Somalia Violence

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Somalia: Islamists Whip Women For Wearing Bras

Reuters | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's hardline Islamist group al Shabaab has publicly whipped women for wearing bras they say violate Islam by constituting ...

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Somali Militants Attacked By Foreign Troops

BBC NEWS | Posted 11.14.2009 | World

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Foreign soldiers have staged an attack on militants in Somalia, killing at least two people in a helicopter raid. The troops, who according to some r...

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Somalia Faces Worst Humanitarian Crisis In 18 Years

AFP | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

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NAIROBI (AFP) - Persistent violence and a prolonged drought have plunged Somalia into its worst humanitarian crisis since civil war erupted two decade...

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Somalia: World Food Program Compound Attacked By Islamist Rebels

AP | Abdi Sheikh | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Gunmen stormed a U.N. aid compound in Somalia overnight, sparking a gunbattle that killed three of the attackers and wounded...

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Somali Pirates Overpowered By Egyptian Crew

AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 09.14.2009 | World

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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Using machetes and guns, the men fought a desperate battle to take control of two boats off the Somali coast. But this time...

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Somalia: Islamists Yank Gold Teeth Of 'Sinners'

Huffington Post | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

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The notorious Somali Islamist group al Shabaab is yanking gold and silver teeth from the mouths of people in southern Somalia for transgressing from I...

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Somalia, Al Qaeda Haven, To Be Obama's New Afghanistan: CSM

Christian Science Monitor | Posted 09.07.2009 | World

The Horn of Africa is a hotbed of pirates, Islamic radicals, warlords, refugees, and, lately, foreign armies trying to influence this killing field. T...

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Kenya-Somalia Border To Be Secured

BBC News | Posted 08.22.2009 | World

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Kenya has promised to reinforce its border with Somalia after several abductions near the frontier....

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Somalia Refugees Flee Mogadishu By The Thousands

Al Jazeera English | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

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Thousands of people have fled the Somali capital Mogadishu amid escalating fighting between government forces and opposition fighters....

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Somalia Amputations Postponed Due To Weather

AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 07.24.2009 | World

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NAIROBI, Kenya — An Islamic court in Somalia that sentenced four men to have a hand and a leg cut off postponed the punishment Tuesday, saying t...

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Ethiopian Troops Back In Somalia

Christian Science Monitor | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

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With or without an international mandate, Ethiopian forces have entered Somali territory to back up a fast-failing Somali government....

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Somalia State Of Emergency Declared By President

AP | Posted 07.23.2009 | World

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MOGADISHU, Somalia — A court run by an extremist Islamic group sentenced four Somali men on Monday to each have a hand and a leg cut off for all...

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Medina Hotel Suicide Bombing Kills 20 Including Somali Official

AP | TOM MALITI | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Somalia's national security minister and at least 24 other people were killed in a suicide attack Thursday in western Somalia, ...

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Mogadishu: Inside The City The World Forgot

The Guardian | Ghaith Abdul | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

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In a rare dispatch from war-ravaged Mogadishu, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad found a city daring to hope for a break from years of violence. Then the fighting res...

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Somalia Fighting Escalates In Capital Mogadishu

AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 06.22.2009 | World

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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Hundreds of government soldiers attacked Islamic insurgents across the Somali capital amid heavy artillery shelling Friday,...

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Somalia Violence Explodes; Thousands Flee Capital

AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 06.15.2009 | World

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NAIROBI, Kenya — After months of hopeful glimmers in one of the most explosive countries in the world, violence again is roiling Somalia as mort...

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Somali Insurgents Vow To Topple Government

AP | MOHAMED SHEIKH NOR | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Pro-government militias and Islamic insurgents battled in Somalia's capital Wednesday for a fourth day, as an insurgent lea...

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Somali Rebel Violence The Work Of Foreign States: Somali President

Reuters | Posted 06.11.2009 | World

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Somalia's president accused Islamist insurgents on Monday of working for foreign governments trying to destabilise his Horn of Africa nation after fou...

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The US Role in Somalia's Calamity

Chris Albin-Lackey | Posted 01.29.2009 | World

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US policy not only has displayed a callous disregard for the basic human rights of Somalis, but it has failed on its own terms, breeding the very extremism it sought to eliminate.

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