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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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... much as 30 percent last year and pirates continue to hinder access to some of the world's richest Yellowfin tuna waters, which lie off lawless Somalia. ...
In the mid-1990s, the two most ruined countries in the world were Somalia and Rwanda. ...
But unlike Somalia, there is no civil war here, no children walking around with guns, no warlords and none of the grinding poverty. ...

They claim that assistance included helping co-conspirators travel from Minneapolis to Somalia. The indictment says the purpose was to help terrorists carry ...
pirates off the coast of Somalia tried again this week to attack the Maersk Alabama, the ship they seized in April in a case that highlighted the dangers of ...
"This commitment by Somalia's Transitional Federal Government comes at a crucial time, when no child in central south Somalia has had the experience of ...
Nicolas Cage met with Somalia prisoners in order to learn about their circumstances and meet with UN councils. Nicolas Cage traveled to Kenya to meet with ...
The indictment suggests that as part of the conspiracy, Mohamed _ also known as Brother Omer or Galeyr _ helped some of the men travel to Somalia. ...
The attacks have moved deeper into the Indian Ocean and along the African coast from Somalia toward the Mozambique Channel, away from the well-policed gulf ...
The fighting in Somalia has killed nearly 19000 civilians since the start of 2007 and driven 1.5 million from their homes. Among the measures called for in ...
AP Photo A US-flagged container ship which was hijacked by Somali pirates seven months ago has been attacked again off the coast of Somalia. ...
The war ended after the ouster of [former President] Barre [in 1991] and the capture of the northwestern regions of Somalia by the SNM. ...
A maritime expert told Reuters last week he believed the ship is one of the regular weapon carriers to Somalia which is under a UN arms embargo. ...
In the corrupt country of Somalia on Tuesday a 29-year-old woman who a judge determined had an illicit affair was stoned to death. ...
Nairobi, 19 November 2009 (IRIN) - Residents of a coastal town in Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland saved the crew of a fishing boat ...
The task force was the third group of warships from the Russian Pacific Fleet engaged in the anti-piracy mission off Somalia. The previous two task forces ...
Two Journalists have been shot at and wounded in the last two days in Somalia. On Tuesday, Voice of America reporter Mohammed Yasin Isak was shot in the ...
An unnamed woman was stoned to death at Eel-boon in Wajid district, 330 kilometres southwest of Mogadishu, on Wednesday. She was sentenced by an Islamic ...
Somali woman stoned to death12:50Islamist hardliners in Somalia have stoned a Somali woman to death for adultery on Tuesday. Egypt: Two Christians condemned ...
Yesterday, the same day that Maersk Alabama repelled a pirate attack, the UN Security Council was again debating piracy and Somalia. ...
Somalia is set to get 100 EU forces to help train the fledgling UN-backed government counter Insurgents. On Tuesday, Islamist militants stoned a woman to ...
A 20-year-old woman divorcee accused of committing adultery in Somalia has been stoned to death by Islamists in front of a crowd of about 200 people. ...
Located along the route of a crude-oil pipeline connecting the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean and racked by civil war, Somalia's coastline has become infamous ...
... requested not to be named told Newstime Africa. Puntland, which is home to one-third of Somalia's population, was declared a semi-autonomous region in 1998.
The Islamic clerics of Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a have ordered the people in Abudwaq district in central Somalia not to watch films, witnesses told Shabelle radio ...
Somalia is the most corrupt country in the world, followed closely by Afghanistan and Myanmar, according to researchers at the "global civil ...
A woman has been stoned to death in Somalia for committing adultery in breach of Islamic law. Judge Sheikh Ibrahim Abdirahman said the married woman (29) ...
navies are expensive, and sending warships to Somalia is a hugely inefficient way to fight pirates, considering that the number of successful attacks off ...
The attack reflected the increasing boldness of pirates roaming far from their bases in Somalia to seize vessels and sailors to hold for ransom. ...
Somalia's ambassador to the United Nations, Elmi Ahmed Duale, says Jamal was appointed about a week ago to the position of first secretary. ...
In places like Afghanistan, Somalia and the Darfur region of Sudan, relief workers say they are being actively targeted with greater frequency by a murky ...
The rebel group has instituted a strict Muslim state in parts of Somalia. TORONTO -- Several Somali-Canadian families are asking what happened to their sons ...
Courtesy of Andrew I see that Afghanistan just beat out Somalia as the most corrupt country in the world (by the way, this is two points worse than last ...
The spokesman for Somalia's militant al-Shabab group in Kismayo says members of the Ethiopia-based rebel group, Ogaden National Liberation ...
Afghanistan, Iraq, Burma were among the lowest-ranked, with conflict-ridden Somalia at the bottom for the second year running. New Zealand was the least ...
Authorities in Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland said they have rescued nine foreigners held hostage by Somali pirates in the town of Eyl. ...
Security forces in Somalia's northern semi-autonomous region of Puntland say three people have been arrested in connection with the fatal ...
A news release from the European Union Naval Force on Somalia said the vessel, MV Filitsa, was attacked in the south Somali Basin of the Indian Ocean, ...
A man who says he is a Somali pirate on board a cargo vessel seized off the coast of Somalia has told VOA that the ship was not carrying ...


 


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