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World
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Africa
3/26/2023 10:02:22 PM
Somalia said more than 3,000 al-Shabab militants have been killed and 3,700 more sustained injuries since the government started a military operation against the terror group six months ago.
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World
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Region
3/20/2023 1:13:18 PM
A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid the longest drought on record in Somalia last year and half of them likely were children.
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World
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Africa
3/13/2023 9:53:45 PM
Countries in the Horn of Africa have been hit by a multiyear drought. Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda are expected to continue getting below-normal rainfall in 2023. Excluding Uganda, 36.4 million people are affected and 21.7 million are in need of food assistance.
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World
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Africa
3/7/2023 11:03:05 PM
Militant Islamist violence in Africa set new records for violent events and fatalities this past year. This continues a relentless decade-long upward trend. To give a sense of the accelerating pace of this threat, both violent events and fatalities have almost doubled since 2019.
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World
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Africa
3/2/2023 6:17:33 PM
A total of 210 people lost their lives over 24 days of clashes between security forces and clan members in a town in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland, a government official said Thursday.
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World
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Africa
3/1/2023 7:14:44 PM
The United States is increasing its military assistance to Somalia as the country sees success in battling what the U.S. calls “the largest and most deadly al-Qaida network in the world.”
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World
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Africa
2/1/2023 6:06:38 PM
The leaders of Somalia and neighbouring countries vowed at a summit on Wednesday to "make the final push" against Al-Shabaab as a wide-ranging offensive against the militants gathers pace.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
1/31/2023 9:58:26 PM
Ahmed Askar keeps up with the latest in the beleaguered country
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World
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Africa
1/29/2023 10:04:33 PM
The first US Cabinet member to visit Somalia since 2015 urged the world’s distracted donors Sunday to give immediate help to a country facing deadly famine, which she calls “the ultimate failure of the international community.”
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World
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Africa
1/20/2023 3:52:22 PM
An Al-Shabaab attack killed seven soldiers Friday at a military camp in a Somali town retaken by the army this week in a major offensive against the jihadist group, the government said.
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World
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Africa
1/17/2023 2:41:13 PM
An attack by the al-Shabab extremist group on a military facility north of Somalia's capital on Tuesday killed five soldiers, officials said. Somali troops repelled the assault, killing 21 al-Shabab fighters.
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World
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Africa
1/16/2023 8:22:24 PM
Somalia's armed forces on Monday captured a strategic coastal town that Al-Shabaab jihadists had held for more than a decade, officials said.
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World
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Africa
1/15/2023 12:01:42 PM
Police said Sunday that eight people were killed in a roadside bombing claimed by Al-Shabaab in central Somalia where a major offensive is underway to retake territory from the jihadists.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/9/2023 10:53:03 PM
Egypt and Somalia signed on Monday a number of MoUs in various fields of cooperation, including higher education, media and cultural and religious cooperation.
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World
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Region
1/7/2023 7:07:14 PM
Director of the Horn of Africa and Sudan Department of the Arab League Zayd Saban said the AL has received an official memorandum from the Iraqi government notifying it that it will cancel part of Somalia’s debts to Iraq.
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World
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Africa
1/7/2023 3:50:26 PM
Somalia's government claimed Saturday that the al-Shabab extremist group has for the first time asked to open negotiations, amid a military offensive the government has described as ``total war.''
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World
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Africa
1/5/2023 7:23:12 PM
The United States on Thursday offered a $10 million reward to find a leader of Somalia's Al-Shabaab militants over a 2020 attack on an air base in Kenya that killed three Americans.
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World
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Africa
1/4/2023 10:39:12 AM
At least nine people were killed and several others wounded in simultaneous car bomb attacks in a town in central Somalia on Wednesday, security officials and witnesses said.
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World
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Africa
12/31/2022 6:58:04 PM
Several people have been killed and others injured in anti-government protests in the southeast of the breakaway region of Somaliland, the head of an opposition party and local officials said Saturday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
12/15/2022 8:29:46 PM
Patriot missile systems have long been a hot ticket item for the U.S. and allies in contested areas of the world as a coveted shield against incoming missiles. In Europe, the Middle East, and the Pacific, they guard against potential strikes from Iran, Somalia, and North Korea.
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