News: Somalia

We have started to collect the most important news related to Somalia in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Somalia: news

Rain hits Somali drought victims

Friday, July 15th 2011, 9:48
related places: Mogadishu

People who have fled the drought in Somalia to camps near the capital Mogadishu are now being hit by days of cold, heavy rain.
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Kenya allows drought refugee camp

Thursday, July 14th 2011, 19:14
related countries: Kenya

Kenya has agreed to open a new refugee camp near its border with Somalia, as thousands flee the region's worst drought in 60 years.
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Failed state

Thursday, July 14th 2011, 10:08

Years of conflict have left Somalia unable to cope with drought
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VIDEO: Africa drought: What you need to know

Wednesday, July 13th 2011, 21:51

BBC Somali's editor Yusuf-Garaad Omar talks about the situation in the region.
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UK charities step up Somalia aid

Wednesday, July 13th 2011, 9:59
related countries: United Kingdom

British aid agencies prepare to expand their activities in Somalia to help some of the 10 million people at risk of starvation in East Africa.
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Aid supplies boosted in Somalia

Tuesday, July 12th 2011, 9:56
related places: Mogadishu

An Islamic aid agency starts distributing aid in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, following the lifting of a ban on aid work by al-Shabab militants.
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VIDEO: Why is this Kenyan refugee camp empty?

Monday, July 11th 2011, 16:03
related countries: Kenya

The head of the United Nations refugee agency has urged Kenya to open its Ifo II camp to refugees escaping drought and war in Somalia.
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VIDEO: Kenya urged to open refugee camp

Monday, July 11th 2011, 13:10
related countries: Kenya

The head of the United Nations refugee agency has urged Kenya to open a new camp for people fleeing drought and war in Somalia.
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Kenya pressed over drought camp

Monday, July 11th 2011, 10:21
related countries: Kenya

The UN refugee agency head urges Kenya's president to open a new camp for people fleeing drought and war in Somalia but a meeting between the pair is cancelled.
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Somalis flee drought to Mogadishu

Sunday, July 10th 2011, 12:05
related places: Mogadishu

Somalis fleeing from the country's worsening drought are converging on the capital, Mogadishu, ruined by 20 years of civil war.
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VIDEO: Refugees flood into Somali camps

Sunday, July 10th 2011, 8:49

The head of the UN refugee agency has described food shortages in Somali refugee camps are "the worst humanitarian disaster" in the world today.
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UN calls for aid inside Somalia

Saturday, July 9th 2011, 21:38

UN refugee agency head Antonio Guterres tells the BBC he wants international agencies to go into Somalia to help drought victims.
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Drought camps form inside Somalia

Saturday, July 9th 2011, 11:27

Camps of people fleeing East Africa's worsening drought start forming inside Somalia, says medical aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres.
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Drought emergency

Friday, July 8th 2011, 22:17
related countries: Ethiopia

Somali refugees engulf Ethiopia town
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'A vision of hell'

Friday, July 8th 2011, 10:18

The Somali mothers so desperate they let their children die
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VIDEO: Aid agencies let back into Somalia

Wednesday, July 6th 2011, 16:55

They were banned in 2009 for being "anti-muslim" but now the drought gripping the Horn of Africa has forced a rethink.
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Somalia Islamists lift ban on aid

Wednesday, July 6th 2011, 14:26

Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab lifts a ban on foreign food aid to help curb the worst drought in 60 years - a move welcomed by the UN.
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Somali terror suspect in US court

Wednesday, July 6th 2011, 11:17
related countries: United States
related places: New York

A Somali man appears in court in New York on terror charges after a two-month interrogation on a US warship without hearing his rights.
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Horn of Africa hunger 'tragedy'

Wednesday, July 6th 2011, 6:29

Malnutrition among children fleeing Somalia's drought could lead to a "tragedy of unimaginable proportions", the UN refugee head says.
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VIDEO: Children starving in civil war exodus

Tuesday, July 5th 2011, 15:06
related countries: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda

Rains have failed for the past three seasons and more than 12 million people across Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, Kenya and Uganda are facing severe shortages of food.
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UK told to keep Somali criminals

Wednesday, June 29th 2011, 8:24
related countries: United Kingdom

The UK must not deport two Somalis convicted of serious crimes because their home country is too dangerous, the European Court of Human Rights rules.
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Uganda and Burundi to get drones

Tuesday, June 28th 2011, 15:31
related countries: Burundi, Uganda, United States

The US is supplying drone aircrafts to Uganda and Burundi to help them fight Islamist militants in Somalia, defence officials tell the BBC.
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Somalis flood across Kenya border

Tuesday, June 28th 2011, 10:40
related countries: Kenya

War and drought in Somalia are leading to an unprecedented number of people fleeing across the border into Kenya, Save the Children says.
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Three Britons pardoned in Somalia

