Somali government fails to tame capital
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The killings in Mogadishu, Somalia's bloodstained capital, are not going away. Nearly every day, the city endures street battles, roadside bombs, showers of bullets.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist battlewagons moved   closer to the strategic Somali port of Kismayo, local officials   said on Friday, but Islamists denied any attempt to seize the   city and expand their territorial gains in the south.
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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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Somali authorities are questioning two suspects over a suicide attack in Baidoa, where the country's weak government is based, as war fears grew in the shattered African nation.
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People flee areas attacked in the Somali capital as moves to deploy peacekeepers are stepped up.
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Somali authorities have announced plans to impose a curfew on the capital, where at least five people were killed on Thursday in the latest violence to undermine government attempts to restore law.
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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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Sudanese rebel leaders&#39; demand that Islam be kept out of government in the war-torn region of Darfur, has been rejected by government negotiators.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist forces on Sunday   advanced toward Somalia's third largest city Kismayo and the   defense minister who controlled the region has fled, a witness   said.
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The Islamic militiamen controlling the Somali capital broke up a wedding celebration because a band was playing and women and men were socializing together, witnesses said Saturday, describing the latest crackdown by a group feared to be installing Taliban-style rule in this African nation.
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NAIROBI, Oct. 29 -- Somalia's prime minister resigned Monday amid pressure from neighboring powerhouse Ethiopia, faltering support from the United States and a power struggle with the Somali president who had appointed him.
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MOGADISHU - Mortar bombs and rockets struck parts of Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Thursday in an attack a government security source blamed on Islamists.
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Embattled Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi submitted a letter of resignation Monday to President Abdullahi Yusuf, apparently losing a long-brewing power struggle and throwing the government of the war-battered Horn of Africa nation into disarray.
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NAIROBI, June 19 -- Far from being defeated, Somalia's opposition groups are politically uniting, strengthening, and planning a conference next month to hone their strategy for ousting the Somali government and the Ethiopian troops backing  it, according to a recent statement issued by the groups...
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Ever since the Republic of Somalia forcefully gained its independence from European colonialists in 1960, the country is plagued by a number of serious problems including clan based governments, bad governance, chronic corruption, nepotism, favouritism
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Fighting killed at least four people in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday as Islamist-led rebels attacked government troops and their Ethiopian allies.
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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.