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  1. Landmine kills six childrenRead the original story

    9 hrs ago | Independent Online

    Mogadishu - Six children from the same nomadic family are dead after a landmine from Somalia's wars with Ethiopia blew up in a border village, officials and witnesses said on Tuesday.

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  2. Bomb kills policemen in SomaliaRead the original story

    9 hrs ago | BBC

    ... as the police vehicle drove past on a routine patrol. Puntland has been relatively stable compared with the rest of Somalia but violence has recently increased. Last month a judge known for his tough stance against pirates and Islamist militants was ...

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  3. Somalia: Scores Killed in Mogadishu ViolenceRead the original story

    11 hrs ago | AllAfrica.com

    ... The capital is now unruffled with stalled transport between Mogadishu and Afgoye resuming to normalcy. Meanwhile, Somalia's embattled Prime Minister Omar Ali Sharmarke and a delegation of ministers have travelled from Mogadishu to Nairobi, the ...

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  4. Straight Outta MogadishuRead the original story

    10 hrs ago | Mother Jones

    K'naan 's music sounds a little like Eminem's, if Slim Shady had spent his childhood dodging bullets in Somalia's civil war.

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  5. Landmine kills six childrenRead the original story

    11 hrs ago | Independent Online

    Mogadishu - Six children from the same nomadic family are dead after a landmine from Somalia's wars with Ethiopia blew up in a border village, officials and witnesses said on Tuesday.

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  6. Somali's peacekeepers: underfunded, under attack, but still thereRead the original story

    15 hrs ago | TheNational

    ... al Shabab, calling in another death threat. Major Barigye, a spokesman for the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia (Amisom), receives a dozen threatening calls from the Islamist extremist group each night. He normally just laughs them off. ...

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  7. Rebels fight over executions in SomaliaRead the original story w/Photo

    17 hrs ago | Daily Times

    MOGADISHU: Somali rebels have executed two men for adultery and murder, but the verdict prompted a battle between two insurgent factions that killed three of the gunmen, witnesses said on Monday.

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  8. ForeignRead the original story w/Photo

    17 hrs ago | Daily Times

    ... Congolese military operation to oust rebels from eastern Congo has caused... Rebels fight over executions in Somalia MOGADISHU: Somali rebels have executed two men for adultery and murder, but the verdict prompted a battle between two insurgent ...

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  9. Soldier Slang in AfghanistanRead the original story

    18 hrs ago | Fox News

    ... "Mogadishu" because "it looked like it was from Black Hawk Down," a 1999 book chronicling a tragic Army operation in Somalia and later adapted for the screen. Kohler said the street reminded him of the movie because "it would be empty at first, and ...

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  10. University in Mogadishu reopens after bombingRead the original story

    19 hrs ago | Gulf Times

    Somalia 's government blamed the December 3 attack on Al Shabaab insurgents and said it was carried out by a 26-year-old Danish citizen of Somali descent.

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  11. SEALS accused of detainee abuse: terrorist claims he got a fat lipRead the original story w/Photo

    20 hrs ago | Examiner.com

    ... terrorists will be U.S. weakness. And that will invite more terrorism as surely as our shameful withdrawal from Somalia after Americans were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu inspires Osama bin Laden. Excerpt from letter written by Rep. Dan ...

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  12. The high-risk game of kidnap negotiationsRead the original story

    22 hrs ago | Toronto Sun

    ... the shadows, to outline tense days trying to get to Lindout and Brennan, who were kidnapped after just four days in Somalia. That meant getting past nervous and inexperienced thugs. The pair - held for 15 months - was released last month after a ...

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  13. Thumb for HIJACKRead the original story

    23 hrs ago | AlertNet

    Pirates have seized an Indian dhow off the coast of Somalia in the third such incident in a week, a regional maritime official said on Monday.

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  14. SOMALIA: Attack on graduation ceremony the "last straw"Read the original story

    23 hrs ago | IRIN

    Women wave flags in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, during a demonstration against Al-Shabab insurgents following the 03 December suicide bombing of a graduation ceremony NAIROBI, 10 December 2009 - This month's deadly bombing of a medical school's graduation ceremony in Somalia will likely reduce the popularity of the country's main Islamist ...

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  15. In Somalia, a oeStonera Has a Different MeaningRead the original story

    Yesterday | VDARE.com

    Tiger Woods should avoid the Mogadishu Open when he returns to golf from his time-out repairing his marriage , since adultery is taken seriously in Somalia by Allah's loyal servants.

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  16. Somali Islamist rebels fight over executionsRead the original story

    Yesterday | Gulf Times

    ... commercial shipping in the Indian Ocean and busy Gulf of Aden . Pirates have seized an Indian dhow off the coast of Somalia in the third such incident in a week, a regional maritime official said yesterday. Andrew Mwangura of the Mombasa-based East ...

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  17. Pictured: Islamic militants stone man to death for adultery in...Read the original story w/Photo

    Yesterday | Daily Mail

    ... and adultery. No mercy: The militants bury Ibrahim in the ground in a village south-west of lawless Mogadishu, Somalia A woman who had confessed to fornication had been sentenced to 100 lashes, he added. 'This is their day of justice,' the judge, ...

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  18. 24 Hours VancouverRead the original story

    Yesterday | 24 Hours Vancouer

    ... the shadows, to outline tense days trying to get to Lindout and Brennan, who were kidnapped after just four days in Somalia. That meant getting past nervous and inexperienced thugs. The pair - held for 15 months - was released last month after a ...

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  19. Land mine kills 6 Somali children in same familyRead the original story

    Yesterday | Clover Herald

    A community leader in Somalia says an explosion of an old land mine has killed six children from the same family near the border with Ethiopia.

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  20. Class resumes at Mogadishu university after bombingRead the original story

    Saturday Dec 12 | Walta Information Centre

    ... determined to continue lessons despite a suicide bombing at their medical graduation ceremony that killed 22 people. Somalia 's government blamed the December 3 attack on al Shabaab insurgents and said it was carried out by a 26-year-old Danish ...

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