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Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed said Monday that six pirates in French custody for allegedly holding the crew of a yacht hostage are likely from his home region in the Horn of Africa country.Ahmed, who was in Paris for meetings with President...
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Two Italians kidnapped in Somalia have been released, Italy’s foreign minister said Tuesday, months after men armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled...
made popular Aug 5 2008
AP, Mogadishu
Witnesses say Ethiopian troops backing Somalia’s shaky government have shelled residential areas in northeastern Mogadishu and killed at least 10 people.
made popular Aug 5 2008
AP, Mogadishu
A bomb hidden under a pile of garbage killed at least 20 people, half of them women who were sweeping the street in Somalia’s capital, witnesses and doctors said...
made popular Aug 3 2008
AP, Mogadishu
An explosion killed at least 20 people in the Somali capital Sunday, according to witnesses and a hospital official, as the government struggles with a political crisis...
made popular Aug 3 2008
AP, Mogadishu
A bomb blast killed at least 15 people in the Somali capital on Sunday, witnesses said, as political divisions on both sides of the conflict deepened.
made popular Aug 3 2008
AP, Mogadishu
Witnesses say an explosion has killed at least 15 people in the Somali capital.
made popular Aug 3 2008
AP, Mogadishu
A roadside bomb killed a Ugandan peacekeeper in the Somali capital Friday, witnesses and an official said, breaking a brief period of relative quiet following a peace...
made popular Aug 1 2008
The Governor of the Somali Hiiran region accuses the Ethiopian troops of genocide as he along with other people tries to escape the region.
It was the first time...
made popular Jul 30 2008
AP, Nairobi
Somalia’s new opposition leader said Friday his supporters could take up arms against U.N. peacekeepers if they deploy the lawless country and side with the...
made popular Jul 25 2008
During the twilight of his presidency, Ronald Reagan was known to be forgetful. While traveling in Latin America, he was mixing up countries. “I am very happy to be...
made popular Jul 24 2008
AP, Nairobi
A fundamentalist Muslim suspected by the U.S. of collaborating with al-Qaida has taken over as head of Somalia’s exiled opposition movement, pushing out a...
made popular Jul 23 2008
AP, Manila
Pirates have seized a cargo ship with 20 Filipino sailors on board off the coast of Somalia, a Philippine government official said Wednesday.The pirates climbed aboard...
made popular Jul 23 2008
AP, Nairobi
A fundamentalist Muslim whom the U.S. suspects of collaborating with al-Qaida says he has taken over leadership of Somalia’s opposition.Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys...
made popular Jul 23 2008
AP, Manila
A Philippine government official says a ship with 20 Filipino sailors has been hijacked off the coast of Somalia.Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Estaban Conejos says the...
made popular Jul 23 2008
AP, Mogadishu
Dahir Abdi Salah used to feed his children three meals a day _ pancakes for breakfast, spaghetti for lunch and beans for dinner.Now, due to a global food crisis that is...
made popular Jul 22 2008
AP, Mogadishu
Hours of fighting in the Somali capital killed at least seven civilians, including three young siblings who were leaving a religious school when a mortar landed nearby,...
made popular Jul 21 2008
AP, Mogadishu
A World Food Program contractor was gunned down in the fifth fatal attack this year on one of the agency’s workers, the WFP said Tuesday as thousands of Somalis...
made popular Jul 15 2008
AP, Mogadishu
Gunmen shot and killed two Somali aid workers and wounded a third within 24 hours, witnesses said Saturday, in the latest sign of spiraling violence against workers...
made popular Jul 12 2008
AP, Kuala Lumpur
Pirate attacks worldwide surged 19 percent in the past three months compared to the January-March period, largely due to increased incidents in Somalia and Nigeria, an...
made popular Jul 11 2008
AP, Kuala Lumpur
Pirate attacks worldwide surged 19 percent in the past three months compared to the January-March period, largely due to increased incidents in Somalia and Nigeria, an...
made popular Jul 11 2008
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