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/ 10 February 2010
Hundreds of Mogadishu residents were fleeing the war-ravaged city on Wednesday, ahead of a large offensive by the Somali government.
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/ 29 January 2010
VIPs on Friday feted the first year of Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed’s shaky rule as fighting rocked a theatre where they were gathered.
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/ 26 January 2010
Somalia’s hard-line insurgent group, al-Shabaab, on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a mortar attack on an AU peacekeepers’ base in Mogadishu.
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/ 4 December 2009
A suicide bomber disguised as a veiled woman killed at least 19 people including three Somali government ministers on Thursday.
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/ 3 December 2009
An explosion that tore through a hotel in Somalia’s lawless capital, Mogadishu, on Thursday killed three government ministers.
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/ 22 October 2009
Artillery battles between Islamist insurgents, Somali government forces and AU peacekeepers killed at least 30 people on Thursday.
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/ 18 September 2009
The African Union’s Somalia mission reeled on Friday from twin suicide attacks on its headquarters.
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/ 18 September 2009
Somalia’s al-Shabaab insurgents have six more stolen United Nations vehicles primed as suicide bombs, the government said on Friday.
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/ 17 September 2009
Two big explosions rocked an African Union peacekeeping base in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday, wounding several troops, witnesses said.
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/ 17 September 2009
Somali insurgents holding a French security consultant hostage issued demands in return for his release on Thursday.
One of two French security advisers kidnapped by insurgents in Somalia last month has escaped from his captors, Somali police said on Wednesday.
The number of people needing humanitarian aid in Somalia has leapt 17,5% in a year to 3,76-million, an authoritative study showed on Tuesday.
Fighting erupted between Islamist rebels, government forces and AU peacekeepers in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least 22 people.
Clashes in central Somalia and the capital have killed at least 46 people, officials and peace groups said on Thursday.
More than 20 000 people have fled fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu over the past two weeks, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday.
One of Somalia’s militant Islamist rebel groups was holding two French security men on Wednesday, police said.
The UN human rights chief said on Friday that Islamist insurgents in Somalia had executed civilians and set off bombs in residential areas.
In two months of fighting in beleaguered Mogadishu in Somalia, at least 204 000 people have been forced to flee their homes, the UN says.
Spiralling violence in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, is taking a heavy toll on civilians, aid agencies said on Friday.
Heavy fighting erupted on Tuesday in a previously quiet part of the Somali capital sending hundreds of residents fleeing, officials said.
Hardline Islamist insurgents in Somalia’s capital fired mortar bombs at the presidential palace and attacked AU peacekeepers on Saturday evening.
Terrified residents fled the Somali capital on Saturday, following a day of fierce fighting that left at least 31 people dead.
More than 43 000 civilians have fled fierce fighting between insurgents and government forces in Mogadishu over the last 12 days, the UN said.
Frightened Somalis are fleeing the capital as fighting rages between pro-government forces and Islamist militias.
Somalia’s president was holed up in his compound and residents fleeing Mogadishu on Thursday, as Islamist insurgents prepared to seize power.
Thousands of residents fled bomb-blasted north Mogadishu on Tuesday where fighting has killed at least 113 civilians.
A human rights activist says hundreds are fleeing Somalia’s capital after weekend fighting left at least 35 dead.
Somali pirates have hijacked a bulk carrier in the Indian Ocean, their first successful attack in almost a week, a maritime watchdog said on Saturday.
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/ 26 February 2009
The UN on Wednesday condemned the latest violence in Somalia, including a weekend suicide attack that killed 11 African peacekeepers.
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/ 25 February 2009
Islamist rebels battled AU peacekeepers and Somali police for a second day on Wednesday, taking the death toll from the fighting to at least 81.
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/ 24 February 2009
Fierce clashes killed at least 14 people on Tuesday in Mogadishu, marring the newly elected president’s first days in the Somali capital.
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/ 23 February 2009
Somalia’s hard-line Islamist insurgent movement al-Shabaab pledged on Monday to carry out further attacks against African peacekeepers.