Somali gunmen attack Ethiopians, kill official
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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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At least eight civilians are killed after insurgents ambush Ethiopian troops in the Somali capital.
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A U.S. official was critically wounded  in a shooting attack on an embassy vehicle in Khartoum on  Tuesday and his Sudanese driver was killed, a Western  diplomatic source said.
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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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Insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles attacked an Ethiopian army base in northern Mogadishu, triggering a deadly nighttime clash that sent stray mortar rounds crashing into homes, residents and witnesses said Sunday.
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Ethiopian troops fired Monday at a would-be suicide bomber speeding toward their base, blowing up the car and killing the bomber and a civilian standing nearby, officials said.
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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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At least four people die in Somalia's capital in a mortar attack on the presidential palace.
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A remote-controlled roadside bomb tore into an Ethiopian army convoy in Somalia on Wednesday, wounding five soldiers and sparking gunfire that killed at least four civilians, locals and a security source said.
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The Nairobi residence of the newly elected Somali president is attacked by unknown gunmen.
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Gunmen shot dead five people in two separate attacks in the lawless Somali capital in an escalation of killings ahead of the planned deployment of African Union peacekeepers.
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A Somali government soldier opened fire on Monday at a crowd clamoring for food aid in Mogadishu and killed at least three people, witnesses said.
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Mortar attacks in a residential area and on a hotel in the Somali capital killed five people and injured 10 on Saturday, witnesses said, a day after a previously unknown pro-Islamist group warned it would step up violence.
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Gunmen threw grenades at the home of the regional police chief in southwestern Somalia, killing two of his grandchildren and a bodyguard but not their target, authorities said Tuesday.
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Gunmen attacked the house of a senior Baquba police official Friday, killing at least 14 people, a Diyala province security official said.
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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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Five people are killed in separate attacks in Somalia's capital, including a relative of the prime minister.