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/ 15 January 2007
Somali gunmen fired at a convoy of Ethiopian troops in Mogadishu in the latest attack on forces backing the government, threatening efforts to restore effective rule in the chaotic Horn of Africa nation. Saying Mogadishu was ”in chaos”, President Abdullahi Yusuf appointed officials on Monday to take charge of the city.
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/ 15 January 2007
Somali gunmen fired at a convoy of Ethiopian troops in Mogadishu, the latest in a series of attacks against forces backing the government, a Somali government source said on Monday. The attack happened late on Sunday in the northern Arafat area, where hours before Ethiopian soldiers helped government troops seize guns and explosives.
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/ 11 January 2007
The United States, facing growing international criticism over an air strike targeting al-Qaeda suspects in Somalia, denied reports on Wednesday it had carried out further strikes. A Somali government source and a local lawmaker said US planes struck several sites on Wednesday after an assault on Monday against a village where the suspects were thought to be hiding.
Somali gunmen attacked an oil-tanker truck near Mogadishu on Thursday, wounding three people and raising fears of a return to the clan violence that had largely stopped during six months of Islamist rule. The Somalia Islamic Courts Council, which had imposed strict sharia law across much of the south, abandoned the capital last week.
Ethiopia said on Tuesday its troops will stay for another few weeks in Somalia to help the government pacify the Horn of Africa nation, but the Islamists they ousted in a brief war vowed to ”rise from the ashes”. The Islamists, who fled their last stronghold on Monday after a two-week conflict, said they refused a government offer to surrender.
Ethiopian troops will stay in Somalia for another few weeks to help the victorious government pacify the Horn of Africa nation after a two-week war to oust militant Islamists, Addis Ababa said on Tuesday. Tightening the net on defeated Somali Islamic Courts Council fighters fleeing south, neighbouring Kenya said it had sealed its long and porous north-eastern border.
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/ 12 December 2006
Somalia’s Islamist movement threatened on Tuesday to wage war on more than 30Â 000 Ethiopian troops it said were in the Horn of Africa nation unless they leave within seven days. ”If the Ethiopians don’t leave our land within seven days, we will attack them and force them to leave our country,” the Islamist defence chief told reporters in Mogadishu.
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/ 22 September 2006
An Islamist militia firing squad shot a young man convicted of murder on Friday in the first public execution the movement has carried out in Mogadishu since taking the Somali capital in June. Hundreds of Somalis watched as the Islamists shaved Abduqadir Diriye — who killed his victim during the theft of a mobile phone — and made him say prayers, a witness saw.