Mustafa Haji Abdinur
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/ 3 January 2007

Islamist leaders elude Somali troops

Somali government troops, backed by Ethiopia, said on Wednesday that they had so far failed to capture any Islamist leaders who have been running for two days since abandoning their last remaining stronghold. In Kenya, authorities deported hundreds of Somali refugees who had crossed into the country as Nairobi heightened its frontier security.

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/ 8 December 2006

Heavy fighting erupts in Somalia

Fierce fighting erupted on Friday between forces loyal to Somalia’s weak Ethiopian-backed government and powerful Islamists south of the government’s seat of Baidoa, the two sides said. Senior government and Islamist officials said the clashes began at midday around Dinsoor, 110km south of Baidoa, with each putting the blame on the other party.

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/ 4 December 2006

Somali govt bans traffic from Mogadishu

Somalia’s weak government on Monday banned vehicles travelling from Islamist-held Mogadishu to its seat in the provincial town of Baidoa, after two suicide car bombings there blamed on the Islamists. Citing fears of more such attacks as the two sides and government ally Ethiopia gird for all-out war, government officials said the ban was necessary to protect the town.

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/ 26 October 2006

Fears of all-out war fuelled in Somalia

A powerful Islamist movement has seized control of a strategic trading post in southern Somalia, expanding its territorial control and fuelling fears of an all-out war with government troops, residents and militia commanders said on Thursday. The Islamists said the township, which straddles three regions, had fallen without bloodshed, according witnesses.