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Ethiopian, Somali troops corner militants
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Thousands of Somali and Ethiopian troops closed in Saturday on the last remaining stronghold of a militant Islamic movement in so...
Read More »Not a shot was fired yet the Somali jihad was suddenly over...
Their fortress fell without a shot. After just nine days of clashes in Somalia's hinterland, the Islamists who had vowed to fight to the death abandon...
Read More »Local Somalis want peace for homeland
re than a thousand Somalis gathered in Minneapolis on Saturday to call for Ethiopian troops to withdraw immediately from Somalia....
Read More »Somali troops close on militants
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Thousands of Somali and Ethiopian troops were closing in Saturday on the last remaining stronghold of a militant Islamic mo...
Read More »Aid plane crashes in Kenya
Nairobi - A Kenyan plane carrying aid and fuel to neighbouring Somalia crashed and burst into flames on Saturday, but officials said all three crew su...
Read More »Somalia's president ready to visit recaptured capital Mogadishu
AFGOYE, Somalia (AFP) - Somalia's President Abdullah Yusuf Ahmed has travelled to Afgoye near the capital to prepare his entrance into Mogadishu itsel...
Read More »Displaced children being forced to fight
CHILDREN as young as 12 are being recruited to fight in the conflict between Somali Government forces and rival Islamists, the United Nations refugee ...
Read More »Somali Troops, Allies Prep for Showdown
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Thousands of Somali and Ethiopian troops set off Saturday for a showdown with Islamic forces who have regrouped at a southern se...
Read More »Virginia's Somalis fear for families left behind
The fighting in Somalia has caused Marwa Abdulle and her family deep pain....
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