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Four countries face serious risk of famine: FSIN
Mar 31, 2017 21:00Global food crises notably deteriorated last year, a report says, adding that conditions will further worsen in 2017.
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Saudi attack on Somali refugee boat likely war crime: HRW
Mar 27, 2017 16:40Human Rights Watch (HRW) says a recent deadly aerial aggression on a boat carrying Somali refugees off the coast of Yemen, “apparently” carried out by the Saudi-led military coalition, likely amounts to “war crime.”
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Kenyan troops kill 31 ash-Shabab terrorists in Somalia's Jubbaland
Mar 27, 2017 16:40Kenyan troops deployed in neighboring Somalia have carried out a raid on militants of the ash-Shabab Takfiri group, killing at least 31 of them.
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Somali pirates take over Somali vessel to use as mothership: Police
Mar 24, 2017 19:12Pirates have seized control of a Somali fishing boat to use as a base from which to attack larger ships, police said on Friday, a week after Somali pirates hijacked their first commercial vessel since 2012.
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Somali pirates suspected of hijacking oil tanker
Mar 14, 2017 17:49Suspected pirates boarded a Sri Lankan-flagged tanker and forced its crew to change course towards the northeastern Somali coast, an expert on piracy in Somalia said Tuesday.
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Kenya forces kill about 60 ash-Shabab terrorists in Somalia
Mar 02, 2017 19:46Kenyan troops have killed nearly 60 suspected members of the al-Qaeda-linked ash-Shabab terrorist group during a fierce fighting in southern Somalia, a Kenya’s military spokesman says.
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Somali president Farmajo appoints Khayre as new prime minister
Feb 23, 2017 20:16Somalia’s new president has picked Hassan Ali Khayre, a former aid worker and oil executive, to serve as the prime minister in the war-torn country.
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Car bomb blast kills 39, wounds about 50 in Somali capital
Feb 19, 2017 18:42At least 38 people have lost their lives and about 50 others have been wounded in a car bomb explosion in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, officials and witnesses say.
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Famine ‘threatens hundreds of thousands’ in Somalia
Feb 16, 2017 13:35The United Nations (UN)’s former special representative for Somalia has warned of the looming threat of famine in the Horn of Africa country, calling for immediate action to stop a potential humanitarian disaster.
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Somalia ‘plans to file legal complaint against UAE’ over Somaliland base
Feb 15, 2017 17:46Somalia’s internationally-backed government is reportedly planning to file a legal case against the rulers of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for setting up a military base in the unrecognized breakaway republic of Somaliland.