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		<title>SOMALIA: Gunfire Said to Kill 7 as Aid is Looted in Somalia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AP &#124; Abdi Guled and Katherine Houreld&#124; August 5, 2011 &#160; Somali government troops opened fire Friday on hungry civilians, killing at least seven people, as both groups made a grab for food at a U.N. distribution site in the capital of this famine-stricken country, witnesses said. Witnesses said government soldiers created the chaos by trying to steal some [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1386865&#038;post=5947&#038;subd=warvictims&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SOMALIA: Somalis Waste Away as Insurgents Block Escape From Famine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times &#124; Jeffrey Gettleman &#124; August 1, 2011 The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced people who were trying to escape Shabab territory. The group is widely blamed for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1386865&#038;post=5926&#038;subd=warvictims&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFP &#124; July 31, 2011 &#160; Armed men shot and killed a Somali lawmaker in Mogadishu on Sunday, officials and witnesses said, in the latest violence to hit Somalia&#8217;s war-ravaged capital. &#8220;Two gunmen shot a legislator near his hotel tonight, they shot him in the head and shoulder and he died instantly,&#8221; Somali security official [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1386865&#038;post=5921&#038;subd=warvictims&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SOMALIA: 6 Killed in Battle to Keep Somali Aid Flowing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VOA News &#124; July 28, 2011 At least six people are reported to have been killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu, as African Union and government forces battle to protect the flow of food aid against militant attacks. Witnesses said the deaths occurred during heavy fighting Thursday — one day after the World Food Program [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1386865&#038;post=5908&#038;subd=warvictims&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SOMALIA: Six Die in Roadside Bomb Blast in Mogadishu</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFP &#124; June 21, 2011 &#160; At least six people were killed Tuesday when a minibus carrying civilians struck a roadside bomb in the Somali capital, witnesses said. The device exploded as a convoy of Burundian troops belonging to the African Union force was going past, but it struck the minibus, leaving three civilians dead on the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1386865&#038;post=5765&#038;subd=warvictims&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFP &#124; June 9, 2011 MOGADISHU — Two suicide bombers attacked the port in the Somalia capital Mogadishu Thursday, killing two civilian workers and also losing their own lives, witness and officials said. One of the suicide bombers blew himself up and security forces shot the other dead, they said. &#8220;Two suicide bombers attacked the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1386865&#038;post=5728&#038;subd=warvictims&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SOMALIA: Fighting in Somali Capital Kills 17</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New clashes in Somalia's capital have killed at least 17 people, as pro-government troops continue to battle militants for control of a popular commercial site.
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by VOA News &#124; June 2, 2011 &#160; MOGADISHU &#8211; New clashes in Somalia&#8217;s capital have killed at least 17 people, as pro-government troops continue to battle militants for control of a popular commercial site. Somali government troops backed by African Union peacekeepers are trying to take Mogadishu&#8217;s Bakara market from al-Shabab insurgents. Medical officials [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1386865&#038;post=5669&#038;subd=warvictims&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NAIROBI, 31 May 2011 (IRIN) &#8211; Hundreds of children younger than five have been wounded in the latest round of fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia&#8217;s capital, accounting for almost half of all trauma cases in May, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO). In a press statement issued on 31 May, WHO said recent data [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1386865&#038;post=5611&#038;subd=warvictims&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 16:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VOA News &#124; Michael Onyiego &#124; May 24, 2011 As international troops close in on Mogadishu&#8217;s Bakara market, a stronghold of the militant group al-Shabab, an analyst from the International Crisis Group is warning that seizing the critical position could prove to be complicated and costly. Much of the military campaign in Somalia&#8217;s war-torn capital, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1386865&#038;post=5604&#038;subd=warvictims&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 15:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Associated Press 20 May, 2011 MOGADISHU, Somalia –  Hassan Qasim lies shackled to a wall in a hallway with 25 other patients at a clinic for the mentally ill in Somalia. The country has been mired in civil war for almost as long as he&#8217;s been alive. Doctors say the 25-year-old&#8217;s brother and sister both [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1386865&#038;post=5571&#038;subd=warvictims&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 18:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Afrique en lingue 19 May, 2011 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia &#8211; The African Union (AU) has called for urgent African support for Somalia to enable it deal with a drought, worsened by huge displacement of populations due to the ongoing military operations in the country. An ongoing military offensive in Somalia, coupled with the worst drought [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1386865&#038;post=5559&#038;subd=warvictims&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 17:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFP 18 May, 2011 MOGADISHU — Shells fired in battles between insurgent militant Islamists and African Union forces at a Mogadishu market on Wednesday left at least 14 civilian dead, witnesses said. &#8220;Nine victims died in two separate areas inside Bakara market, most of them women,&#8221; witness Idriss Ali told AFP. &#8220;One round of mortar [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1386865&#038;post=5554&#038;subd=warvictims&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 17:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mareeg Online 18 May, 2011 MOGADISHU (Mareeg) – Clashes erupted between Somali forces backed by AMSIOM and Al shabaab fighters inMogadishuon Wednesday killing at least 15 people and hurting 80 others. Health officials said most of the victims harmed by shrapnel of haphazard artillery bombardments both the warring factions used during the confrontations. A number [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1386865&#038;post=5550&#038;subd=warvictims&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 16:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SPONSOR WIRE 18 May, 2011 The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has on Monday 16th May 2011 relocated its civilian international staff and police officers to Mogadishu, Somalia. The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, Ambassador Boubacar Gaoussou Diarra said with the deployment of these civilian personnel [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1386865&#038;post=5547&#038;subd=warvictims&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 19:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IRIN 17 May, 2011 Facilities in refugee camps in northeastern Kenya have been stretched to the limit, aid workers say, as more and more Somali refugees flee the conflict at home. &#8220;Dadaab refugee camps continue to receive a significant number of new arrivals who are often very tired and exhausted, having travelled very far, sometimes [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1386865&#038;post=5531&#038;subd=warvictims&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 14:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IRIN NAIROBI, 13 May 2011 (IRIN) &#8211; Some provisions of new legislation governing the activities of NGOs in Somaliland could undermine international humanitarian activity in the self-declared independent territory, say aid workers and donors. The Non-Governmental Organization Act (National and International)  is designed to establish a legal framework for NGOs, to ensure their activities are [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1386865&#038;post=5516&#038;subd=warvictims&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 14:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AllAfrica.com 13 May, 2011 Muqdisho — &#8211; Bitter Clashes between Somalia government forces supported militarily by African Union peacekeepers and Al shabaab fighters on Friday occurred in parts of Somalia&#8217;s war-torn capital Mogadishu. Most of the confrontation, which was very fierce, rocked the neighborhoods of Mogadishu&#8217;s Hodan district as heavy gunfire and artillery shell could [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1386865&#038;post=5514&#038;subd=warvictims&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 18:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[5/3/11 By: Malyun Ali MOGADISHU (RBC) Somalia President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed claimed victory over Al-Shabab after a day-long fighting between government forces and the Al-Shabab rebels occurred in Garbaharey town of Gedo region. The fighting broke out early on Monday morning after Al-Shahab fighters attacked government controlled town of Garbaharey which is the provincial [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1386865&#038;post=5462&#038;subd=warvictims&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NAIROBI, 15 April 2011 (IRIN) &#8211; A severe drought in and around Somalia&#8217;s southern town of Dobley is taking its toll on thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs), some of whom have been displaced several times by fighting. As a result, lack of water, food and shelter has worsened the condition of an already weak [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1386865&#038;post=5285&#038;subd=warvictims&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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