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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
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Somalia: Twenty six illegal immigrants from Somalia were arrested Tuesday when Police in Mombasa smashed a human smuggling syndicate. |
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
Somalia: At least a hundred Ethiopian soldiers have been killed in two separate attacks on their vehicles in war-torn Somalia.
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
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Nairobi(Kenya): A truck driver working for the World Food Programme was shot and killed in central Somalia after militiamen stopped a convoy of lorries ferrying relief food, the UN agency said on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
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Somalia: Heavy fighting between Ethiopian troops and Islamist insurgents in central Somalia left at least 23 people dead, witnesses and officials said Thursday. |
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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Somalia: A roadside explosion targeting a Somali police official in the capital Mogadishu hit a police car Wednesday, killing two officers inside and two civilian bystanders, witnesses said. |
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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Somalia: Islamist militants on Wednesday urged Mogadishu traders to accept Somali shillings over dollars to try to reduce inflation in the country, warning they would punish defaulters. |
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
Kenya: Amnesty International has called for the role of the United States in Somalia to be investigated, following publication of a report accusing its allies of committing war crimes.
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
Kenya: Amnesty International said that Ethiopian troops who support Somalia's government are killing civilians, slitting people's throats and gang-raping women. The human rights group called on the international community to halt the bloodshed.
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
Somalia: National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is outraged by the vicious attack by unidentified gunmen against female television journalist Bisharo Mohammed Waeys, which took place in Bossasso, Bari region, on 4 May 2008.
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
Somalia: Islamist fighters said Tuesday that an overnight US airstrike blasted a remote area of central Somalia hours after armed civilians met there, but the US military denied the claim.
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
Somalia: Hundreds of youths hurled stones and blocked roads with blazing tires Tuesday in a second day of protests over soaring food prices that has frustrated residents already living in one of the world's most dangerous war zones.
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
Somalia: Security forces killed one person and wounded four others on Monday in the Somali capital Mogadishu when they opened fire to halt riots sparked by rising food prices and record inflation, witnesses said.
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
Somalia: At least 16 Ethiopin troops have been died following the heavy clashes between government-backed Ethiopian forces and Somali fighters in the last 24 hours, news reports say.
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
Somalia: The finance minister in the Somali self-governing state of Puntland held a press conference Sunday in the port city of Bossaso, 1500km north of the capital Mogadishu.
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