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Trump orders withdrawal of US troops from Somalia

Saturday, December 5th 2020, 10:50
related countries: United States United States

The US has about 700 personnel in the country targeting al-Shabab and Islamic State militants.
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Life after al-Shabab: Driving a school bus instead of an armed pickup truck

Monday, November 23rd 2020, 0:59

The Somali government retrains defectors from the al-Shabab militant group as barbers, drivers, mechanics and tailors.
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The Somali man who has a scorpion named after him

Wednesday, November 4th 2020, 0:04

Somali environmentalist Ahmed Ibrahim Awale hopes it will inspire African researchers.
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Taiwan charges Chinese captain over killing of 'Somali pirates'

Tuesday, October 20th 2020, 16:34
related countries: China China, Taiwan Taiwan

Officials say the Chinese national ordered the killings while captaining a Taiwanese vessel in 2012.
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Why a Somali-born fighter is being honoured in Rome

Saturday, August 22nd 2020, 23:11
related countries: Italy Italy
related places: Rome

Some Italians are re-evaluating their colonial past in East Africa, writes Ismail Einashe.
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Somali hotel raid: 'How I survived my fourth siege'

Tuesday, August 18th 2020, 23:11

An ex-BBC reporter, caught up in his fourth al-Shabab attack, on his ordeal and his friend's death.
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Mogadishu attack: Somali troops end deadly siege at Elite Hotel

Monday, August 17th 2020, 12:59
related places: Mogadishu

At least 12 people are dead after al-Shabab militants stormed the Elite Hotel in the capital.
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Somalia prison: Deadly shootout after al-Shabab militants attempt escape

Tuesday, August 11th 2020, 16:24

At least 20 people are killed in a heavy shootout at a jail in Mogadishu, officials say.
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Mogadishu: Several killed in attack at Somali military base

Saturday, August 8th 2020, 11:42
related places: Mogadishu

The militant group Al-Shabab has said it was behind the explosion that rocked the capital Mogadishu.
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The gravedigger’s truth: Hidden coronavirus deaths

Sunday, July 26th 2020, 23:02

Somalia has fewer than 100 official Covid-19 deaths. But its cemeteries tell a different story.
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Viewpoint: What Donald Trump gets wrong about Somalia

Monday, July 6th 2020, 10:38
related countries: United States United States

Somalia has been caught up in the US election campaign thanks to Donald Trump, writes Ismail Einashe.
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Somali soldiers end protest over unpaid salaries

Sunday, June 21st 2020, 17:49

Troops had blocked roads in the capital Mogadishu, with some saying they had not been paid in a year.
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The Somali atheist activists who get death threats

Tuesday, June 2nd 2020, 23:08

Ayaanle and Kahaa work online to help Somalis who have views that do not square with tradition.
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Somalia's coronavirus khat bans leaves chewers in a stew

Wednesday, May 13th 2020, 23:34

Somalia's government curbs the use of khat after raising concern that it could help spread Covid-19.
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Italian aid worker kidnapped in Kenya in 2018 returns home

Sunday, May 10th 2020, 16:38
related countries: Italy Italy, Kenya Kenya

Silvia Romano, 25, was freed on Saturday in Somalia, in an operation by Italy's secret services.
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US reports deaths of civilians in Somali air strike

Monday, April 27th 2020, 16:07
related countries: United States United States

An operation that killed two al-Shabab militants also killed two civilians and injured three more.
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Coronavirus: Somali diaspora sends home stories of woe

Monday, April 20th 2020, 23:11
related countries: United Kingdom United Kingdom

British-Somalis have been badly hit in both economic and human terms.
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Hudeidi: The Somali 'king of oud' who was felled by coronavirus

Sunday, April 19th 2020, 0:02
related countries: United Kingdom United Kingdom
related places: London

Somali musician Ahmed Ismail Hussein Hudeidi died in London from coronavirus at the age of 91.
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Somali outrage at rape of girls aged three and four

Sunday, April 5th 2020, 10:23

The two cousins were abducted as they walked home from school and now need major surgery.
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Coronavirus: Fighting al-Shabab propaganda in Somalia

Wednesday, April 1st 2020, 23:36

Muslim clerics in Somalia are moving to the front-line of the battle against coronavirus.
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Al-Shabab's Bashir Mohamed Qorgab 'killed in air strike in Somalia'

Sunday, March 8th 2020, 11:28
related countries: United States United States

The US military was hunting for the jihadist, but it has not yet commented on reports of his death.
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Locust swarm: UN warns of food crisis in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Somalia

Friday, February 14th 2020, 17:40
related countries: Ethiopia Ethiopia, Kenya Kenya, Uganda Uganda

The infestation devouring tonnes of crops in the region could create a food crisis, the UN says.
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Kenya bus attack: Three killed in Lamu county

Thursday, January 2nd 2020, 13:21

The gunmen who targeted the bus, travelling close to the Somali border, have not been identified.
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Rush-hour vehicle bomb kills dozens in Somali capital

Saturday, December 28th 2019, 21:10
related places: Mogadishu

At least 76 people are killed by a massive vehicle bomb during morning rush hour in Mogadishu.
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Somalia: What does the future hold for my country?

