Europa Newswire Photo by: Luiz Rampelotto New York, 3 December 2009 - The Secretary-General condemns today’s suicide attack at a graduation ceremony of medical students in Mogadishu. Reports indicate that at least fifteen Somalis have lost their lives, among them three cabinet ministers of the Transitional Federal Government, graduating students and journalists reporting on what should have been an event filled with hope for Somalia. Another government minister has been severely wounded in this attack. The Secretary-General sends his deepest sympathies to the families of the victims as well as to the government and the people of Somalia. This attack could only strengthen the ...
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Heavy fighting erupted Tuesday in a densely packed slum area of Somalia's capital, killing several people and sending thousands fleeing as a leading aid agency warned of a humanitarian catastrophe. At least five people died, three of them civilians. Officials and residents said clashes erupted in Dharkinley in southwest Mogadishu early in the morning when Somali loyalist forces attacked checkpoints manned by hardline Islamists in a bid to recapture positions seized earlier. "The fighting has intensified and spread to several locations in the district. One soldier died as the forces stormed a police station and they killed one militant fighter," a police officer Abdullahi ...
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Two boys look at the bodies of two government soldiers killed during clashes between Islamic fighters and government soldiers, in Mogadishu, Somalia, Friday, May 22, 2009. Renewed fighting between government troops and Islamist insurgents in the Somali capital killed seven people on Friday, residents and an independent radio station said. Residents reported heavy shelling in the heart of the city. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh) From Yahoo News/AP: MOGADISHU, Somalia – Hundreds of Somali government troops attacked insurgent-held positions north and south of the capital on Friday and the heart of the city was heavily shelled, witnesses said. One said a busload of fleeing civilians ...
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Clashes have broken out on Somalia's eastern coast over a land dispute, leaving at least nine people dead and seven injured, local officials said on Saturday. The clashes erupted on Friday in Harardhere, some 300 kilometres (188 miles) north of Mogadishu, between clan factions, the officials said. "The worst fighting occurred late Friday on the outskirts of the town," Ahmed Abdulahi, a local elder, told AFP by phone. "We have collected the dead bodies of nine people, most of them combatants who were killed during the clashes." Another elder in Mogadishu, Moalim Dahir Adan, said the clan factions "have been arguing about land for ...
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Al-Shebab rebels walk past the body of a Somali government soldier killed in fighting near embattled Mogadishu stadium. At least eight people were killed overnight in clashes between pro-government forces and insurgents in central Somalia, residents and officials said Wednesday. (AFP/Mohamed Dahir) Somalia Insurgents Vow Fight To Topple Government — Washington Post MOGADISHU, Somalia — Pro-government militias and Islamic insurgents battled in Somalia’s capital Wednesday for a fourth day, as an insurgent leader vowed his forces would not relent until the government is overthrown. Since the weekend, both sides have pounded the northern part of the capital, Mogadishu, with mortars and gunfire in the ...
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