Somali president describes attack
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The interim President of Somalia, Abdullahi Yusuf, tells the BBC how he escaped an assassination attempt.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, Feb. 20 -- Mortar rounds and rockets hit Somalia's capital early Tuesday in a series of attacks that killed 15 people and wounded more than 40, doctors and witnesses said.
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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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afrol News, 14 October - Somalia&#39;s first President in 13 years, Colonel Abdullahi Yusuf, has taken his oath in a Nairobi ceremony and Somalia yesterday was re-granted its voting rights at the UN.
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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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BAIDOA, Somalia  - A car bomb killed five people   and wounded several others outside parliament in Somalia's   provincial capital Baidao on Monday in an assassination attempt   on President Abdullahi Yusuf.
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Somalia's interim government increases security around its base after an attempt to kill President Yusuf.
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The president of Ethiopia's volatile Somali region was wounded in the leg in a grenade attack on Monday during a ceremony in the regional capital Jijiga, a senior government official said.
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Insurgents fire mortars at the Somali president's residence, a few hours after his arrival in the 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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At least four people die in Somalia's capital in a mortar attack on the presidential palace.
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Four mortar explosions rocked the Somali capital Friday, wounding six people &#151; including two children &#151; a day after an advance team of African peacekeepers arrived in the country, witnesses said.
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: Somalia&#39;s new president named a prime minister, choosing a member from another of the four largest clans to preside over what is hoped will be a government of reconciliation in the war-ravaged country.
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A new dawn breaks over Somalia. The interim Somali Parliament convened a special session in Kenya and elected Colonel Abdullah Yusuf Ahmed, the self-styled leader of the autonomous region of Puntland, as the new interim Somali president.
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Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed on Monday said a deployment of Ugandan troops to Somalia, the first members of an 8,000-strong African Union peacekeeping force, should begin this week.
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Mortar rounds crashed into Somalia's presidential palace on Tuesday hours after President Abdullahi Yusuf flew back into the chaotic coastal capital Mogadishu.
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Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf escaped unhurt from a mortar attack on his official residence in the capital on Saturday, hours after returning to Mogadishu from an overseas trip, one of his aides said.