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A South African security trainer was killed by his bodyguard in Somalia’s semiautonomous region of Puntland, officials said.
US military forces flew into Somalia to free hostages and killed nine pirates in a night-time helicopter raid.
Somali officials say they are pleading with US authorities to persuade banks to reconsider a decision to block money transfers from Minnesota.
Three people were killed after suicide bombers attacked an African Union peacekeeping base in the Somali capital on Monday.
Five simultaneous suicide attacks targeted African Union bases in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, officials have said.
A man was shot dead on Sunday after he refused to disembark from a yacht in the Indian Ocean that was hijacked by Somali pirates last week.
Two explosions at a mosque in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday killed 39 worshippers, wounded scores more.
Violence in Mogadishu killed at least 24 people on Wednesday, and thousands of Somalis fled the capital fearing a government offensive.
A suicide bomber disguised as a veiled woman killed at least 19 people including three Somali government ministers on Thursday.
Somali pirates said on Wednesday they had hijacked a fishing vessel and another ship in the Indian Ocean believed to be carrying oil.
Somali pirates said on Tuesday they had seized a yacht with a British couple aboard and were taking the vessel to the Horn of Africa nation.
Somalia’s hard-line al-Shabaab insurgents said they will strike the capitals of Burundi and Uganda in revenge for rocket attacks by peacekeepers.
Somali government troops routed Islamist insurgents from a strategic central town after launching a pre-dawn assault on Monday, witnesses said.
Fighting erupted between Islamist rebels, government forces and AU peacekeepers in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least 22 people.
One of Somalia’s militant Islamist rebel groups was holding two French security men on Wednesday, police said.
A suicide car bomber targeted Somalia’s security minister in his hotel in the central town of Baladwayne on Thursday, witnesses said.
Ethiopia’s government on Tuesday denied reports from Somali residents that it had sent soldiers back into the neighbouring Horn of Africa country.
Thousands of residents fled bomb-blasted north Mogadishu on Tuesday where fighting has killed at least 113 civilians.
US special forces freed an American ship’s captain by killing three Somali pirates who held him hostage in a lifeboat, ending a five-day stand-off.
Pirates sailed a hijacked German freighter toward a lifeboat off Somalia early on Saturday to help comrades holding an American ship captain hostage.
