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• Somalia: 4killed as Somali Islamist attack AU peacekeepers, gov’t troops
  2008-09-29 03:52:17 - (SomaliNet) Witnesses said on Monday that Somali Islamist insurgents attacked African Union peacekeepers and government forces in the capital Mogadishu, and at least four people were killed in the cla
  
• Somalia: Pirates who seized Ukraine ship reduce ransom demand to $20-mln from $35-mln
  2008-09-29 03:47:35 - (SomaliNet) The pirates, who captured a United States navy ship, the MV Faina and its 21 crew members on Friday en route to Mombasa port, have reduced their ransom demand to $20-million from $35-milli
  
• Somalia is high-risk area for Filipino seafarers- Noli VP
  2008-09-25 02:19:24 - (SomaliNet) The territorial waters of Somalia are high-risk area for Filipino seafarers due to the successive kidnaping incidents in the area, Vice President Noli de Castro declared yesterday. Fi
  
• Somalia: Over 30 killed in mortar attacks in capital Mogadishu
  2008-09-23 06:17:14 - (SomaliNet) In a second day of fighting that has killed at least 42 people, mortars slammed into Somali capital, Mogadishu market on Monday, witnesses said. Meanwhile, Somali Insurgents are battl
  
• Somalia: Deadly violence rocks Somalia
  2008-09-23 06:07:10 - (SomaliNet) In the worst fighting in months, Mortars slammed into a market in Somalia\'s capital, killing up to 30 people including children and wounding dozens, witnesses said. Experts say the vi
  
• Somalia is world’s most corrupt country- watchdog
  2008-09-23 06:02:55 - (SomaliNet) An international watchdog\'s annual report said Tuesday that Somalia remains rooted to the bottom of a global corruption index that also features Iraq and Afghanistan among the world\'s most
  
• Kenya-Somalia: Kenya heavily deploys troops at border with Somalia
  2008-09-22 01:35:58 - (SomaliNet) A border town official said Kenya has tightened security along the border with Somalia by deploying a large number of troops there. Hundreds of Kenyan security forces have been deploy
  
• Somalia: Somali pirates hijack another Greek ship off the lawless Somalia
  2008-09-22 01:31:42 - (SomaliNet) A maritime official said Somali pirates hijacked another Greek ship off the lawless Horn of Africa nation on Sunday in the latest of a wave of attacks. Head of the Kenya-based East Af
  
• Somalia: Group condemns Al-shabab fighters’ threat to close airport.
  2008-09-22 01:12:28 - (SomaliNet) The Alliance of Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS) based in Djibouti has slammed the Al-shabab fighters for threatening to close Somalia’s international airport. The ARS led by Sheikh She
  
• Somalia: Gunmen abduct German man in Northern Somalia
  2008-09-22 01:09:15 - (SomaliNet) In the latest kidnapping of Westerners in Somalia, gunmen seized a German man from Puntland semiautonomous on Saturday beating him as he drove with his vehicle and his wife that was travel
  

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