We have started to collect the most important news related to Somalia in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
The UNHCR flies famine aid to Somalia's capital - its first airlift for five years to the city where militants have been seen despite news of their withdrawal.
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Somalia's al-Shabab Islamist rebels leave their positions in Somalia's capital of Mogadishu, calling it a change of military tactics.
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At least seven people are killed and several wounded when a gunfight breaks out as food aid is distributed at a camp in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
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More than 11 million people have been affected by the worst drought in 60 years in the Horn of Africa.
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The United Nations has declared famine zones in three more regions of Somalia, because of the rates of malnutrition and death brought on by the worst drought in 60 years.
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Three new areas of Somalia are classified as being hit by famine as the worst drought in 60 years affects the Horn of Africa, the UN says
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The United Nations says the famine is spreading across southern Somalia, as aid struggles to get through the war-torn country.
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The difficulties of getting food to Somali famine victims
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The BBC's Andrew Harding reports from an aid station in the capital Mogadishu, as the African Union says it will hold a summit to pledge help for the victims of Somalia's drought.
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The crisis in Somalia is becoming more desperate with the famine threatening thousands of lives - and the United Nations warning the worst is yet to come.
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The African Union calls the continent's leaders to a "pledging summit" to help the Somali people hit by drought and famine.
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Africa Union peacekeepers say they have seized key territory from Islamist insurgents in Somalia's capital after they allegedly threatened aid camps.
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In Somalia, an operation to airlift emergency supplies into the capital Mogadishu is underway.
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The UN's World Food Programme begins airlifting emergency food supplies to Mogadishu, capital of famine-hit Somalia.
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The UN World Food Programme is set to begin airlifting food aid to Somalia, says the WFP head at crisis talks on East Africa's drought.
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The Somali-born model, Iman, has added her voice to calls for greater help from the international community for famine relief in the African country.
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The World Food Programme is to begin airlifting supplies to parts of the Horn of Africa affected by a devastating drought, which the UN has described as the worst there for 60 years.
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The Red Cross delivers food into one of Somalia's worst hit drought areas, controlled by the Islamist militant group al-Shabab.
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Pirates hijack an Italian diesel tanker off the coast of the west African state of Benin in an attack of the kind more usually associated with Somalia.
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The Red Cross has managed to deliver food to 24,000 people to a town, north-west of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
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Somalia's al-Shabab Islamists deny lifting their ban on some Western aid agencies and reject UN reports of famine in parts of the country.
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Somalia's al-Shabab Islamists deny lifting ban on Western aid agencies and reject UN reports of famine in parts of the country.
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Aid will be airlifted into the Somali capital Mogadishu within days according to the UN as famine grips East Africa.
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The US has said it will send aid to famine-hit areas of Somalia controlled by the Islamist group al-Shabab.
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The US says it will send aid to parts of Somalia controlled by al-Shabab if it receives assurances the Islamist militants will not benefit.
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The UN says famine will spread across Somalia within two months unless the international community sends more aid to the region.
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The UN declares a famine in two areas of southern Somalia, as conditions deteriorate amid the region's worst drought in over half a century.
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The United Nations has declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia as it suffers the worst drought in more than half a century.
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Amnesty International says children in Somalia are being systematically recruited as child soldiers by Islamic insurgents.
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A famine will be officially declared in parts of Somalia on Wednesday, following reports regarding the situation in the Horn of Africa from multiple aid agencies.
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The UN about to declare famine after East Africa drought
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A man from the US state of Minnesota admits helping men of Somali origin travel to the African country to join the al-Shabab militant group.
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The UN accepts the Somali drought is now so severe that help must go to camps under al-Qaeda-linked militants since they lifted an aid ban.
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The UN makes its first aid delivery to drought victims in areas of Somalia controlled by al-Qaeda-linked militants since they lifted an aid ban.
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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 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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Years of conflict have left Somalia unable to cope with drought
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BBC Somali's editor Yusuf-Garaad Omar talks about the situation in the region.
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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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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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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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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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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 fleeing from the country's worsening drought are converging on the capital, Mogadishu, ruined by 20 years of civil war.
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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 refugee agency head Antonio Guterres tells the BBC he wants international agencies to go into Somalia to help drought victims.
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