African force ambushed in Somalia
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At least nine restaurant diners die in an attack aimed at new African Union peacekeepers in Somalia's capital.
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A first contingent of 100 peacekeepers from Burundi deployed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday, hours after fighting between Islamist rebels and government forces killed at least four people.
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Gunmen fired rockets near Mogadishu's airport on Wednesday, witnesses said, a day after African peacekeepers started arriving to help the interim government restore order in lawless Somalia.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - Security forces pursued Somali kidnappers into a mountainous hideout on Wednesday hours after they abducted a Spanish and an Argentine aid worker from the medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF).
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Government forces backed by Ethiopian troops reportedly clash with Islamists for a second day in Somalia.
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Security forces in Somalia are hunting the gang who seized two aid workers, including a female doctor from Spain.
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - The Ugandan vanguard of an African peacekeeping force intended to help Somalia's interim government tighten its tenuous grip on the anarchic nation flew into the country on Thursday, witnesses said.
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Somalis in Mogadishu have broadly welcomed calls for an Arab-African peacekeeping force to replace Ethiopians troops supporting their interim government, which is being battered by an insurgency.
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ARUSHA, Tanzania, June 2 -- A U.S. Navy destroyer launched an attack on foreign fighters in a remote corner of northeastern Somalia late Friday, according to a senior U.S. official, though details of the operation remained sketchy.
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At least nine Somalis were killed when a rocket fired at African Union (AU) troops hit a restaurant in an ambush that inflicted the first casualties on the peacekeepers, officials said on Thursday.
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Somali insurgents attacked Ethiopian troops hours after a reconciliation conference was postponed for a second time and also killed a local official on Thursday.
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Insurgents trying to attack African  Union peacekeepers hit a restaurant in Somalia's capital  Mogadishu with a rocket-propelled grenade, killing at least  nine people in the building, residents said on Thursday.
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Gunmen threw two grenades at Ethiopian troops guarding a former Islamist base in the latest Iraq-style insurgent attack in the chaotic Somali capital, residents said on Monday.
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Around 30 Ugandan military officers on Thursday arrived in Somalia, the first members of an African Union peacekeeping force that is due to be deployed in the country.
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Seven people are killed in overnight attacks on Ethiopia troops in Somali's capital Mogadishu, residents say.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, Nov. 22 -- Hundreds of Ethiopian troops were patrolling a strategic road that leads to the southern town of Baidoa, where Somalia's interim government is based, after a brief but intense firefight in the area this week, witnesses said Wednesday.
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The African Union vowed on Wednesday to continue deploying peacekeepers in Somalia, brushing aside threats from an Islamist commander and an ambush of its troops in the lawless capital.