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We have started to collect the most important news related to Somalia in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
The head of Somalia's Olympic committee and its football chief are among eight people killed in a bomb attack on a high-profile event in Mogadishu.
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The heads of Somalia's Olympic committee and football association are among eight people killed by a bomb blast in Mogadishu's newly reopened national theatre.
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Images as Mogadishu's fish market returns to life
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MaldivesMaldives officials say Somali pirates have hijacked a cargo ship and 23 crew - the first such seizure in the island chain's waters.
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EthiopiaEthiopian forces and pro-Somali government troops capture a major base from al-Shabab militants, residents say.
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The European Union expands its mission against Somali pirates, by allowing military forces to attack land targets as well as those at sea.
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United Arab EmiratesSomali ex-warlord Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed - the first president of the country's interim government - dies aged 77 in the United Arab Emirates.
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Kenya, 
United KingdomA woman kidnapped from a remote beach resort in Kenya and held hostage in Somalia for more than six months is preparing to return home to Britain.
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Kenya, United KingdomThe family of a British hostage pay a ransom to secure her release in Somalia, six months after she was captured and her husband killed in Kenya.
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The Somali National Theatre reopens in Mogadishu more than two decades after it was closed amid civil war.
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A Somali family of four are among six people killed as militants fire mortars on a refugee camp near the presidential palace in Mogadishu, officials say.
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Somali government troops, backed by African Union forces, have for the first time seized an area outside the capital Mogadishu from the Islamist group al-Shabab.
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UgandaWounded Ugandan soldier tells of Somalia mission
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At least five people are killed in a suicide bomb attack by the gates of the presidential palace in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, officials say.
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As Somali piracy grows as a threat for vessels sailing in the Gulf of Aden, an increasing number of ships are using armed security teams to protect themselves.
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On board an oil tanker in waters roamed by pirates
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The BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner reports from a tanker in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia, following a recent increase in pirate attacks there.
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EthiopiaIslamist militants of al-Shabab ambush Ethiopian troops in central Somalia, resulting in dozens of casualties, reports say.
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Over the past 20 years, poverty, poor governance and a flood of weapons into Somalia have combined to make piracy a growing problem for ships sailing the Gulf of Aden.
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TurkeyTurkish Airlines begins a twice-weekly service to Somalia's capital, the first major carrier from outside the East Africa to land in Mogadishu in more than 20 years.
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Gunmen in Somalia shoot dead a journalist in the north-central town of Galkayo - the third such killing this year.
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EthiopiaBBC visits Somali town seized from Islamists by Ethiopian troops
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A major base of Somalia's al-Shabab militants is captured on the outskirts of the capital in an offensive by government troops backed by African Union forces.
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Islamist militants make a surprise attack on a south-western town used by government-backed Somali troops as a base to launch assaults.
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The head of a private Somali radio station shut down by Islamist militants is killed outside his home, an eyewitness tells the BBC.
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DenmarkThe Danish Navy says two hostages have been killed as a Danish warship confronted a pirate vessel off the coast of Somalia.
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Traffic policemen return to the streets of Mogadishu
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An air strike in al-Shabab-held southern Somalia kills four people, including three foreigners, eyewitnesses tell the BBC.
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United KingdomHas the London conference helped reshape failed state?
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United KingdomWorld leaders pledge support for political and military measures to fight Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab, after a conference in London.
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United KingdomSomalia's President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has called on the international community to help secure his war-torn nation's future, at a major conference in London.
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Eritrea, 
Italy, 
LibyaThe European Court of Human Rights says Italy violated the rights of Eritrean and Somali migrants by sending them back to Libya.
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A mother sells samosas to support 10 children
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EthiopiaEthiopian and Somali troops have taken a strategic stronghold of Islamist militants in south-western Somalia.
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EthiopiaEthiopian and Somali troops capture Baidoa, a strategic stronghold of al-Shabab Islamist militants, as the UN approves extra African Union troops for Somalia.
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EthiopiaEthiopian and Somali troops have taken a strategic stronghold of Islamist militants in south-western Somalia.
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Teacher tells of harsh life under Somali Islamist rule
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The UN Security Council is expected to vote to increase the African Union's peacekeeping force in Somalia, as Ethiopian forces advance on a key city held by al-Shabab militants.
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United KingdomPrime Minister David Cameron tells the BBC what he hopes will be achieved at the international conference on Somalia in London.
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BBC's Andrew Harding reports from Somalia's front line
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Piracy off the Somali coast is estimated to be costing the shipping industry nearly $7bn (�4.4bn).
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An unprecedented number of children - some as young as 10 - has been forced to join the ranks of Somali's Islamist militants, Human Rights Watch says.
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