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  • Al Shabaab kills three Somali soldiers in latest Ramadan attack

    news Source: Reuters - Tue, 1 Jul 2014 12:04 GMT, 01 Jul 2014 (10 years ago )
    MOGADISHU, July 1 (Reuters) - Al Shabaab militants shot dead three Somali soldiers in the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, their fourth attack since the start of the Ramadan fasting month that the Islamists have threatened to target. Sheikh Abdiasis abu Musab, al Shabaab's spokesman for military aff...
  • Defeating al-Shabab and dismembering Somalia

    news Al Jazeera, 01 Jul 2014 (10 years ago )
    Two years ago, the African Union Military Force (AMISOM) liberated the Somali capital, Mogadishu, from al-Shabab. More recently AMISOM and the Somali Army declared victories over al-Shabab by capturing major towns. The international community which supports AMISOM has touted these advances, yet the ...
  • EXCLUSIVE-U.S. discloses secret Somalia military

    news Reuters - Wed, 2 Jul 2014 19:40 GMT: By Phil Stewart, 02 Jul 2014 (10 years ago )
    WASHINGTON, July 2(Reuters) - U.S. military advisors have secretly operated in Somalia since around 2007 and Washington plans to deepen its security assistance to help the country fend off threats by Islamist militant group al Shabaab, U.S. officials said. The comments are the first detailed publ...
  • U.N. sees warning signs of return to famine in Somalia

    news Thomson Reuters Foundation: Author: Katy Migiro, 03 Jul 2014 (10 years ago )
    NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hunger is set to worsen in Somalia due to rising food prices, patchy rains and a lack of access to people in need, undermining efforts to rebuild the conflict-scarred country, senior U.N. officials said late on Wednesday. The last two rainy seasons, which pe...
  • Somali troops retake presidential palace

    news Al Jazeera and agencies, 08 Jul 2014 (10 years ago )
    Somali troops have retaken the presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu after al-Shabab fighters forced their way in and exchanged heavy gunfire with soldiers and guards. Al Jazeera's correspondent said loud explosions and gunfire could be heard as troops tried to repel the intruders on Tuesd...
  • Kenya back in court over Somali refugee roundup

    news Thomson Reuters Foundation, 16 Jul 2014 (10 years ago )
    Suspected Somali illegal migrants and refugees arrive at a holding center after being arrested in a police swoop in Kenya's capital Nairobi, April 7, 2014. Kenya last month ordered all Somali refugees living in urban areas to return to their camps in a bid to end attacks by Islamist militants carrie...
  • EXCLUSIVE-UN monitors allege 'conspiracy' to divert Somali assets

    news Thomson Reuters Foundation: Reuters, 16 Jul 2014 (10 years ago )
    By Louis Charbonneau and Drazen Jorgic VIENNA/NAIROBI, July 16 (Reuters) - A United Nations panel that monitors compliance with U.N. sanctions on Somalia has accused the country's president, a former minister, and a U.S. law firm of conspiring to divert Somali assets recovered abroad, according t...
  • Counterterrorism laws intensify Somali food crisis, experts say

    news Thomson Reuters Foundation, 16 Jul 2014 (10 years ago )
    LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Counterterrorism laws restricting the flow of cash to Somalia are severely harming efforts to prevent a famine similar to the 2011 catastrophe which killed 260,000 people, experts have said. Somalis living abroad have in the past sent home around $1.3 billion...
  • African migrants suffocate on voyage to Italy

    news Aljazeera: AFP, 19 Jul 2014 (10 years ago )
    talian rescuers have found 18 bodies on a boat carrying hundreds of asylum-seekers and another died while being evacuated, the ANSA news agency reports. All were apparently killed by toxic fumes from the boat's engine. The boat, with 600 people on board, was intercepted on Saturday south of th...
  • Gunmen kill at least 4 in Kenyan port city, scatter leaflets

    news Thomson reuters: Reuters, by Joseph Akwiri, 20 Jul 2014 (10 years ago )
    MOMBASA, Kenya, July 21 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed at least four people and injured several others in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa on Sunday, police said. Witnesses said gunmen went on a shooting rampage on the edge of Kenya's second-largest city and scattered leaflets saying the attack was ret...