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Somalia, the product of the merger in 1960 between a former British protectorate and an Italian colony, has had a violent and unstable history. In 1970 President Mohamed Siad Barre proclaimed a socialist state and started close relations with the Soviet Union. Frequent conflicts with neighbours followed. When the regime was overthrown in 1991, Barre went into hiding and the country was carved up by heavily armed warlords. The long-suffering population, which numbers more than 10 million, was plunged into further misery when famine ravaged the country. In 1992 US Marines arrived ahead of UN peacekeepers in an attempt to restore order, but the "humanitarian intervention" ended in disaster when two US Black Hawk helicopters were shot down. As warlords celebrated the death of 19 American soldiers the US beat a hasty retreat. Somalian clan elders and other senior figures appointed Abdulkassim Salat Hassan president at a conference in 2000, but little progress was made until 2004, when a new parliament was created with Abdullahi Yusuf installed as president. The fledgling regime soon stuttered and fighting between the factions resumed. Guardian

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Somalia:
Understanding how some Somali politicians tend to exploit America's "war on terror" may shed light on one or more dimensions of Somalia's humanitarian ...

Understanding how some Somali politicians tend to exploit America's "war on terror" may shed light on one or more dimensions of Somalia's humanitarian ...

Islamist rebels have led a bloody anti-Ethiopia insurgency since January 2007, after Ethiopian troops invaded Mogadishu and ousted the Somali capital's ...

As routine, there was no official word from the Ethiopian military regarding attacks in Somalia. Islamist rebels have led a bloody anti-Ethiopia insurgency ...

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The actual place where the battle took place was KM4 intersection where AMISOM peacekeeping forces particularly the Ugandan people's defense force is ...
The beer brewer was severely wounded in the blast and his car sustained great damage, and immediately after the incident some Somali government force ...
Following the incident, the convoy is proceeding to various destinations in central Somalia. Fierce fighting was reported on the morning of 3 September ...
... region which is also the third largest town in Somalia after Mogadishu and Hargeysa which is now the capital of the self-styled state of Somaliland. ...

THE kidnappers of an Australian photographer and Canadian and Somali journalists in Somalia are demanding a $US2.5 million ($3.08 million) ransom, ...
Kismayo, Somalia Sep 7 (Garowe Online) - A key figure in Somalia's Islamic Courts movement has rejected an announcement made on Friday appointing an ...
APA-Nairobi(Kenya) President Mwai Kibaki has appealed to the international community to fufil its pledge to reconstruct Somalia in spite of moves by the ...
Mogadishu, Somalia Sep 7 (Garowe Online) - A group of soldiers formerly loyal to the allied governments of Somalia and Ethiopia have reportedly switched ...
Mogadishu, Somalia Sep 7 (Garowe Online) - Somali insurgents attacked local police, Ethiopian troops and African Union peacekeepers Saturday night in the ...
US counterterrorism policies have compromised international agenda in Somalia/ AP September 8, 2008: US counter-terrorism policies and support for the ...
In fact the rain was so heavy that it rained cats and dogs, and has hampered the movements of people and public service vehicles. ...
This issue coincides with time when there are frequent conformations, organized killings, explosions, in the capital and several other towns in Somalia. ...
Kismayo, Somalia Sep 6 (Garowe Online) - Somalia's Islamist militia rulers in the southern port of Kismayo have appointed a district administration for the ...
Al-Shabab was the military wing of the Islamic Courts Union which was in control of south and central Somalia, but eventually ousted from their rule by the ...
Mogadishu, Somalia Sep 6 (Garowe Online) - Somalia's interim President and Prime Minister are 'still feuding' after Ethiopian government officials helped ...
The number of warlords at that time was very few and the scope was purely political- to gain political power through gun point and perhaps misgovern Somalia ...
US counter-terrorism aid to the Ethiopian-backed Transitional Federal government (TFG) in Somalia has created a humanitarian disaster, a reports says. ...
came after they were on Friday afternoon ambushed by the armed Islamist movement of Islamic Courts Union in a location which is 1and half KM from Bardale ...
Bardale lies 300 kilometers southwest of Mogadishu, and 60 kilometers west of Baidoa, the seat of Somalia's Transitional Federal Parliament. ...
"After my daughters have come out from the Koranic school nad coming towards home one of the slippers of one of the girls unfortunately broke, and the other ...
This month of Ramadan the Muslims will merely adhere in the worshipping of Allah their creator and intensify their closeness to God, and in this case God is ...
The Islamists were in control of south and central Somalia for 6 months before they were ousted by the Ethiopian troops in late 2006.
What will that mean for the Horn of Africa and by extension for Somalia? Will a new US administration embark on reviewing America's Horn of Africa policy ...
by Jim Lobe / September 7th 2008 US counter-terrorism policies and support for the Ethiopian-backed Transitional Federal government (TFG) in Somalia have ...
Sitta made the remarks in Bagamoyo on Monday when opening a three-day international conference on women, peace and security in Somalia. ...
It can be recalled that Ethiopian peacekeepers were despatched to Somalia in December 2006 to support the Transitional government which is still fighting to ...
We have been tracking the situation in Somalia here since American military and security forces and their Ethiopian proxies invaded the country in December ...
Baidoa, Somalia Sep 5 (Garowe Online) - At least five people were killed in south-central Somalia on Friday after Islamist Insurgents targeted an Ethiopian ...
This group of 60 is being given a rare public forum to share their thoughts on the role of women in the peace process of war-ravaged Somalia, ...
By Joe DeCapua A new report warns Somalia has descended into terrible levels of armed conflict, humanitarian crisis, assassinations and political meltdown. ...
More then 14-million people in Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Kenya, Uganda and Djibouti are critically affected, and the numbers are "on an alarming upward ...
Following the incident, the convoy is proceeding to various destinations in central Somalia. Fierce fighting was reported on the morning of 3 September ...
The top United Nations envoy to Somalia today said that he is extremely alarmed by the rise in piracy off the Horn of Africa nation's coast and deplored the ...
New York - The United Nations Security Council on Thursday turned down a request by Somalia for a UN force in the troubled land, saying such a move would ...
5 (Xinhua) -- Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, UN envoy for Somalia, on Friday expressed "extreme alarm" at the increase in piracy against ships both in Somali waters ...
SOMALI pirates yesterday hijacked an Egyptian vessel, taking the total number number being held in the waters of the failed state to around 10, ...
The United Nations Security Council has rejected a request from Somalia's interim government to send a UN peacekeeping force, saying conditions must first ...
An outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) in and around Hiran region, central Somalia, has killed at least 7 children in the past three days, ...
Without intervention, more will fall victims to the sea mafia of Somalia. The French yacht caught by pirates in the self declared Bantustan of "Puntland ...
The 15-member body recalled UN chief Ban Ki-Moon's contingency planning for a UN integrated peacekeeping mission in Somalia, "which recommends that plans ...

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