We have started to collect the most important news related to Somalia in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
Camps of people fleeing East Africa's worsening drought start forming inside Somalia, says medical aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres.
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Somali refugees engulf Ethiopia town
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The Somali mothers so desperate they let their children die
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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'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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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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Malnutrition among children fleeing Somalia's drought could lead to a "tragedy of unimaginable proportions", the UN refugee head says.
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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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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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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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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 caught bringing $3m (£2m) in cash illegally into Somalia to pay a ransom to pirates are pardoned by the president.
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Six Indian sailors, recently freed by Somali pirates after nearly 11 months in captivity, return home to joyous celebrations.
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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 Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed resigns 'in the interests of the people', following a UN-backed deal to oust him.
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Somalia jails six foreigners for bringing $3m (£2m) in cash illegally into the country, allegedly to pay ransoms to pirates.
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The daily fight for life amid Somalia's gun battles
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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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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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Somalia's Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo refuses to resign, defying a UN-backed deal to oust him.
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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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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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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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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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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's President Museveni calls for Somalia's transitional government to be given more time to consolidate gains against Islamist militants.
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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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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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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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Is it possible to guard your yacht from Somali pirates?
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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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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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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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The UN World Food Programme says it has been forced to cut food rations to Somalis in need of aid, due to a funding shortfall.
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Three Somali men plead guilty in a US court to piracy charges for their role in a hijacking that ended in the deaths of four Americans.
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Almost one third of Somalia's population are living in crisis, because of intensifying drought, according to a coalition of aid agencies.
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Piracy off the Somali coast costs the international community up to $8.3bn (£5.1bn) a year, and that could nearly double by 2015, a new study says.
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A court in Spain sentences two Somali pirates to 439 years in prison each for their involvement in the hijacking of a fishing boat more than a year ago.
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Children in Somalia are suffering some of the highest malnutrition rates in the world, says the United Nations, following years of drought.
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A US grand jury indicts a Somali man accused of negotiating ransom on behalf of a band of pirates who captured a Danish cargo vessel.
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Libya's former foreign minister warns against civil war taking hold in Libya, in his first public comments since his defection.
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UN agencies involved in Somalia, but based in Kenya for safety reasons, are ordered to move to Mogadishu within three months by the interim government.
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The Libyan government says it is open to political reform but Muammar Gaddafi must stay in power to avoid a deadly power vacuum.
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Dutch marines kill two suspected Somali pirates and captured 16 others during an operation to free a hijacked Iranian fishing boat, officials say.
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A judge in the US state of Virginia rules that a former Somali prime minister can be questioned under oath over allegations of abuses and war crimes.
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Images of a clinic treating those caught up in Somalia conflict
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