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Somalia: Five Killed in Clash Between Govt Forces and Militants in Bakool Region
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 3 days ago
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The fighting erupted Thursday night around 11:30pm local time in El Barde town of Bakool region, near the Somali-Ethiopian border, witnesses said. All the dead and wounded were fighters, according to local reports. Al Shabaab militants attacked
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Somalia still has serious issues, U.N. told
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 25 days ago
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Somalia isn't yet at a place where it sees a political and national security future that's free of problems, the Somali ambassador to the United Nations said. British Foreign Secretary William Hague visited Mogadishu this week to open the British
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US clears way to arm, train Somali forces
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 1 month ago
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President Barack Obama is clearing the way for the U.S. to arm or train Somali forces fighting militants linked to al-Qaida. Obama said in a memo Monday that he's determined that providing defense equipment and services to Somalia will strengthen U.S.
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Somalia: Reports of Fighting Between Government Troops At Deynile in Banadir Region.
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 1 month ago
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Damages have been reported to have resulted from the fighting between the members of the federal government troops. Two soldiers have been confirmed dead and four others are reported to have sustained serious injuries. The fighting occurred when the
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Somali Islamists retake key town
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 2 months ago
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Somalia's Islamist fighters retook the key southern town of Hudur on Sunday, residents said, in the first territorial fight-back by the al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab for several months. Heavily armed Shabaab fighters swept into the regional capital of the
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UN eases Somalia weapons embargo
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 3 months ago
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The UN Security Council has unanimously voted to partially lift its ban on selling arms on Somalia for a year. The embargo is the world's oldest, having been imposed in 1992, and will be partially eased for a year in order to help the country's new
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Somalia: Somalia Calls on U.S. to Help Fight Al Shabaab
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 3 months ago
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Mogadishu The minister of defense for federal government of somalia hon:Abdihakim Hajji Mohamud fiki who yesterday spoke at a grand opening of Barracks for military that was funded with united state of American government together with Federal
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Suicide attack kills two Somali...
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 4 months ago
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An Islamist militant yesterday blew himself up near the gates of the Somali Presidential Palace, killing at least two soldiers, witnesses and rebels said. Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab rebels said the early morning suicide attack was the start of a new
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Ethiopia sentences Kenyan, nine others for plotting terror attacks
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | 4 months ago
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A court in Ethiopia on Tuesday passed jail terms against nine individuals including one Kenyan national who are alleged to be members of a terrorist cell affiliated with Al Qaeda's network operating in East Africa. The men were convicted of plans to
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Somalia: Searching for a Solution to Al-Shabaab
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 5 months ago
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In Somalia, the radical Islamist militia, Al-Shabab, that has terrorized much of the country over the past five years, appears to be on the run. They have been forced out of the capital, Mogadishu, and all of the major towns that were once under
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