2007
The war in Somalia ruined my first attempt to marry Anisa on New Year’s Eve. I had planned to throw a splendid party in the central town of Baidoa, my young bride’s hometown, then entertain friends in the capital Mogadishu, where I live. But at the eleventh hour, I was forced to cancel the nuptials.
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/ 12 January 2007
Somali warlords agreed on Friday to merge their forces into a new national army to tame the anarchic nation, but fighting outside the presidential palace where they met showed how hard that task will be. Warlord gunmen trying to force their way inside fought Somali troops and the shoot-out killed a handful of people.
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/ 29 December 2006
Somali government troops and their Ethiopian allies took control of the former United States embassy building in Mogadishu on Friday, tightening their hold on the capital after Islamist rivals fled. The streets of Mogadishu were calm and residents began venturing out of their homes.
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/ 29 December 2006
Triumphant Somali government forces and their Ethiopian allies marched into Mogadishu on Thursday after Islamist rivals abandoned the war-scarred capital they had held for six months. The flight of the Islamists was a dramatic turn-around in the Horn of Africa nation after they had spread across the south imposing sharia rule and confined the interim government to its base in Baidoa.
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/ 28 December 2006
Ethiopian and Somali government troops held the main routes into Mogadishu and were poised to capture Somalia’s capital after Islamist rivals deserted their former base on Thursday. Residents said the coastal city slid into chaos with outbreaks of looting and gunfire as a leader of the Somalia Islamic Courts Council said their top officials had left.
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/ 28 December 2006
Ethiopian and Somali government troops advanced to 30km from Islamist-held Mogadishu on Wednesday, but a representative said they would besiege the Somali capital rather than attack it. ”We are not going to fight for Mogadishu, to avoid civilian casualties. Our troops will surround Mogadishu until they [the Islamists] surrender,” Somali Ambassador Abdikarin Farah told reporters in Addis Ababa.
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/ 27 December 2006
Somalia’s pro-government troops seized a key southern town from their Islamist rivals on Wednesday in the closest battle yet to the religious movement’s Mogadishu stronghold, witnesses said. ”The government has taken over Jowhar. I can see government troops on top of armoured vehicles chasing Islamists troops,” resident Mahamud Ismail said.
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/ 25 December 2006
Ethiopian warplanes attacked two Islamist-held airfields in Somalia on Monday, witnesses said, wounding at least one person and further escalating a conflict that threatens to engulf the Horn of Africa in war. The attacks came the morning after Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi formally declared war on the Islamists.
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/ 7 November 2006
Fighting flared on Monday between Islamist forces and troops from the semi-autonomous northern enclave of Puntland in Somalia, which many fear is on the verge of all-out war, the Islamists said. But a minister in the Puntland administration denied that fighting had taken place.