Ten of Somalia’s 15 government ministers announced their resignations on Saturday.
Insurgents have battled troops allied to Somalia’s government in some of the worst fighting in the country in weeks, killing at least 20 people.
Ethiopian troops allied to Somalia’s shaky government shot dead 13 civilians after an explosion killed two soldiers on Wednesday, witnesses in south-western Somalia said. Witness Mohamud Ahmed Nur said what appeared to be a remote-controlled land mine hit the Ethiopian troops patrolling Baidoa town and killed two soldiers.
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/ 26 December 2007
Gunmen threw grenades at the home of the regional police chief in south-western Somalia, killing two of his grandchildren and a bodyguard while he escaped injury, authorities said on Tuesday. Seven other family members were wounded in the Monday-night attack, which police said was a failed assassination attempt.
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/ 11 October 2007
A suicide bomber drove a pickup truck filled with explosives into a Somali army base, killing himself and two others near a hotel where the prime minister set up temporary headquarters, officials said on Thursday. The explosion late on Wednesday, in the southern town of Baidoa, targeted a base manned mostly by Ethiopian troops.
Gunmen released a cargo plane and its Russian crew that had been hijacked in northern Somalia, authorities said on Friday. Muse Gelle Yusuf, the governor of the northern Bari region where the plane was taken on Thursday, said that clan elders had managed to convince the two young gunmen to release the plane and its cargo.
Somali rivals both claimed control of a disputed northern town on Tuesday after deadly clashes, and more fighting was feared. Tensions have been increasing in the normally calm north because of a border dispute between autonomous Puntland region and the breakaway republic of Somaliland.
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/ 19 September 2007
An influential Somali radio station went off the air on Wednesday after two government soldiers threatened to pound the building with ”machine guns and anti-aircraft missiles”, the radio station’s director said. Shabelle radio shut down one day after police searching for insurgents opened fire outside the station, killing one person.
Mohamed Hussein heard the grenade explode and he froze. He knew what was coming next, because he has been through it before: gunfire coming from every direction as soldiers frantically tried to kill the person who had thrown the weapon. When the shots finally stopped, Hussein saw four bloodied corpses, all of them civilians.
At least eight people were killed in attacks in southern and central Somalia, during which four people were also wounded, witnesses said on Tuesday. In a one-hour gun battle between 40 heavily armed insurgents and government soldiers in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, two men and a four year-old child were killed, said Abdi Mo’alin Mohamed, a clan elder.