We have started to collect the most important news related to Somalia in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
Learning to have fun in Mogadishu after years of warfare
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At least three people have been killed in grenade attacks in eastern Kenya, near the border with Somalia, officials say.
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Ethiopian troops have crossed the border into Somalia in significant numbers, eyewitnesses say - an incursion denied by the Ethiopian authorities.
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Famine no longer exists in three of the worst-affected areas of Somalia after the intervention of aid agencies, the UN says but warns the situation is still critical.
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Kenya is prepared to send troops to bolster the African Union (AU) force in Somalia to tackle the militant Islamist group al-Shabab, Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula tells the BBC.
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Six men go on trial in Paris over an attack on a yacht in September 2008, in the first French prosecution of suspected Somali pirates.
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The crew of a Taiwanese fishing vessel have overwhelmed a group of armed Somali pirates who hijacked their boat last week.
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Kenya's military spokesman says large groups of donkeys in Somalia will be considered "al-Shabab activity" following reports the militants are using the animals to transport weapons.
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Eritrea denies reports that it delivered weapons by air this week to the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab which is battling Kenyan troops in Somalia.
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Hundreds of Somalis continue to cross the border to seek help Ethiopia, three months after famine was declared in the region.
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Somalia's government says its forces, backed by Kenyans, have repulsed an Islamist ambush as Kenya's military warns via Twitter of attacks.
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Kenya's military spokesman warns the residents of 10 towns in Somalia via Twitter that they "will be under attack continuously".
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Somalia's Prime Minister, Mohamed Abdiweli, says Somali forces are taking the lead to defeat Al Shabab and are delivering aid to the regions worst affected in the drought.
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At least five people, including three children, die after a refugee camp in southern Somalia is bombed, the MSF charity says - Kenya blames al-Shabab.
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Are Kenyan troops seeking to set up a buffer state in Somalia?
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The US military begins flying unarmed drone aircraft from a base in Ethiopia, as part of its fight against Islamist militants in neighbouring Somalia.
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Kenyan troops clash with Islamist militants inside Somalia for the first time since crossing the border nearly two weeks ago.
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Armed men launch a rocket-propelled grenade attack on a vehicle near Kenya's border with Somalia, killing four people, reports say.
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A South African couple kidnapped by Somali pirates a year ago make a direct appeal for their release in a recorded conversation with relatives.
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A combination of a military build-up in Somalia and heavy rains are making the humanitarian relief effort in the country even harder, the UN warns.
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A hostage being held by Somali pirates has made a direct appeal for his release.
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A Kenyan man arrested after two grenade blasts exploded in the capital, Nairobi, admits in court to being a member of a Somali militant group.
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For the first time in years residents of the Somali capital Mogadishu are able to enjoy the beaches after militants withdrew from the city.
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Gunmen abduct two foreign aid workers and a Somali national employed by a Danish aid agency in the north-central Somalia.
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France will give logistical support to Kenyan forces pursuing Islamist militants across the border in Somalia, a French military spokesman says.
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Paul and Rachel Chandler criticise the government for putting the Foreign Office in charge of securing their release from Somali pirates, rather than police.
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Somalia's president says his transitional government is opposed to Kenya's military incursion into Somalia last week in pursuit of Islamist militants.
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Governments in the Horn of Africa welcome Kenya's offensive into Somalia against al-Shabab militants.
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The African Union denies that 70 bodies displayed by Somalia's Islamist group al-Shabab were those of its troops killed in fighting in the capital, Mogadishu.
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Kenya announces that it will launch a major security operation in its capital to flush out sympathisers of the Somali Islamist group, al-Shabab.
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East Africa's drought remains huge, says the UK international development secretary, three months after famine was declared in Somalia.
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A 66-year-old French woman kidnapped from Kenya by Somali gunmen has died, say French officials.
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A suicide car bomb kills five civilians in Somalia's capital as Kenyan ministers hold talks nearby, two days after Kenyan troops enter southern Somalia.
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Two 18-year-old men from Cardiff are being questioned by anti-terror police in Kenya after being arrested crossing the border into Somalia.
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Kenyan troops with aerial support continuing their advance into Somalia, as a suspected suicide car bomb kills at least three civilians in Mogadishu.
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Two Britons, believed to be from Cardiff, are arrested in Kenya, near the border with Somalia.
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Somali militant group al-Shabab demands that Kenya withdraws its troops from Somalia, after Nairobi launches an operation to push the hard-line group back.
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Kenya says it has sent air and ground troops into Somalia to pursue al-Shabab militants following a spate of cross-border kidnappings of Westerners.
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Kenyan troops and armoured vehicles have crossed into neighbouring Somalia, residents say, in pursuit of militants suspected of a spate of kidnappings.
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Kenyan troops cross into Somalia to pursue militants suspected of kidnapping, but a Somali diplomat at the UN says this could only worsen the situation.
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A man claiming to be from al-Qaeda distributes aid in Somalia, highlighting the group's links with al-Shabab militants.
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Gunmen have kidnapped two Spanish doctors working for the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) near Kenya's border with Somalia.
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Two Spanish women doctors working for a medical charity are seized from the world's largest refugee camp, near the Kenya-Somalia border.
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UK and US naval forces have rescued a ship hijacked by Somali pirates after its crew sent an SOS message in a bottle, Italian officials say.
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Heavy fighting between government forces and militant Islamists in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, forces the closure of a hospital, an aid group says.
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African Union troops say they have driven Islamist al-Shabab militants out of their last stronghold in the north of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
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