Sunday, June 26th 2011, 17:17

Three Britons caught bringing $3m (£2m) in cash illegally into Somalia to pay a ransom to pirates are pardoned by the president.
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Freed Indian sailors reach Delhi

Friday, June 24th 2011, 11:06
related countries: India
related places: Delhi

Six Indian sailors, recently freed by Somali pirates after nearly 11 months in captivity, return home to joyous celebrations.
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Air raid targets Somali Islamists

Friday, June 24th 2011, 9:16

Somali Islamist militants come under attack in an evening raid by two foreign helicopters near their stronghold of Kismayo, their spokesman says.
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Somalia's prime minister resigns

Sunday, June 19th 2011, 11:51

Somalia's Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed resigns 'in the interests of the people', following a UN-backed deal to oust him.
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Somalia jails 'ransom' couriers

Saturday, June 18th 2011, 20:31

Somalia jails six foreigners for bringing $3m (£2m) in cash illegally into the country, allegedly to pay ransoms to pirates.
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'Mogadishu music'

Saturday, June 18th 2011, 11:01

The daily fight for life amid Somalia's gun battles
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VIDEO: The daily fight for life in Somalia

Friday, June 17th 2011, 15:25
related places: Mogadishu

Panorama hears from the refugees of Mogadishu in Somalia about the daily struggle for life in a country racked by a bloody civil war between a failing government and Islamist extremists.
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Somali militant's passport 'fake'

Wednesday, June 15th 2011, 15:27
related countries: South Africa

South Africa declares the passport found on the body of the senior African al-Qaeda militant Fazul Abdullah Mohammed a forgery.
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Somali PM vows to stay in power

Tuesday, June 14th 2011, 16:27

Somalia's Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo refuses to resign, defying a UN-backed deal to oust him.
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BBC vows to protect World Service

Sunday, June 12th 2011, 9:18

Lord Patten tells the Sunday Telegraph his love of the BBC World Service made protecting it a "priority" - particularly the "core" Arabic, Somali and Hindi services.
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VIDEO: Senior al-Qaeda militant shot dead

Sunday, June 12th 2011, 0:41

The man believed to be the leader of al-Qaeda in East Africa, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, has been shot dead in Somalia.
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'African US embassy bomber dead'

Saturday, June 11th 2011, 17:08
related countries: United States
related places: Mogadishu

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a senior al-Qaeda figure suspected of playing a key role in the 1998 US embassy bombings in East Africa, is killed in Somalia, officials say.
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Somali minister killed by niece

Friday, June 10th 2011, 20:21
related places: Mogadishu

Somalia's interior minister is killed in a suicide attack carried out by his niece, amid ongoing political unrest in the capital in Mogadishu.
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Rival Somali leaders reach deal

Thursday, June 9th 2011, 15:56

After months of squabbling that angered donors and jeopardised gains from Islamist militants, rival Somali government leaders agree to delay elections for a year.
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Uganda threatens Somalia pullout

Friday, June 3rd 2011, 1:12
related countries: Uganda

Uganda's President Museveni calls for Somalia's transitional government to be given more time to consolidate gains against Islamist militants.
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Burundi's Somali force 'unpaid'

Thursday, June 2nd 2011, 10:45
related countries: Burundi

Burundian soldiers serving with the African Union peace force in war-torn Somalia tell the BBC they have not been paid since January.
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Somalia's child casualties surge

Tuesday, May 31st 2011, 18:11

There is a sharp rise in the number of children being injured in fighting in Somalia - almost all of May's total casualties were under the age of five, the UN says.
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Somali pirates jailed in S Korea

Friday, May 27th 2011, 11:47
related countries: North Korea

A South Korean court jails four Somali pirates over the hijacking of a Korean ship and the attempted murder of its captain in the Arabian Sea.
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Hijack proof

Thursday, May 26th 2011, 23:19

Is it possible to guard your yacht from Somali pirates?
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VIDEO: Anti-pirate training in West Virginia

Thursday, May 26th 2011, 20:12

On the Ohio River in West Virginia, a former captain and his company demonstrate how to defend against pirate attacks off the Somali coast.
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SA attacks on Somali-owned shops

Thursday, May 26th 2011, 15:31
related countries: South Africa
related places: Port Elizabeth

More than 50 Somali-owned shops in the South African city of Port Elizabeth are attacked and looted overnight by local residents.
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Foreigners held over Somalia cash

Wednesday, May 25th 2011, 10:41
related countries: Kenya, United Kingdom, United States
related places: Mogadishu, Six

Six foreigners are arrested as they fly into Mogadishu with $3.6m (£2.2m) in cash, Somali police say, amid reports the money may have been a ransom payment for pirates.
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