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CNN World News, 09.01.09 02:01 UTC

U.N. aid workers shot to death in Somalia

(CNN) -- Gunmen shot and killed a food monitor for the United Nations' World Food Program on Thursday, the second killing of a WFP humanitarian worker in Somalia in three days, a spokesman for the agency said Thursday.

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Economist, 08.01.09 17:44 UTC

Ethiopia and Somalia - Back into the abyss?

Scary possibilities for the future of Africa’s most utterly failed state

MOGADISHU The Economist spy network Somalia Ethiopia Abdullahi Yusuf +2 more

BBC World News, 07.01.09 10:33 UTC

Peacekeeper killed in Mogadishu

An African Union peacekeeper has been killed and another one injured by a roadside bomb in the Somali capital.

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BBC World News, 05.01.09 13:01 UTC

AU plea to plug Somali troop gaps

African Union officials in Somalia have told the BBC they will plug the gaps left by departing Ethiopian troops.

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Houston Chronicle - World, 04.01.09 17:31 UTC

2 kidnapped journalists freed, were kept in Somali caves

MOGADISHU, Somalia Two foreign journalists a Briton and a Spaniard were released in good health Sunday after nearly six weeks in captivity in Somalia, officials said. The journalists, reporter Colin ...

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Houston Chronicle - World, 04.01.09 07:02 UTC

Insurgents undertake power grab

Fighters seize police stations in Somali capital

MOGADISHU The Associated Press al-Shabab insurgent group Somalia Abdirahim Issa Adow +2 more

BBC World News, 04.01.09 05:35 UTC

Somali police stations taken over

Islamist militiamen have taken over a number of abandoned police stations in the Somali capital as Ethiopian troops continue to withdraw from the city.

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USA Today, 03.01.09 12:31 UTC

Somali insurgents take over police stations

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Witnesses say Islamic militants are taking over police stations in the Somali capital as Ethiopian troops pull out.

MOGADISHU Somalia Ethiopia Abdirahim Issa Adow

Seattle Times, 03.01.09 10:02 UTC

Chinese tainted-milk victim's father held

Beijing Chinese police detained the father of a child sickened by tainted milk apparently to prevent him and other parents from holding a news conference to complain about proposed compensation for ...

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The Independent, 03.01.09 08:31 UTC

Occupying soldiers withdraw from capital

Hundreds of Ethiopian soldiers have started pulling out of the Somali capital Mogadishu amid fears the troops' departure will allow Islamic insurgents to take even more control of the lawless ...

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