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US flexes muscle in stand-off with Somali pirates
The US Navy prepared on Friday to increase pressure on Somali pirates to give up an American ship captain held hostage in a lifeboat.
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Somalia’s al-Shabaab vows more attacks on AU troops
Somalia’s hard-line Islamist insurgent movement al-Shabaab pledged on Monday to carry out further attacks against African peacekeepers.
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Fear and threats as Ethiopian troops quit Mogadishu
Few Somalis expressed hope on Wednesday after Ethiopian troops quit bases in Mogadishu and Islamist insurgents said they would launch attacks.
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Somali president decides to resign
Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf has decided to resign and is expected to announce his departure on Saturday, his spokesperson said.
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Major shippers skirt Gulf of Aden to avoid pirates
Piracy off Somalia is forcing shipping companies to avoid the Suez Canal and send cargoes on a longer journey around Southern Africa.
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Somali Islamists move closer to Mogadishu
Islamist rebels moved on Friday into a town on the outskirts of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, sparking fears among residents of renewed fighting.
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Somali Islamists target AU soldiers, 11 civilians die
Islamists attacked African peacekeepers in Mogadishu, sparking a battle that killed 11 civilians and sent many fleeing the city.
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Somali insurgents fire mortars at president’s plane
Insurgents fired mortars at a plane that was due to take Somalia’s president to Djibouti, but he was unharmed and travelled to a meeting with a United Nations security council delegation, officials said on Sunday. President Abdullahi Yusuf was due to meet the delegation in Djibouti, where his interim government and opposition exiles are participating in peace talks.
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More than a dozen killed in Somali clashes
Clashes between Ethiopian troops and Islamist insurgents have killed more than a dozen people in southern and central regions of Somalia, residents said. Islamist fighters, opposed to Ethiopian soldiers in Somalia to support its interim government, ambushed a convoy of Ethiopian forces in the central Hiraan region on Wednesday.
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Somalia death toll nears 100 with fresh fighting
Militias allied to the Somali government recaptured a southern port from Islamists on Tuesday, taking the death toll from an upsurge of fighting in recent days to nearly 100, witnesses said. The militias recaptured Guda town, which had been taken by the Islamists’ militant al-Shabaab wing on Monday.
