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Somali athletes keep training despite bombing

Last updated Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 9:44am

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somalia's Olympic athletes are training for the London Games, a day after the national Olympic committee president and another top sports official were killed in a bomb blast.

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This undated photo taken at an unknown location and released by the Danish Refugee Council on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 shows American Jessica Buchanan from the Danish Refugee Council's de-mining unit. U.S. military forces helicoptered into Somalia in a nighttime raid Wednesday and freed two hostages, American Jessica Buchanan, 32, and Dane Poul Hagen Thisted, 60, while killing nine pirates, officials and a pirate source said. (AP Photo/Danish Refugee Council)

US military raid in Somalia frees 2 from kidnappers

Abdi Guled, Katharine Houreld, Kimberly Dozier The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 10:28am

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The same U.S. Navy SEAL unit that killed Osama bin Laden parachuted into Somalia under cover of darkness early Wednesday and crept up to an outdoor camp where an American woman and Danish man were being held hostage. Soon, nine kidnappers were dead and both hostages were freed.

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Deaths in Somalia underscore risks for Doctors Without Borders

Jason Straziuso The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 30, 2011 - 4:27pm

NAIROBI, Kenya -- A second foreigner working with Doctors Without Borders died of his wounds in an attack in Somalia that also killed the group's country director, though the aid organization declared Friday that despite the risks it would still provide medical care in one of the world's most dangerous countries.

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(SAYYID AZIM/The Associated Press) In this Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010 file photo, Kenya Army soldiers rehearse a military parade at Uhuru Park, in Nairobi, Kenya. Kenyan military forces moved into southern Somalia on Sunday, an official and residents said, a day after top Kenyan defence officials said the country has the right to defend itself after a rash of militant kidnappings of Europeans inside Kenya.

Somali militants threaten suicide attacks in Kenya

Abdi Guled, Katharine Houreld The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 17, 2011 - 8:43am

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s most dangerous militant group threatened Kenya with suicide attacks on Monday, saying Nairobi’s skyscrapers would be destroyed and its tourism industry ruined in an ominous warning one day after Kenyan troops poured into Somalia.

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Somali woman Kaltum Mohamed holds one of her children in Lower Shabelle Somalia on July 20, 2011 in this image taken from TV. Kaltum Mohamed has lost 4 of her children to famine. Just three weeks ago, she was the mother of five young children. But famine has come to Somalia and claimed the lives of four of them. Only a daughter remains now. (AP Photo/APTN)

29,000 Somali children starve to death

Jason Straziuso The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 12:19pm

NAIROBI, Kenya -- The drought and famine in Somalia have killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5, according to U.S. estimates, the first time such a precise death toll has been released related to the Horn of Africa crisis.

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53 peacekeepers killed in Somalia offensive

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 4, 2011 - 10:48am

NAIROBI, Kenya -- More than 50 African Union peacekeepers have died in fighting in Somalia since a major offensive against Islamist militants began two weeks ago, officials told The Associated Press on Friday.

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Somali Islamists ban men, women from shaking hands

The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, January 8, 2011 - 9:48am

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somalis say Islamist insurgents have banned unrelated men and women from shaking hands, speaking or walking together.

Residents of the southern Somali town of Jowhar said Saturday that the al-Shabab insurgents threatened to whip, imprison or execute anyone found breaking the recent edicts.

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