Somali gunmen attack Ethiopians, kill official
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Somali insurgents attacked Ethiopian troops hours after a reconciliation conference was postponed for a second time and killed a local official on Thursday.
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Ethiopia's Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) rebels said they killed 140 government soldiers in a weekend assault targeting a visiting senior official, a statement Ethiopia immediately denounced as false.
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Somali gunmen shot dead a senior government official in a troubled Mogadishu district and a teenager died when munitions left behind by African Union peacekeepers exploded, officials said on Tuesday.
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Somali government troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers shot a man on Friday, wounding him as they cleared a former defense ministry compound in a crackdown on near-daily attacks in Mogadishu, residents said.
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Somali insurgents assassinated a local official on Thursday and attacked Ethiopian troops overnight just hours after a second attempt to start a peace conference was postponed, residents said.
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Gunmen opened fire on the Israeli Embassy in the West African nation of Mauritania on Friday morning, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
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At least four people die in Somalia's capital in a mortar attack on the presidential palace.
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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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Somalia's presidential spokesman was shot in the neck while he was stuck in a traffic jam in the latest assassination attempt on a government official in this chaotic nation, authorities said Tuesday.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A veiled woman and two other suicide bombers exploded cars outside the base of Somalia's weak government yesterday, killing eight people after Ethiopia took another step toward war with its Islamic rivals in the country.
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Somalia's interim government increases security around its base after an attempt to kill President Yusuf.
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Extremists in Somalia threatened to carry out suicide attacks against African Union peacekeepers who are to begin deploying in the coming days, as gunmen fatally shot two local government officials in the capital.
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A blast ripped through a crowd in  Ethiopia&#39;s volatile Somali region on Monday, killing at least  five people and setting off a stampede that saw up to six more  die, according to witnesses and aid-workers.
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Somali government troops and their Ethiopian allies used tanks and heavy artillery to battle gunmen who struck a military base at the former defense ministry in Mogadishu on Friday.
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Several Somalis are killed in fighting between rival militias near the port city of Kismayo.
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Gunmen shot and killed a senior official from the mainstream Palestinian Fatah party Tuesday in the Balata refugee camp, party officials said.
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Gunmen have fired mortar shells into the seaport of Somalia's capital Mogadishu, signalling an escalation of attacks in the lawless African nation since a joint Somali-Ethiopian force took control of the city from an Islamist force late last year.