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Shells land in compound of SOS Children's Village Mogadishu
The SOS Children's Village Mogadishu was under siege yesterday when four missile shells exploded in the project grounds during heavy fighting around t...
Read More »Latest Mogadishu violence kills 21 people
MOGADISHU, April 20 (Reuters) - Sporadic shelling and gunfire went on through the night in Mogadishu and residents on Friday said latest fighting and ...
Read More »Situation of displaced worsening amid reports of further fighting in capital
This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today's Palais des Nations press briefing in Geneva. Further information can be found ...
Read More »Heavy fighting resumes in Somali capital
Heavy fighting between Ethiopian forces and Islamist insurgents resumed in the Somali capital Friday with exchanges of machine-gun fire and mortar she...
Read More »U.N. Somalia humanitarian chief warns of catastrophe
GENEVA (Reuters) - A catastrophe is looming in Somalia, where 100,000 people fleeing fighting in Mogadishu lack food and clean water and a diarrhoea e...
Read More »Suicide bomb and market attack in Mogadishu
Rockets slammed into a Mogadishu market amid battles between troops and Somali insurgents that killed at least 12 civilians but probably many more, re...
Read More »Somalia Violence Intensifies
(CBS/AP) Somalia's deputy defense minister has blamed al Qaeda elements for a suicide car bombing at an Ethiopian army base on the outskirts of Mogadi...
Read More »UN sends emergency relief to displaced Somalis
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said Thursday it has sent humanitarian and medical supplies from Dadaab refugee camp, in northeastern Kenya, to displace...
Read More »Kenya struggling to cope with refugees
Nairobi (dpa) - Thousands of Somalis fleeing conflict in their country face the growing threat of disease at their makeshift refugee camp near the Ken...
Read More »Somaliland condemns two to death for slain aid workers
HARGEISA (Reuters) - The Supreme Court in the self-declared republic of Somaliland has sentenced two men to be executed by firing squad for the murder...
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