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/ 7 February 2009
Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed arrived on Saturday in Mogadishu to hold consultations aimed at forming a broad coalition government.
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/ 4 February 2009
A Somali journalist says masked gunmen have killed the director of Somalia’s largest media company at a market in the country’s capital.
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/ 3 February 2009
The deputy mayor of Somali capital Mogadishu has accused AU peacekeepers of opening fire on commuter buses, killing more than 20 civilians.
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/ 24 January 2009
It is time for feuding Somalis to ditch the concept of winner takes all and seek compromise to try and end nearly 20 years of conflict.
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/ 22 January 2009
The UN will end food distribution in Somalia unless armed groups there stop attacking UN staff, the World Food Programme said on Thursday.
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/ 17 January 2009
About 3 000 Somalis marched through the streets of the war-scarred capital, Mogadishu, on Friday, celebrating the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops.
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/ 15 January 2009
Ethiopian forces supporting Somalia’s government withdrew completely from Mogadishu on Thursday, witnesses and a senior official said.
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/ 14 January 2009
Few Somalis expressed hope on Wednesday after Ethiopian troops quit bases in Mogadishu and Islamist insurgents said they would launch attacks.
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/ 24 December 2008
Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf has decided to resign and is expected to announce his departure on Saturday, his spokesperson said.
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/ 23 November 2008
Zam Zam Abdi fled after being threatened with death. If she continued working for her women’s rights organisation she would be killed.
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/ 16 November 2008
A radical Islamic group has seized another Somali port town, consolidating its control over a south-western region that borders the Somali capital.
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/ 14 November 2008
Islamist rebels moved on Friday into a town on the outskirts of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, sparking fears among residents of renewed fighting.
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/ 20 October 2008
A United Nations Children’s Fund aid worker was shot dead in southern Somalia on the weekend, a local UN official said on Monday.
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/ 13 October 2008
Islamist insurgents attacked AU peacekeepers in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Monday, triggering clashes that killed a civilian.
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/ 24 September 2008
Islamists attacked African peacekeepers in Mogadishu, sparking a battle that killed 11 civilians and sent many fleeing the city.
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/ 21 September 2008
Somali pirates are holding a record 12 ships following a week of relentless attacks that is threatening to disrupt regional trade.
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/ 19 September 2008
Mortar shells were fired on Mogadishu airport in Somalia on Friday.
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/ 15 September 2008
Somalia’s hardline Islamist militia, Al-Shebab, has issued an ultimatum urging all traffic in and out of Mogadishu airport to cease on Tuesday.
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/ 5 September 2008
A new report by a major US human rights group on the situation in Somalia criticises United States counter-terrorism policies.
Medical charity Médecins sans Frontières has closed one of its clinics in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, due to insecurity, it said on Wednesday.
Tswo freelance journalists, an Australian man and a Canadian woman, were abducted on Saturday by unidentified armed men near Mogadihu.
Ethiopian forces opened fire on two civilian buses near the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Friday, killing at least 30 passengers, witnesses said.
Ethiopian forces opened fire on two civilian buses near the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Friday, killing at least 30 passengers, witnesses said.
Somali refugees in Kenya are losing hope of ever returning to their home where rival groups are again battling for control.
An explosion killed at least 15 people in the Somali capital on Sunday, amid a political crisis that has threatened the government’s peace deal.
Ten of Somalia’s 15 government ministers announced their resignations on Saturday.
Gunmen killed an aid worker in the Somali capital on Friday, the latest such attack against humanitarian staff in the conflict-torn African nation.
Insurgents have battled troops allied to Somalia’s government in some of the worst fighting in the country in weeks, killing at least 20 people.
At least 26 people, mainly combatants, were killed on Tuesday in fighting between Ethiopian forces and Islamist insurgents in central Somalia.
Overnight violence in Somalia pushed the death toll on Friday to 38 in the days since a peace deal was signed in Djibouti last week.
Somali insurgents killed at least 10 people, including six police officers, in separate attacks hours after rejecting a United Nations-brokered peace deal for the Horn of Africa nation.
Artillery battles between allied Somali-Ethiopian troops and Islamist insurgents killed at least 12 people on Sunday around Mogadishu’s sprawling Bakara Market.