We have started to collect the most important news related to Somalia in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
Somali intelligence officials release a video showing a passenger being given a laptop they say concealed a bomb that blew a hole into a passenger plane.
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More than 50,000 children in Somalia "face death" because of the ongoing drought there, the UN says.
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A blast that punched a large hole in the fuselage of a passenger plane at Somalia's Mogadishu airport on Tuesday was caused by a bomb, officials say.
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Somalia's military has retaken Merca from al-Shabab militants who entered the port city on Friday, residents there say.
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Islamist militant group al-Shabab retakes Somalia's port city of Merca according to residents, while the African Union forces insist they still have control of the town
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A passenger on the plane forced to land at Mogadishu airport because of a gaping hole in the fuselage is confirmed missing by the Somali airline.
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An investigation is launched in Somalia after a plane made an emergency landing with a gaping hole in its fuselage in the capital, Mogadishu.
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A passenger plane makes an emergency landing in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, with a gaping hole in its fuselage.
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Somalia tops the list of most corrupt countries in the world and no progress is seen in Nigeria and South Africa, says Transparency International.
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A survivor of Thursday's attack on a beach restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu describes how he and his friends went back to save a 10-year-old boy caught up in the violence.
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Kenyan forces in Somalia were warned of an impending al-Shabab attack 45 days before the group overran one of their bases, a Somali general says.
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Somali security forces retake control of a popular beachside restaurant in the capital, Mogadishu, after an attack by Islamist militants that left 20 killed.
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Al-Shabab militants overrun an African Union base in southern Somalia, saying it has killed dozens of Kenyan soldiers in fierce fighting
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The Somali boy creating battery-powered models from scrap
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Donald Trump again defends his call for a ban on Muslims entering the US after it is used for propaganda by al-Qaeda-linked Somali militants.
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Somali Islamist group al-Shabab releases a propaganda video which uses footage of the US presidential hopeful Donald Trump calling for a ban on Muslims.
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A child refugee in 1993 meets a Somali alone in Europe today
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Somalia's government bans the celebration of Christmas, warning that such Christian festivities could threaten the nation's Muslim faith.
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Three people have been killed and many others injured by a car bomb in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
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A Somali football match is broadcast live on television for the first time, with military club Horseed beating police team Heegan 2-1.
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A long-time US member of al-Shabab is arrested while trying to escape the group in Somalia, a local official tells the BBC.
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Pirates have attacked Thai and Iranian fishing trawlers off Somalia's coast, seizing the crew of one of them, maritime experts and residents say.
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Can Ethiopia’s railway bring peace to Somalia?
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At least 11 people are killed in crossfire when Somali security forces clash over who is in charge at a refugee camp, witnesses say.
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The US government offers a reward of $27m for information on the whereabouts of six leaders of Somalia's al-Shabab militant group.
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A Somali court orders the deportation of 27 Kenyans found to be in the country illegally, the first time in 25 years that such a ruling has been made.
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Al-Shabab Islamist militants kill at least 15 people, including a former senior general, in an attack on a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
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When fleeing to Somalia is better than staying in Yemen
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A pregnant Somali woman who says she was raped in Australia's refugee detention camp in Nauru is to be flown back to Australia.
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Australia insists it properly handled the case of a pregnant migrant who was deported back to Nauru without having an abortion she had requested.
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The nephew of Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has been shot dead in the capital, Mogadishu, in an attack by Islamist militant group al-Shabab.
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Members of one of Somaliland's best-known groups, the Horn Stars, are under arrest for allegedly waving Somalia's flag during a concert.
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Dozens of British troops are to be deployed to Somalia to help peacekeeping efforts to counter Islamist militants, David Cameron announces.
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A car bomb explodes at the gate of Somalia's presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu, killing at least six people, witnesses say.
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A United Arab Emirates (UAE) woman is suing the Kenyan authorities, saying she was kidnapped by police, taken to Somalia and Ethiopia, and tortured.
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The US reopens its mission to Somalia in Kenya, the latest step in restoring diplomatic ties since it withdrew from the country two decades ago.
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The bodies of 10 Ugandan soldiers killed in Somalia by militant Islamist group al-Shabab have been flown back home.
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Fighters from the al-Shabab militant Islamist group overrun an African Union military base in southern Somalia inflicting heavy casualties, witnesses tell the BBC.
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There are warnings about a new outbreak of piracy off Somalia's coast in spite of an international naval taskforce and UK backed efforts to build stability onshore in the Horn of Africa.
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Why piracy could return to Somalia
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Three Ugandan soldiers have been charged over the killing last month of civilians at a wedding in Somalia, the African Union says.
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Kenyan police name three men it believes to be the major recruiters of young Kenyans to Islamist terror groups, especially Somalia's al-Shabab.
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African Union forces allegedly killed six members of a family at a wedding in Somalia's port town of Merca last month, Human Rights Watch says.
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A British oil company paid hundreds of thousands of dollars which went to senior Somali civil servants, according to a UN report seen by the BBC.
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Peace activists in Kenya are calling for the reopening of the college where 148 people were killed by gunmen from the Somalia-based al-Shabab group.
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A German of Somali origin is suspected to have been the suicide bomber who struck a hotel in Somalia, an intelligence officer says.
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