Somali Islamist leader out of Kenyan custody
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Top Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed -- seen by Washington as a potential key to reconciliation in post-war Somalia -- was out of custody in Kenya on Thursday and reported to be leaving soon for Yemen.
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The leader of a pro-Taliban mosque was captured hiding under a burka last night as he tried to escape a siege.
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The Somali government on Tuesday released a U.N. food official held for nearly a week after dozens of intelligence officers stormed the world body's compound in Mogadishu, a witness said.
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The Somali peace process that began in Kenya two years ago could soon come to a close. Somalia&#39;s new parliament, which is sitting in Kenya&#39;s capital, Nairobi, is on the verge of selecting a president, and
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Militant Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, in hiding since the war at the end of 2006 that ousted his movement from southern Somalia, appeared on Thursday at a conference in Eritrea.
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One of North Africa's most wanted  Islamic militant leaders, accused in the kidnapping of 32  European tourists last year, has been taken into custody in  Algeria, authorities said on Thursday.
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An alleged militant accused of trying to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf escapes from jail, the authorities say.
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Mediators welcome the return of a Somali warlord to the peace process in neighbouring Kenya.
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The newly elected president of Somalia says the country's businesses must disband their militias.
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A leader of the militant group behind attacks on Nigeria's oil industry was released from prison Thursday, a gesture seen as a peace offering by a new government that has vowed to make the crisis a priority.
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NAIROBI, Kenya - Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gedi of Somalia resigned yesterday after weeks of mounting tensions inside the Horn of Africa nation's transitional government and a power struggle with the president.
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Afghan security forces have captured  Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar's personal security chief  as he traveled in a van to the southern city of Kandahar,  provincial officials told Reuters Tuesday.
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Afghan security forces have captured Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar's personal security chief as he traveled in a van to the southern city of Kandahar, provincial officials told Reuters on Tuesday.
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A fundamentalist Muslim who the U.S. suspects of collaborating with al-Qaida terrorists was named Saturday as the new leader of an Islamic militia that has seized control of Somalia&#039;s capital.
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Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, leader of the Barod clan, one of the four major clans of Somalia, was elected president of Somalia, parliament speaker Shariff Hassan Shek Adan announced here Sunday.
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An Islamic militant involved in an  assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf a year ago  has escaped from custody, triggering a nationwide hunt,  Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said Tuesday.
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KISMAYU, Somalia  - Ethiopian soldiers paraded on Tuesday a wounded senior cleric captured in south Somalia during the pursuit of remnants of an Islamist movement ousted from Mogadishu in a war over the New Year.