Somalis flee as attacks escalate
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At least 10,000 people flee fresh violence since the start of peace talks in Somalia's capital, the UN says.
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Deadly gunfire and explosions wracked Mogadishu Monday after weeks of relative calm as the Islamic militiamen controlling Somalia&#039;s capital battled one of the last pockets of resistance to their hard-line rule.
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NAIROBI, June 22 -- In another sign of trouble for Somalia's transitional government, fighting erupted Friday among hundreds of government soldiers belonging to two rival sub-clans.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somalia's government has sent hundreds of troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers to recapture a strategic southern town seized by the country's powerful Islamic movement, military officials and witnesses said yesterday, as dozens of families began fleeing the area.
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At least six explosions rocked the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Friday, witnesses said, a day after Ugandan peacekeepers started arriving in the lawless Horn of Africa country.
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Libya has started expelling hundreds of Somalis that had tried and failed to reach Europe.
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MINGORA, Pakistan  - Thousands of Pakistanis are fleeing a northwestern town and outlying villages because they fear a showdown between the security forces and an Islamist militant Taliban-style movement, residents said.
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CHEBILAT, Kenya  - Militiamen armed with clubs, sharpened sticks and machetes patrolled roads in Kenya's Rift Valley on Sunday, while scores of people fled ethnic attacks on their homes in heavily armed police convoys.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - Somali security forces on Thursday hunted for the kidnappers of two foreign aid workers who were whisked away by gunmen after a firefight into a mountainous region of Puntland, local officials said.
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Pirate attacks are increasing off the coast of East Africa, disrupting the flow of food and medicine to Somalis in desperate need of humanitarian aid, the United Nations said Tuesday.
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BUUR HAKABA, Somalia  - Somali Islamist forces and pro-government troops dug in on Wednesday on either side of a frontline in the divided Horn of Africa nation which has this week slid closer to all-out war.
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A series of blasts hit the Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday, witnesses said, a day after Ugandan peacekeepers started arriving in the lawless Horn of Africa country.
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Both sides in the Somali conflict play down the significance of a deadline by Islamists for an attack.
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A powerful Somali militia has said it was ready to fight Ethiopian invaders, sparking fears of an all-out war in the lawless African nation.
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Somali government fighters and Ethiopian troops attack Islamist positions, an Islamist leader says.
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About 1,000 people are fleeing Somalia's  capital Mogadishu every day and political instability is making  it increasingly hard to deliver aid, a United Nations official  said on Friday.
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Troops stepped up security across the Somali capital Saturday after Islamists threatened to disrupt a peace conference, saying anyone who takes part "is sentenced to death."