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23/05/2012 - Report: Somalia

AU troops launch anti-Shebab offensive in refugee region

African forces backing Somali government troops say they have launched a carefully planned operation to bring security and stability to the people of the Afgoye corridor, a rural area where ...

22/05/2012 - France - Somalia

Six Somali pirates on trial in Paris over capture of Le Ponant crew

The trial has opened in Paris of six Somalis charged with taking the 30 crew of luxury sailing ship Le Ponant hostage in the pirate-infested waters of the Gulf of Aden in 2008.

18/05/2012 - Report: Somalia

17 civilians sentenced to death in Somaliland

In Somalia, a military tribunal has convicted and sentenced 17 civilians to death by firing squad, over the killing of three policemen.

02/05/2012 - Report: Somalia

Suicide bomber kills eight in Somalia

At least eight people, including two Somali MPs, were killed and more than 11 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the central town of Dhusamareb on Tuesday.

18/04/2012 - Report: Somalia

Suicide blast kills two soldiers in southern Somalia

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a bar in front of the UN building in southern Somali town of Baidoa on Tuesday.

Maritime security against pirates
18/04/2012 - African news explained

Maritime security against pirates

In Somalia two civilians were wounded yesterday when war planes fired several missiles at a suspected Somali pirate base in Gumah in the country's north.

05/04/2012

African press review 5 April 2012

Kenya awaits more refugees as hostilities escalate in Sudan. And there's renewed violence in Mogadishu. Who's to blame for crime in the Nigerian diaspora? Whp preaches the gospel of ...

05/04/2012 - Report: Somalia

At least eight killed in Mogadishu theatre attack

An attack at the National Theatre in Mogadishu has left several civilians dead and injured, but failed to kill any Somali government ministers.

Somali pirates seize Iranian ship
28/03/2012 - African news explained

Somali pirates seize Iranian ship

Somali pirates have seized an Iranian-owned cargo ship and its 23 crew off the Maldives Islands. The vessel identified as MV Eglantine was seized off the island of Hoarafush.

22/03/2012 - Report: Somalia

British woman hostage released by Somali pirates

Somali pirates freed a British hostage Wednesday, nearly seven months after she was taken captive in a raid at a Kenyan beach resort in which her husband was killed.

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