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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.
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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Three reasons for the world to help end Somalia's conflict
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Kenya, United KingdomA British man accused of links to Somalia's Islamist extremists is to stand trial in May for allegedly plotting a bomb attack in Kenya.
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United KingdomKey leaders in Somalia agree on a plan to end two decades of political crisis, ahead of a meeting on the country's future to be held in London.
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Thousands of internally displaced people in Somalia are forced to flee again to avoid heavy fighting in an area just south of the capital, Mogadishu.
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Somali traffic police hit the streets of the capital Mogadishu after a 20 year absence.
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Islamist militant group al-Shabab, which controls much of Somalia, releases a joint video with al-Qaeda, formally announcing the two groups have merged.
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At least 15 people are killed and more than 20 injured when a car bomb planted by Islamist militants explodes near a cafe in Somalia's capital, officials say.
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Somalia starts a major operation to remove tens of thousands of people who have been squatting in government buildings in the capital.
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Famine conditions have ended in war-torn Somalia six months after they were first declared but the situation remains serious, the UN says.
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United KingdomWilliam Hague calls for renewed pressure against Islamist militants, as he becomes the first British foreign secretary to visit Somalia for 20 years.
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Denmark, 
United StatesDanish aid worker Poul Thisted and his American colleague Jessica Buchanan, held hostage in Somalia for three months, are on their way home.
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United KingdomThe UK has called for a stronger international approach to tackle the root causes of the problems in Somalia.
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United StatesTwo foreign aid workers kidnapped three months ago are freed unharmed in a US military raid into Somalia during the night.
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United StatesTwo foreign aid workers kidnapped in Somalia three months ago have been freed in a rare US military raid.
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EthiopiaIslamist militants launch a suicide truck bomb attack on an Ethiopian military base in central Somalia, witnesses say.
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African Union forces advance out of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, for the first time, seizing territory from al-Shabab Islamist militants.
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A suicide bomb attack in a refugee camp in the Somali capital Mogadishu kills six, as medical charity MSF closes of two of its centres there.
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Medical charity MSF closes two centres in the Somali capital Mogadishu after two of its doctors were killed last month, as another blast hits the city.
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Oil exploration begins in the arid north-east ast of war-torn Somalia - the first drilling in 21 years.
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Somalia is one of the riskiest countries in the world to be a journalist, with 23 media workers killed since 2007, according to Reporters Without Borders.
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Tens of thousands of Somalis will have died of starvation by the time the famine in the Horn of Africa ends, the UN tells the BBC.
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India, 
Indian OceanThe Royal Navy has captured 13 Somali pirates after boarding a dhow in the Indian Ocean, the Ministry of Defence says, as part of a Nato-led operation.
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Piracy seems to have led to "widespread economic development" in parts of Somalia, a study suggests, but coastal communities failed to benefit.
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