The United Nations refugee agency today expressed its deep concern for the safety of more than 8,000 people trapped in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, by clashes which have uprooted more than 100,000 people since the start of the year.
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Somalia: Fighting Traps 8,000 in Mogadishu
A Hizbul Islam official called Bare Ali Bare was on Tuesday gunned down by unknown assailants in Mogadishu ’s Bakara Market, a stronghold for Somali rebel fighters.
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Somalia: Hizbul Islam Official Killed in Bakara Market
At least 3 people have been killed after heavy fighting between the transitional government troops backing by AMISOM and the Islamist forces in parts of the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Friday.
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Somalia: Fighting Restarts in Mogadishu
At least four government soldiers have been killed and five others wounded in Mogadishu after land mine blast targeted to Somali government military vehicle traveling around Mana-bolyo intersection in north of the capital, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Friday.
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Somalia: Land Mine Blast Kills 4 Soldiers, Wounds 5 Others
“Farming has now become completely different and difficult,” laments Dickson Siangoma.
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African Union peacekeeping troops in Mogadishu will continue to play a defensive role despite increasingly daring attacks by insurgents.
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Somalia: Peacekeepers Remain on Defensive
At least five people are killed and 15 others injured on Friday in fresh clashes that rocked parts of Somalia’s restive capital Mogadishu, medics and witnesses said.
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Somalia: 5 Killed in Mogadishu Clashes, Al Shabaab Declares Jihad
Despite fighting that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people in Mogadishu, health workers have fanned out across the war-torn capital of Somalia in a three-month United Nations-backed campaign that has immunized nearly 300,000 women of child-bearing age and 288,000 children.
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Somalia: Health Campaign Reaches 600,000 Women and Children
Jabulile Dlamini* is sweet sixteen and has never been kissed.
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Swaziland: Dating in a Time of HIV
At least two people have been killed and about 10 others have been wounded in heavy shelling targeted at neighborhoods in the north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Sunday.
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Somalia: Heavy Shelling Kills 2, Injuries 10 Others in Mogadishu