This election is a crucial turning point that could ‘seal the deal’ or see Somalia slide back into chaos.
A car bomb has gone off in Somalia’s volatile capital Mogadishu, killing a former trade minister and wounding six people nearby.
Despite the fall of their key stronghold of Afgoye, al-Qaeda-linked Somali militants vowed to intensify the war against government and AU troops.
It’s been a bad week for Somalia. It would also be accurate to say it’s been a bad few decades..
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/ 4 February 2009
Humanitarian crisis on an unimaginable scale looms in lawless state. Simon Tisdall reports.
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/ 27 January 2009
Somalia’s insurgent group al Shabaab introduced sharia law in Baidoa on Tuesday, a day after taking the town that had been a government stronghold.
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/ 27 January 2009
Somali lawmakers on Tuesday extended by five days the time period needed to elect a new president.
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/ 1 December 2008
Parties to the peace talks aimed at ending the conflict in Somalia have reached a power-sharing deal in Djibouti that doubles the size of Parliament.
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/ 21 November 2008
Leaders’ split could lead to the collapse of the transitional federal government.