Mustafa Haji Abdinur
Award-winning Somali journalist, Activist for Peace, Freedom of Press and Human rights advocate. Mustafa Haji Abdinur has over 1272 followers on Twitter.
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/ 19 August 2007

Somali countryside plunged into violence

Rival sub-clans fought over access to wells in central Somalia on Saturday, killing at least 20 people and wounding several others, elders said, as the countryside sank into a vortex of violence. Also on Saturday, two people were killed and four others wounded in the capital, Mogadishu, in a fresh spate of insurgent attacks.

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/ 21 March 2007

Mayhem in Mogadishu

Heavy fighting erupted on Wednesday in the Somali capital, killing at least 14 people in an escalation of violence that also saw angry residents attacking the bodies of dead soldiers. Residents burned the bodies of two soldiers and dragged another through the streets, recalling the similar fate of United States troops in a failed peace operation in the early 1990s.

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/ 19 January 2007

Somalis fear slide back into violence

Somalis expressed growing fears of a relapse into violence on Friday as the African Union met to discuss the troubled deployment of a stabilisation force. Visiting United Nations envoy Francois Fall told interim President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed on Thursday Somalia had a better chance of peace than at any other time since the era of infighting among warlords began 16 years ago.

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/ 9 January 2007

US strikes in Somalia ‘the right thing’

The United States launched air strikes on suspected al-Qaeda hideouts in Somalia in its first overt military intervention in the lawless nation since the early 1990s, officials said on Tuesday. The Interim Somali president defended Washington’s targeting of the camps where suspects in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in East Africa are believed to be.