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/ 17 October 2011
Kenyan troops have pushed deep into Somalia to hunt al-Qaeda-linked fighters, in an unprecedented move that raises fears of a regional escalation.
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/ 5 September 2011
Somali leaders launched a fresh bid on Sunday to chart a new future for the war-ravaged country and wind up a seven-year transition period.
Somali pro-government forces on Tuesday closed in on bastions of the insurgent al-Shabaab group, mounting their largest coordinated effort in years.
Fighting raged in Mogadishu on Tuesday after extremists launched an offensive that the government said was a declaration of war on the Somali people.
Somalia’s embattled government on Wednesday hailed the African Union’s decision to beef up its force in Mogadishu.
Somali insurgents displayed the bodies of what they said were AU troops on Friday following a day of fierce clashes with government troops.
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/ 12 February 2010
Somalia’s al-Shabaab-led rebels vowed all-out war as the conflict-riven country braced for a huge government offensive to crush insurgents.
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/ 11 February 2010
Somalia’s al-Shabaab rebels have sent in hundreds of reinforcements as Mogadishu braces for a government offensive against the insurgents.
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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.
Somalia’s embattled President, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, scrambled to salvage his six-month-old administration on Monday.
Somalia’s government was reeling on Friday from an insurgent suicide bombing that killed its security minister and 19 other people.
Terrified residents fled the Somali capital on Saturday, following a day of fierce fighting that left at least 31 people 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.
Somali officials on Monday urged tough action against pirates holding a French yacht after an elite French army unit was placed on standby to intervene if negotiations failed. The local governor in Somalia’s breakaway northern region of Puntland, Musa Ghelle Yusuf, said he would be "happy … to see the pirates killed".
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/ 23 October 2007
Somali authorities on Tuesday released the local head of the World Food Programme, who was seized nearly a week ago when government forces stormed a United Nations compound in Mogadishu. "He is safely back in the office. He was brought by some government officers as well as local UN staffers," a UN official said in Mogadishu.
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/ 19 January 2007
Somalis expressed growing fears of a relapse into violence on Friday as the African Union met to discuss the troubled deployment of a stabilisation force. Visiting United Nations envoy Francois Fall told interim President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed on Thursday Somalia had a better chance of peace than at any other time since the era of infighting among warlords began 16 years ago.
Somalia’s army, backed by Ethiopian forces, on Sunday extended their grip over remote regions in the far south of the country where Islamist fighters had been holed up for days, a commander said. Commander Abdulrasaq Afgebub said the joint forces were in control of Ras Kamboni, a scrubland area on the border with Kenya.