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The Somali government is trying to create a Baghdad-style safe ”Green Zone” in Mogadishu to protect senior officials and foreign visitors from insurgent attacks, Prime Minister…
Gunmen shot dead a popular Somali radio journalist and talk-show host outside his independent FM station on Saturday in an apparent assassination, colleagues said. Mahad Ahmed…
Gunmen plundered computers and bags of sugar from a Coca-Cola plant in Mogadishu on Friday during a lull in fighting between allied Somali-Ethiopian troops and insurgents, a…
Ethiopian tanks supporting the Somali government pounded insurgent positions in Mogadishu on Thursday and Somalia’s prime minister declared significant gains after a nine-day…
Shelling and artillery fire shook northern Mogadishu on Tuesday, the seventh day of fighting between allied Somali-Ethiopian forces and Islamist gunmen that has killed hundreds…
Rotting corpses lay in the open and explosions shook Mogadishu on Sunday for a fifth day of battles between insurgents and allied Somali-Ethiopian troops that have killed at…
Battles raged across Mogadishu on Saturday, killing at least 73 people and swelling a vast exodus from an escalating war between militant Islamists and allied Somali-Ethiopian…
Sporadic shelling and gunfire shook Mogadishu on Friday, but Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf downplayed this week’s violence, which residents say has killed at least 30 people…
Renewed violence between Ethiopian troops and Somali insurgents killed at least five people in Mogadishu, residents said on Wednesday. Heavy shelling rocked the southern area of…
One explosion and some gunfire sounded across Mogadishu on Monday morning, but the Somali capital was generally quieter after four days of non-stop battles pitting Ethiopian and…
Mortar rounds crashed into central Mogadishu on Sunday in a fourth day of battles between Islamist insurgents and allied Ethiopian and Somali government troops that have killed…
Artillery fire rocked Mogadishu for a third day on Saturday as Ethiopian and Somali troops backed by helicopter gunships resumed a major offensive against Islamist insurgents and…
Rebels shot down a helicopter gunship in Mogadishu on Friday in a second day of battles as Ethiopian and Somali forces sought to crush an insurgency by Islamists and clan…
Shells rained down on Mogadishu in a second day of battles on Friday as Ethiopian and Somali troops sought to flush out militant Islamist insurgents in the worst fighting since a…
Helicopters pounded rebel positions and tanks rumbled through Mogadishu on Thursday as allied Ethiopian and Somali government troops launched a major push against insurgents,…
Clashes broke out in Mogadishu for the third day on Friday between gunmen and Ethiopian troops helping the government fight an insurgency many fear could plunge Somalia back into…
Ethiopian tanks guarding a Somali government base in Mogadishu opened fire on unidentified attackers on Thursday as clashes broke out in the capital for a second straight day.…
Somalia’s prime minister appealed on Wednesday for ,6-million to fund a national reconciliation meeting in Mogadishu and said the next two weeks would prove if it could secure…
At least eight people were killed during a mortar bomb attack on Somalia’s presidential palace, hospital officials said on Wednesday. The strike on Tuesday came hours after…
Insurgents trying to attack African Union peacekeepers hit a restaurant in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, with a rocket-propelled grenade, killing at least nine people in the…
