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American Jihadi Reveals Details On 'Privileged' Childhood

AP | Posted 05.18.2012

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KAMPALA, Uganda -- An American who serves as a commander with a Somali militant group says in a new autobiography that he had a "privileged" childhood...

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Lil' Mogadishu: Americans Train African Troops To Fight Al-Shabab

AP | DAVID RISING | Posted 05.15.2012

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KAKOLA, Uganda -- American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers t...

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Al Qaeda Leader Urges Somali Militants To Fight

AP | Posted 05.11.2012

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KAMPALA, Uganda -- Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has released a new video in which he encourages Somali militants to fight on despite the challeng...

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In New Video, U.S. Jihadi Claims Comrades Want To Kill Him

AP | Posted 05.17.2012

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NAIROBI, Kenya — American-born jihadi Omar Hammami says in a new video that he fears members of his own Somali militia group may kill him over d...

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Somalia: Warring Parties Put Children At Grave Risk

Human Rights Watch | Posted 04.21.2012

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Since Somalia's conflict intensified in 2010 and 2011, al-Shabaab has increasingly forced children, some as young as 10, to join its dwindling ranks.

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Leader: Al Shabab Formally Joined Al Qaeda

AP | KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 04.10.2012

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NAIROBI, Kenya — The Somali militant group al-Shabab has formally joined al-Qaida, according to a video translation released Thursday of a messa...

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U.N. Downgrades Somali Famine, But Situation Still Dire

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 04.03.2012

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NAIROBI, Kenya — The United Nations said Friday that Somalia's famine is over, but the world body's Food and Agricultural Organization warned th...

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Somali MIlitant Group Permanently Bans Red Cross Famine Aid

AP | By KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 01.31.2012

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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Somali insurgents have shut down food aid distribution by a major aid group because they say the organization is distributing spoile...

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Al Shabaab Militants Detonate Truck Bomb At Ethiopian Base

AP | By ABDI GULED | Posted 03.25.2012

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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A truck bomb targeted an Ethiopian military base inside Somalia on Tuesday, and Islamist militants claimed responsibility for th...

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Al Qaeda Official Reportedly Killed In U.S. Drone Strike

AP | By ABDI GULED and KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 01.22.2012

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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A U.S. drone strike killed an al-Qaida official of Lebanese origin fighting alongside insurgents in Somalia, officials said. Th...

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Al Shabaab's American Recruits

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO, AMY FORLITI and JULIE WATSON | Posted 03.15.2012

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NAIROBI, Kenya — The October al-Qaida video shows a light-skinned man handing out food to families displaced by famine in Somalia. But the maske...

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Congressman Sees U.S. Threat In Nigerian Terrorist Attacks

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.30.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Few terrorism experts would deny that a radical Islamist sect that has made a series of increasingly audacious attacks in Nigeria, inclu...

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Sometimes the Art Matters... Even More Than Kim Kardashian

Yazmany Arboleda | Posted 01.09.2012

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For one morning, bright yellow balloons changed some commuters' moods in the heart of Kenya's capital city.

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Countering Grenades With Balloons In Kenya

AP | By TOM ODULA | Posted 01.07.2012

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NAIROBI, Kenya -- A U.S. artist handed out thousands of yellow balloons to Nairobi's blue-collar commuters Monday, igniting broad smiles among Kenyans...

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Why Is This Man Smiling?

AP | By TOM ODULA | Posted 01.07.2012

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By TOM ODULA, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya -- A U.S. artist handed out thousands of yellow balloons to Nairobi's blue-collar commuters Monday, ign...

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Al Shabab Suspected In Kenya Church Attack

AP | By BONIFACE BOSIRE | Posted 01.06.2012

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WAJIR, Kenya -- Two people were killed in a suspected al-Shabab attack at a church in an eastern Kenyan town, a police official said Sunday. Kenyan p...

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Refugee Camp Hit In Airstrike, Kenya Blames Al-Shabab For Using Refugees As Human Shield

AP | KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 12.31.2011

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NAIROBI, Kenya — An air strike hit a refugee camp in southern Somalia, killing at least five people and wounding 45, most of them children, an i...

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U.S. Quietly Assumes Military Posture In Africa

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 12.27.2011

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NAIROBI, Kenya — While putting few U.S. troops at risk, the United States is playing a growing role in Africa's military battles, using special ...

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Somalia Suicide Bombing Kills At Least 4

AP | ABDI GULED | Posted 12.18.2011

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MOGADISHU, Somalia — A suicide car bomb exploded near Somalia's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday, killing at least four people even as Somali and Ken...

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Truck Bomb Blast Kills Dozens

AP | By ABDI GULED | Posted 12.04.2011

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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Islamist militants detonated a truck bomb Tuesday in front of the education ministry in Somalia's capital as students and parent...

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AK-47 First Prize In Somali Radio Competition For Children

The Huffington Post | Mark Hanrahan | Posted 11.21.2011

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A Somali radio station with ties to a militant Islamist group awarded rifles and grenades as prizes in a Koran-reciting competition for children. ...

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Famine In The Horn Of Africa

Dion Nicole | Posted 11.01.2011

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Between Anderson Cooper, Bono, and the New York Times deigning to (at least briefly) put a story about famine on the front page, it seems the world has finally taken notice of the unfolding disaster in the Horn of Africa. It is about DAMN time.

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400,000 Somali Children Could Die Without More Aid, Says UK Government

AP | Posted 10.17.2011

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NAIROBI, Kenya -- A British government minister says up to 400,000 Somali children could die of starvation unless urgent action is taken. Internation...

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The Bizarre Social Media Campaign Of Somalia's Terrorists

WorldCrunch | Posted 10.12.2011

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'Americans Are Creating A Monster'

New York Times | Posted 10.11.2011

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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Richard Rouget, a gun for hire over two decades of bloody African conflict, is the unlikely face of the American campaign again...

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