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Somalia : Shebab insurgents claim Somali car bombing
on 2012/2/18 10:13:24
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The Islamist Shebab rebel movement claimed responsibility for a car bomb which exploded at a major police building in Somalia's war-torn capital Mogadishu Friday, wounding a police officer.
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Somalia : Somali PM wants 'Marshall Plan' at London meet
on 2012/2/14 12:23:19
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Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali said Monday he hoped an upcoming conference in London on the war-torn country would produce a "Marshall Plan" to end two decades of chaos.
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Somalia : AU forces to attack Shebab stronghold
on 2012/2/13 11:21:16
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African Union forces in Somalia are planning to attack a stronghold town of Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels to the west of the war-torn country's capital, a commander said Sunday.
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Somalia : Mogadishu car bomber kills at least nine: police
on 2012/2/9 10:55:01
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Reuters
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed at least nine people on Wednesday near a hotel where lawmakers often gather in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police said.
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Somalia : Higher speeds, hired guns drive Somali piracy cost
on 2012/2/9 10:54:15
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Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Somali piracy in the Indian Ocean costs the global economy some $7 billion a year, a study said on Wednesday, with ships forced to travel faster over longer routes and increasingly hire armed security guards.
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Somalia : EU envoy talks tough to Somalian leaders
on 2012/2/9 10:53:13
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's leaders must press ahead with political reforms or risk losing aid from the European Union, its biggest donor, the EU envoy to the Horn of Africa said on Wednesday.
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Somalia : Somalia hails Iran's Humanitarian aid
on 2012/2/6 11:42:43
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Press TV
President of the Somali Red Crescent Society has expressed gratitude to Iran for Tehran’s significant contribution of humanitarian aid to the famine-stricken African nation, Press TV reports.

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Somalia : Surveillance drone crashes in Somali capital
on 2012/2/4 13:07:14
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AP
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Witnesses say a surveillance drone has crashed into a refugee camp in the Somali capital.
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Somalia : UN declares Somali famine over but warns of risks
on 2012/2/4 12:47:35
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations said Friday that Somalia's famine is over, but the world body's Food and Agricultural Organization warned that continued assistance is needed to stop the region from slipping back.
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Somalia : 'Opportunity' to end terror, piracy in Somalia: Hague
on 2012/2/4 12:45:11
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Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague said Friday there was an "opportunity" to end the crisis in Somalia and tackle terrorism and piracy there, after a landmark visit to the war-torn nation.
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Somalia : Somalia journalist shot dead in capital
on 2012/1/29 10:43:49
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AP
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A producer at a Somali radio station says gunmen shot dead the station's director in the chaotic capital, Mogadishu.
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Somalia : Director of Somali radio station shot dead: witnesses
on 2012/1/29 10:42:52
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AFP
Gunmen on Saturday shot dead the director of a major Somali radio station in front of his home in Mogadishu, colleagues and witnesses said.
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Somalia : Somali pirates 'behind kidnap of foreign hostage'
on 2012/1/23 10:11:56
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AFP
Pirates are behind the kidnapping of a foreign hostage in central Somalia, a local official said Sunday, with witnesses reporting he had been whisked off to an inaccessible jungle base.
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Somalia : Officials: US drone strike killed Somali insurgent
on 2012/1/23 10:00:16
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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A U.S. drone strike killed an al-Qaida official of Lebanese origin fighting alongside insurgents in Somalia, officials said.
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Somalia : Loud blasts heard near Somali rebel bases
on 2012/1/22 12:26:07
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Reuters
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Two loud explosions rocked a rebel stronghold about 13 km from the Somali capital on Saturday and a third blast was heard close by, residents said, but it was unclear who Was behind them.
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Somalia : Gunmen kidnap western foreigner in central Somalia
on 2012/1/22 12:24:48
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped a western foreigner in central Somalia's Galmudug region on Saturday, local government and military officials said, adding that they believed the assailants had been the man's own guards and might be linked to a pirate gang.
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Somalia : Slow steps to recovery for Somalia's violent capital
on 2012/1/21 10:17:54
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AFP
Surveying Somalia's war-torn and dangerous capital from his office, the commander of the African Union force here Fred Mugisha is optimistic: "98 percent of Mogadishu is free."
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Somalia : African Union troops reach outskirts of Mogadishu
on 2012/1/21 10:10:00
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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Heavy fighting broke out in Somalia's capital on Friday with African Union peacekeepers encountering resistance as they pushed to Mogadishu's outskirts for the first time, the latest move in an offensive against Islamist insurgents.
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Somalia : Bomb blast kills six in Somali capital
on 2012/1/20 18:14:32
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Reuters
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A bomb blast on Thursday killed two Somali policemen and four refugees close to a camp for displaced people in the capital, Mogadishu, the African Union's peacekeeping force in Somalia said.
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Somalia : Oil exploration begins in Somalia
on 2012/1/19 10:05:00
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press tv
A Canadian oil company says it has begun drilling exploratory oil wells at two locations in Somalia's impoverished region of Puntland.

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