Nail bomb kills in Ugandan capital
A bomb that killed at least one person in a pork restaurant on the outskirts of the Ugandan capital Kampala
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Five soccer players die after blast hits bus
AN explosive planted on a bus carrying soccer players in Somalia’s port city of Kismayo killed at least five players,
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Somalia to hold indirect election on October 10
SOMALIA will indirectly pick a new president on October 10, the prime minister has announced, potentially easing a political crisis
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30 killed in al Shabaab attack
AN estimated 30 people died on Sunday when Somalia’s Islamist al Shabaab group launched an attack in a town in
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Somalia doesn’t want Kenyan forces
ABDI SHEIKH SOMALIA says it has lost confidence in Kenyan troops serving in an African Union (AU) peacekeeping force, in
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Somalia’s al Shabaab says behind Turkish company attack, four dead
A car bomb targeting workers of a Turkish company has killed four people including one Turkish citizen in Somalia, Turkey’s
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Suicide bomber kills six in Mogadishu ice-cream parlour
A suicide bomber blew himself up in an ice-cream parlour in the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing six people and wounding
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Elaborate Somali insurgent tax system collects almost as much as government
KATHERINE HOURELD THE Somali insurgent group al Shabaab collects almost as much tax as the government through a sophisticated system
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Dozens reported killed in clashes between Somali government, fighters
DOZENS of soldiers and insurgents were killed in two days of fighting between Somali government forces and al Shabaab militants
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At least 13 Somali soldiers killed after clash with al Shabaab
FEISAL OMAR and ABDI SHEIKH AT least 13 Somali troops have died after the army attacked militant group al Shabaab
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