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WashingtonTV - Wed Nov 25, 4:37 am ET
Kismayu, Somalia, March 3 (Reuters)—Two U.S. missiles hit a house in southern Somalia on Monday, according to local officials, in an attack Washington said was directed at "known terrorists".
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International Herald Tribune - Mon Nov 23, 5:05 pm ET
The charges are part of a sweeping investigation of more than 20 young men who left the U.S. to join a militant Islamist group in Somalia, the Shabaab.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 25, 12:06 am ET
An AFP journalist who is among the few independent reporters still working in war-torn Mogadishu received Tuesday a key press award for his work, along with three other correspondents.
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Unicef - Tue Nov 24, 7:06 pm ET
NAIROBI, Kenya, 24 November, 2009 – For the first time ever, a Child Health Days campaign has reached displaced children and women in Somalia's Afgoye Corridor, a 30 km stretch of road west of Mogadishu that is the world's most densely populated settlement for the displaced.
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Bloomberg - Mon Nov 23, 8:11 pm ET
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Eight people were charged in an investigation into men who left the Minneapolis area to train with a terrorist organization in Somalia, the Justice Department said.
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Pioneer Press - Tue Nov 24, 1:14 am ET
NAIROBI, Kenya — The bullet hit mother and son as they walked through Somalia's capital. She felt a sharp pain in her palm. Then she saw her 8-year-old: The bullet tore through his cheekbones, nose and mouth. Blood gushed down to his waist.
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New York Daily News - Mon Nov 23, 11:45 pm ET
Authorities unsealed terrorism-related charges Monday against eight Americans they said recruited young people to fight for an Islamist group in Somalia that is linked to Al Qaeda .
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Bloomberg - Mon Nov 23, 5:14 pm ET
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Eight people were charged in an investigation into about 20 men who left the Minneapolis area to train with a terrorist organization in Somalia, the Justice Department said.
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IRIN - Tue Nov 24, 7:45 am ET
NAIROBI, 24 November 2009 (IRIN) - Somalia's Islamist Al-Shabab militia group has taken control of the southern town of Afmadow, 620km south of the capital Mogadishu, causing hundreds of families to flee in fear of violence.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 25, 7:39 am ET
The U.N.'s World Food Program must immediately stop importing relief rations to Somalia, hard-line rebels said on Wednesday, accusing the aid agency of devastating local agriculture.
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Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Mon Nov 23, 11:18 am ET
MOGADISHU, Somalia - A Somali businessman says a ship hijacked by pirates off East Africa two weeks ago has been released. Ali Dheere, the chairman of a group of traders in Mogadishu, says the al-Mizan has arrived in Somalia's capital.
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UPI - 34 minutes ago
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- The Islamic militant group that controls large parts of Somalia says the U.N.'s World Food Program must stop importing food into its territory.
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New York Times - Tue Nov 24, 10:28 pm ET
A Minnesota man has pleaded not guilty to terror-related charges in connection with the disappearances of as many as 20 young men who left the Twin Cities to fight with terrorists in Somalia.
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Los Angeles Times - Wed Nov 25, 3:10 am ET
Little Mogadishu residents talk of a lack of identity and a life of poverty and racism. And they disagree over their former neighbors who are accused of plotting jihad in Somalia. Barely a block from the Mississippi River sits a neighborhood Mark Twain could not have imagined.
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IRIN - Mon Nov 23, 9:45 am ET
NAIROBI, 23 November 2009 (IRIN) - Both locals and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Somalia's central town of Beletweyne are experiencing increased hardship with several changes in the town's administration, residents say.