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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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World
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Africa
11/27/2022 10:14:02 PM
Somali security forces were attempting to flush out armed assailants from a hotel in the Somali capital, a police spokesman said Sunday, after the extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack. There has been no immediate word of any casualties.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/22/2022 7:47:43 PM
In conflict-ravaged nations like Yemen and Somalia, devastating floods and droughts kill hundreds of people and uproot tens of thousands from their homes.
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World
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Region
11/6/2022 1:36:59 PM
Five people were killed in a suicide bombing targeting a military training camp in Somalia, army officials told AFP Sunday, in an attack claimed by Al-Shabaab jihadists one week after twin blasts left 116 dead.
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World
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War in Ukraine
11/4/2022 1:04:38 PM
Russia and Turkey have reached an agreement to deliver grain free of charge to countries in need including Djibouti, Somalia and Sudan, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.
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World
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Africa
11/1/2022 10:44:37 PM
The Treasury Department announced sanctions Tuesday against a weapons trafficking network affiliated with the Islamic State group in Somalia and the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group, which are accused of carrying out deadly terrorist acts on civilians including car bombings.
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World
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Africa
10/31/2022 5:01:40 PM
The death toll from twin car bombings in Somalia's capital has reached 120 and could rise further because some people are still missing, the country's health minister said Monday.
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World
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Africa
10/30/2022 11:11:17 AM
The number of people killed in twin car bombings in the Somali capital Mogadishu, claimed by Al-Shabaab Islamists, has risen to 100, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Sunday.
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World
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Africa
10/29/2022 7:31:31 PM
At least nine people, including children, died on Saturday in twin car bomb attacks targeting Somalia's education ministry in the capital Mogadishu, security officers and witnesses said.
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World
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Region
10/29/2022 3:39:46 PM
Two huge car bombings rocked Somalia's education ministry in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday causing casualties and shattering windows of nearby buildings, police and witnesses said.
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World
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Africa
10/26/2022 5:16:10 PM
The United Nations says close to 1 million drought-affected people in Somalia are in areas under the control or influence of the al-Shabab extremist group, and it appealed to the fighters to allow humanitarian access as famine threatens the country.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/25/2022 1:57:09 PM
Egypt has condemned a terrorist attack that targetted a hotel in the Somali port city of Kismayo, about 500 kilometres southwest of the capital of Mogadishu, that killed nine people and wounded 47 others on Sunday.
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World
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Africa
10/23/2022 6:52:09 PM
At least four people have been killed in an attack on a hotel in Kismayo, southern Somalia, claimed by Al-Shabaab Islamists, police and a witness said on Sunday.
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World
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Africa
10/23/2022 5:19:26 PM
Gunmen stormed a hotel in the centre of the Somali port city of Kismayo Sunday, shortly after an explosives-packed car exploded at the hotel's gates, police said.
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World
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Africa
10/12/2022 7:54:44 PM
The Somali National Army (SNA) said Wednesday its forces killed over 50 al-Shabab militants in a foiled terror attack on its base at a village in Hiran region of central Somalia.
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World
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Africa
10/11/2022 9:48:51 PM
In response to external, and at times internal, pressure, Al-Shabaab’s insurgency in Somalia has evolved over time. So have its motivations and goals.
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