We have started to collect the most important news related to Somalia in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
The US has about 700 personnel in the country targeting al-Shabab and Islamic State militants.
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The Somali government retrains defectors from the al-Shabab militant group as barbers, drivers, mechanics and tailors.
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Somali environmentalist Ahmed Ibrahim Awale hopes it will inspire African researchers.
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Officials say the Chinese national ordered the killings while captaining a Taiwanese vessel in 2012.
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Some Italians are re-evaluating their colonial past in East Africa, writes Ismail Einashe.
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An ex-BBC reporter, caught up in his fourth al-Shabab attack, on his ordeal and his friend's death.
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At least 12 people are dead after al-Shabab militants stormed the Elite Hotel in the capital.
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At least 20 people are killed in a heavy shootout at a jail in Mogadishu, officials say.
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The militant group Al-Shabab has said it was behind the explosion that rocked the capital Mogadishu.
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Somalia has fewer than 100 official Covid-19 deaths. But its cemeteries tell a different story.
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Somalia has been caught up in the US election campaign thanks to Donald Trump, writes Ismail Einashe.
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Troops had blocked roads in the capital Mogadishu, with some saying they had not been paid in a year.
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Ayaanle and Kahaa work online to help Somalis who have views that do not square with tradition.
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Somalia's government curbs the use of khat after raising concern that it could help spread Covid-19.
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Silvia Romano, 25, was freed on Saturday in Somalia, in an operation by Italy's secret services.
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An operation that killed two al-Shabab militants also killed two civilians and injured three more.
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British-Somalis have been badly hit in both economic and human terms.
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Somali musician Ahmed Ismail Hussein Hudeidi died in London from coronavirus at the age of 91.
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The two cousins were abducted as they walked home from school and now need major surgery.
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Muslim clerics in Somalia are moving to the front-line of the battle against coronavirus.
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The US military was hunting for the jihadist, but it has not yet commented on reports of his death.
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The infestation devouring tonnes of crops in the region could create a food crisis, the UN says.
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The gunmen who targeted the bus, travelling close to the Somali border, have not been identified.
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At least 76 people are killed by a massive vehicle bomb during morning rush hour in Mogadishu.
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Somali journalist Jamal Osman has watched his country being torn apart by civil war for three decades.
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Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced after two rivers burst their banks.
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The US is reopening its embassy in Mogadishu - but what's the country's involvement there?
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Al-Shabab militants blast through gates and send in fighters before reportedly being pushed back.
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Maryan Seylac describes life as a reporter in one of the most dangerous countries for journalists.
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The freeing of the Iranian sailor means Somali pirates now hold only three remaining captives.
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Ilhan Omar speaks out as an Alabama Republican says she should "go back to Somalia".
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Abdirahman Omar Osman was murdered after returning to Somalia to help rebuild his home nation.
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The mayor had returned from the UK to help rebuild his country after years of war.
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A Somali man held in a detention centre burns himself to death, leading to renewed criticism of EU and UN policy.
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Trump supporters at a rally directed their chant at Ilhan Omar, a Somali-born lawmaker from Minnesota.
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Hodan Nalayeh relocated to Somalia last year to help rebuild the country of her birth.
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Journalist Hodan Nalayeh, who set up a popular media platform, is reportedly among those killed.
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Hodan Nalayeh launched a TV station in Canada and had recently moved to live and work in Somalia.
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They are believed to have been fighters from the Somalia-based al-Shabab Islamist group, police say.
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Falhad Mohamud graduates from a US university with her daughter Amina, having fled Somalia in 1980.
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Why British Somali parents are sending their children to East Africa to avoid violence in the UK.
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It appeared on the foreign ministry website, showing its neighbour incorporated within its borders.
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The man who ran a jail where suspected separatists were reportedly tortured is captured in Somalia.
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Thirty-one years after he was left for dead, one of the taxi driver's victims has his day in court.
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Aamin Ambulance service has become well known for being the first on the scene after a militant attack.
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The two are thought to have been taken to Somalia after the attack in which one policeman was killed.
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