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/ 21 September 2009
Islamist insurgents battled government forces in western Somalia during which at least 17 people were killed, elders said on Monday.
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/ 18 September 2009
The African Union’s Somalia mission reeled on Friday from twin suicide attacks on its headquarters.
Hooded Somali Islamist militiamen on Thursday chopped off the right hand and left foot of four thieves in Mogadishu.
Somalia’s president on Monday declared a state of emergency in a bid to contain a deadly six-week-old insurgent offensive.
Somalia’s embattled President, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, scrambled to salvage his six-month-old administration on Monday.
Somalia’s government was reeling on Friday from an insurgent suicide bombing that killed its security minister and 19 other people.
Terrified residents fled the Somali capital on Saturday, following a day of fierce fighting that left at least 31 people dead.
Somali pirates have hijacked a bulk carrier in the Indian Ocean, their first successful attack in almost a week, a maritime watchdog said on Saturday.
Ethiopian forces opened fire on two civilian buses near the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Friday, killing at least 30 passengers, witnesses said.
Security forces on Monday killed at least five people in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, as they cracked down on riots sparked by rising food prices and record inflation, witnesses said. At least 20 000 people were out on the streets to demonstrate as anger grew at printers of fake money and unscrupulous traders.