We have started to collect the most important news related to Somalia in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
The Somali poet in hiding after death threats from Islamist militia
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Malaysian navy commandos foil an attempted ship hijacking in the Gulf of Aden, rescuing 23 crew members and capturing seven Somali pirates.
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Somali MPs are re-drafting a bill to make piracy illegal after parliament refused to pass it, arguing pirates are heroes for keeping illegal fisherman away.
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A Somali man denies trying to murder Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard who was behind caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
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South Korea says the crew on one of its cargo ships, kidnapped by prates operating off the Somali coast, appear to be unharmed.
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Pirates operating off the Somali coast kidnap six crew from a Danish ship thought to have been transporting weapons in the Gulf of Aden.
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Somalia, a footballer for Brazilian club Botafogo, will be charged for falsely reporting he had been kidnapped when he was late for training, police say.
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Men and women are banned from shaking hands or chatting in public in a district of Somalia controlled by the Islamist group al-Shabab.
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Three Russians are among six air crew freed in a breakaway Somali territory, a day after being jailed for supplying arms, officials say.
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Six Russians are jailed in the breakaway northern Somali territory of Somaliland for supplying military equipment to a rival neighbouring region.
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Somali pirates free a German-owned chemical tanker seven months after it was seized, amid reports that a $5.5m ransom was paid.
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Police in the Netherlands have arrested 12 Somali men in Rotterdam on suspicion of involvement in terrorism.
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The UN Security Council agrees to increase the peacekeeping force in Somalia from 8,000 to 12,000 troops.
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The two Islamist groups fighting the weak UN-backed Somali government, al-Shabab and Hizbul Islam, are to merge, reports suggest.
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Somalia's women still in danger after fleeing their homes
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The human cost of the fighting in Somalia between the transitional government and the al-Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab militia, has produced one of the world's worst refugee problems.
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An embattled Somali radio station, Radio Shabelle, receives an international press freedom award at a ceremony in Paris.
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What lies behind the success of Nairobi's 'Little Mogadishu'?
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A Swedish court has sentenced two members of the Islamist al-Shabab group to four years in prison for planning suicide attacks in Somalia.
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Pirates operating off the Somali coast and further afield cannot be defeated by force alone, a top officer of the EU's anti-piracy task force Navfor says.
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A Kenyan court rules that Somalia's embassy in Nairobi was illegally sold in 1994 and should be restored to the transitional government.
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Kenya police arrest about 400 people in an apparent crackdown on illegal immigration in a predominantly Somali area of Nairobi.
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A Bangladeshi-flagged cargo ship hijacked by pirates off the coast of India appears to be heading towards the Somali coast, shipping officials say.
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The Somali prime minister says that without international support, his government has only "limited capabilities to fight al-Qaeda".
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A Somali-born US teenager arrested in the state of Oregon after allegedly plotting to bomb a Christmas tree lighting ceremony pleads not guilty.
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A US court sentences a Somali man to 30 years in jail for attacking a US warship off the coast of Somalia in April.
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Somalia's prime minister has called for greater international support to help combat jihadist fighters linked to al-Qaeda.
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US police say a fire at an Islamic centre in Oregon was arson, suggesting it was in response to a recent foiled car bomb attack by a Somali-born teenager.
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A Somali-born US teenager is arrested in the state of Oregon after allegedly plotting to bomb a Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
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Does the mayor of Mogadishu have the worst job in the world?
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Five young Somali men face life in prison after being found guilty of attacking a US Navy warship, the first US piracy conviction for nearly 200 years.
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African Union peacekeepers in Somalia apologise for the deaths of two civilians, killed after troops opened fire on a group of people near Mogadishu airport.
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Ten men from Somalia are in court in Hamburg, charged with capturing a container ship, in the first piracy trial in Germany in about 400 years.
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Details have emerged of a film in which yacht kidnap victims Paul and Rachel Chandler admit to being "resigned to dying" in Somalia.
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Paul and Rachel Chandler have landed at Heathrow after being held hostage by Somali pirates for more than a year.
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Paul and Rachel Chandler, who are to return home "very soon", hear that his father died while they were being held hostage by Somali pirates.
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A British couple who spent almost 400 days held hostage in Somalia have spoken of their "traumatic" time.
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A retired British couple are freed more than a year after being taken captive by Somali pirates who boarded their yacht off the Seychelles.
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A British couple held hostage by Somali pirates for more than a year have arrived in Kenya following their release on Sunday.
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Pirates hijack a Panamanian-flagged chemical tanker in waters closer to India than to Somalia.
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Five Somali men accused of attacking a US warship deny charges of piracy in what is billed as the first such trial in the US in more than 100 years.
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A South African yachtsman is rescued from Somali pirates by European naval forces, but two other South Africans are still being held captive.
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The US extends an air cargo ban to cover Somalia as well as Yemen and bans ink cartridges from passenger flights, in the wake of last month's bomb plot.
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Somali pirates are reported to have received a total of about $12.3m (£7.6m) in ransom money to release two ships.
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Three California men are charged with aiding the Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab, the US Justice Department says.
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Home Secretary Theresa May announces an extended ban on freight from Somalia as well as Yemen after the cargo plane bomb discoveries.
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