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• Somalia: Violence displaces nearly 40 000 Somalis in Mogadishu
  2008-10-06 08:58:19 - (SomaliNet) Violence in Somali capital Mogadishu in recent weeks has displaced some 37,000 people, swelling an internal refugee population of 1.1 million in Somalia, non-governmental organisations (NG
  
• Somalia: Floods displace hundreds in Southern Somalia
  2008-10-06 08:46:21 - (SomaliNet) A Somali government official said Monday that floods caused by Shabelle River forced hundreds of families out of their homes in the riverside villages around the southern Somali town of Ja
  
• Somalia: Thousands of Somalis protest AU forces in Somalia
  2008-10-06 08:36:16 - (SomaliNet) Thousands of Somalis on Sunday demonstrated against the presence of the 2,700-strong African Union peacekeeping Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). According to witnesses, the demonstrators
  
• Somalia: Somali pirates allowed Muslim hostages to fast, pray
  2008-10-06 08:20:57 - (SomaliNet) News reports said on Sunday that Somali pirates pointed guns habitually at Malaysian and Filipino tanker crew members held captive for weeks, but allowed Muslim hostages to fast and pray t
  
• Somalia: Somali Islamist insurgents demand weapons aboard hijacked Ukrainian ship
  2008-10-06 08:17:28 - (SomaliNet) Islamist insurgents had demanded to be given some of the weapons aboard a hijacked Ukrainian ship carrying 33 tanks - but the pirates holding it had refused, a local official said on Sunda
  
• Kenya: Gov’t pledges to work with IGAD to restore peace in Somalia
  2008-10-06 08:14:51 - (SomaliNet) The Kenyan Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka said the Kenyan government will work with the seven-member regional mediation body, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), to bri
  
• Somali Pirates stick to $20-million ransom demand
  2008-10-03 15:45:33 - (SomaliNet) After a seven-day standoff in the Indian Ocean, Somali pirates who hijacked a ship laden with tanks and heavy weapons stared down US warships and helicopters again Wednesday, making no mov
  
• Somalia: Pirates show no signs of surrendering hijacked ship
  2008-10-03 08:18:41 - (SomaliNet) As six U.S. warships circled the vessel Friday with clearance from the Somali government to attack it, and a Russian frigate headed toward the standoff, pirates holding a hijacked ship off
  
• Somalia: 80 civilians killed, over 100 others injured in violence in Mogadishu
  2008-10-03 07:02:47 - (SomaliNet) In the last week of September, at least 80 civilians were killed and more than 100 others injured in violence in the Somalian capital Mogadishu, the United Nations said on Friday. Spo
  
• Islamist warn aid agencies in Somalia to desist from “the anti-Islamic activities”
  2008-10-03 06:47:09 - (SomaliNet) The Islamist insurgent group fighting in Somalia, Alshabab, warned of reprisals some of the international aid organisations operating in Somalia if they do not desist from “the anti-Islami
  

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