Monday, December 2nd 2019, 0:01

Somali journalist Jamal Osman has watched his country being torn apart by civil war for three decades.
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Somalia floods: Massive aid effort as thousands hit

Wednesday, November 6th 2019, 13:17

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced after two rivers burst their banks.
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US in Somalia: Is it still a safe haven for al-Shabab?

Tuesday, October 8th 2019, 0:39
related countries: United States United States
related places: Mogadishu

The US is reopening its embassy in Mogadishu - but what's the country's involvement there?
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Somalia: Jihadists attack US training base at Baledogle

Monday, September 30th 2019, 14:03
related countries: United States United States

Al-Shabab militants blast through gates and send in fighters before reportedly being pushed back.
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Somali journalist: 'I was the only female reporter in my city'

Wednesday, September 25th 2019, 8:02

Maryan Seylac describes life as a reporter in one of the most dangerous countries for journalists.
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Iranian hostage freed by Somali pirates after four years

Saturday, September 21st 2019, 16:55
related countries: Iran Iran

The freeing of the Iranian sailor means Somali pirates now hold only three remaining captives.
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Ilhan Omar reveals racist threat to shoot her at state fair

Thursday, August 29th 2019, 16:00

Ilhan Omar speaks out as an Alabama Republican says she should "go back to Somalia".
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My late friend, the mayor of Mogadishu

Saturday, August 3rd 2019, 0:11
related places: Mogadishu

Abdirahman Omar Osman was murdered after returning to Somalia to help rebuild his home nation.
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Abdirahman Omar Osman, Mogadishu mayor, dies after suicide bombing

Thursday, August 1st 2019, 17:36

The mayor had returned from the UK to help rebuild his country after years of war.
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Migrant crisis: Self-immolation exposes UN failures in Libya

Tuesday, July 30th 2019, 23:20
related countries: Libya Libya

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 - I disagree with Omar 'send her back' chants

Thursday, July 18th 2019, 17:59

Trump supporters at a rally directed their chant at Ilhan Omar, a Somali-born lawmaker from Minnesota.
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Hodan Nalayeh prize: Somalia to honour journalist murdered by al-Shabab

Tuesday, July 16th 2019, 10:00

Hodan Nalayeh relocated to Somalia last year to help rebuild the country of her birth.
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Kismayo attack: At least 26 dead as gunmen storm Somali hotel

Sunday, July 14th 2019, 5:12

Journalist Hodan Nalayeh, who set up a popular media platform, is reportedly among those killed.
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Hodan Nalayeh: Somalia's 'inspirational' journalist, killed in Kismayo

Saturday, July 13th 2019, 21:16
related countries: Canada Canada

Hodan Nalayeh launched a TV station in Canada and had recently moved to live and work in Somalia.
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Militants killed while attacking Kenya police base

Saturday, June 22nd 2019, 13:36
related countries: Kenya Kenya

They are believed to have been fighters from the Somalia-based al-Shabab Islamist group, police say.
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Mother and daughter graduate from US university on same day

Friday, June 7th 2019, 23:01
related countries: United States United States

Falhad Mohamud graduates from a US university with her daughter Amina, having fled Somalia in 1980.
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London teens sent to Africa to escape knife crime

Tuesday, May 28th 2019, 0:48
related countries: United Kingdom United Kingdom

Why British Somali parents are sending their children to East Africa to avoid violence in the UK.
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Ethiopia apologises for map that erases Somalia

Monday, May 27th 2019, 12:27

It appeared on the foreign ministry website, showing its neighbour incorporated within its borders.
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Ex-boss of Ethiopia's notorious Jail Ogaden arrested

Sunday, May 26th 2019, 18:07
related countries: Ethiopia Ethiopia

The man who ran a jail where suspected separatists were reportedly tortured is captured in Somalia.
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Virginia Uber driver was Somali war criminal

Tuesday, May 21st 2019, 22:08

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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The man behind Somalia's only free ambulance service

Sunday, April 14th 2019, 23:24

Aamin Ambulance service has become well known for being the first on the scene after a militant attack.
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Cuban doctors kidnap: Gunmen seize medics in north-east Kenya

Friday, April 12th 2019, 11:07
related countries: Cuba Cuba, Kenya Kenya

The two are thought to have been taken to Somalia after the attack in which one policeman was killed.
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