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Germany "monitoring The Fighting In Somalia"
Germany voiced concern Friday at the fighting in Somalia, with Foreign Office spokesman Martin Jaeger saying a senior German diplomat would travel to ...
Read More »Somalia faces months of martial law
SOMALI Prime Minister Ali Mohamad Gedi said today the country's parliament would declare martial law this weekend for a period of three months....
Read More »After 15 years, Somalis strive to find a home
Buried in a strip mall with a giant grocery store and shops hawking everything from Chinese fast food to dollar-store baubles, the Dixon Community Cen...
Read More »Return of warlords as Somali capital is captured
Ethiopian tanks rolled into the outskirts of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, yesterday after Somalia's Islamist movement abandoned its bases in the cit...
Read More »Ethiopians are divided over war in Somalia
The headline in an Ethiopian newspaper drew familiar, if unflattering, comparisons to another nation's faster-than-expected victory in a war abroad....
Read More »MSF calls on Somali forces to leave medical team
GENEVA - The charity Medecins Sans Frontieres protested Thursday against Somali government troops forcing their way into one of their clinics and thre...
Read More »Boats with Somali refugees capsize - 17 killed
ZURICH (Reuters) - At least 17 people were killed and 140 missing after two boats packed with people fleeing Somalia capsized off the coast of Yemen, ...
Read More »US calls for resumption of negotiations in Somalia
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States called for a resumption of power-sharing negotiations between Somalia's rival factions after government forces ba...
Read More »Islamic courts abandon Mogadishu
Ali Mohamed Gedi, the Somali transitional government prime minister, says troops have entered Mogadishu after the Council of Islamic Courts abandoned ...
Read More »Somali govt troops march into Mogadishu
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Triumphant Somali government forces and their Ethiopian allies marched into Mogadishu on Thursday after Islamist rivals abandone...
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