At least 26 people were killed during armed clashes on Sunday between pro-government militias and Islamist insurgents near the Somali-Kenya border, Radio Garowe reports.
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Somalia: 26 killed in insurgent fighting near Kenya border
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Government, Military, tagged Somalia on September 12, 2011|
SOMALIA: Gunfire Said to Kill 7 as Aid is Looted in Somalia
Posted in Africa, AMISOM, Civilian Casualties, Displacement, Government, Gunfire, Horn of Africa, Looting, Military, Somalia, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, United Nations, tagged African Union, Al-Shaabab, Civilian Casualties, famine, humanitarian aid, IDPs, International Committee of the Red Cross, refugees, Somalia, the United Nations, World Food Programme on August 5, 2011|
AP | Abdi Guled and Katherine Houreld| August 5, 2011
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.
SOMALIA: Somalis Waste Away as Insurgents Block Escape From Famine
Posted in Africa, Civilian Casualties, Displacement, Ethiopia, Foreign Aid, Government, Horn of Africa, Hostages, Internal Displaced Persons, Kenya, Refugee Camps, Somalia, Terrorists, United Nations, United States, tagged al-Qaida, Al-Shaabab, American Refugee Committee, Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, famine, horn of Africa, humanitarian disaster, humanitarian relief, Islamist militants, Mogadishu, Peacekeepers, Somalia, Transitional Federal Government (TFG), United Nations, World Food Programme on August 1, 2011|
The New York Times | Jeffrey Gettleman | 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.
SOMALIA: Gunmen Kill Somali Lawmaker: official
Posted in Africa, Civilian Casualties, Gunfire, Horn of Africa, Somalia, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, Terrorists, United Nations, tagged aid agencies, al Shabaab, Civilian Casualties, horn of Africa, Mogadishu, Somalia, UN, UNICEF, World Food Programme on July 31, 2011|
AFP | July 31, 2011
Armed men shot and killed a Somali lawmaker in Mogadishu on Sunday, officials and witnesses said, in the latest violence to hit Somalia’s war-ravaged capital.
SOMALIA: 6 Killed in Battle to Keep Somali Aid Flowing
Posted in Africa, AMISOM, Civilian Casualties, Ethiopia, Foreign Aid, Government, Gunfire, Horn of Africa, Kenya, Refugee Camps, Somalia, United Nations, tagged African Union, African Union forces, aid, Al-Shaabab, emergency, famine, horn of Africa, Mogadishu, refugees, Somalia, United Nations, World Food Programme on July 28, 2011|
VOA News | 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.
SOMALIA: Six Die in Roadside Bomb Blast in Mogadishu
Posted in AMISOM, Civilian Casualties, Horn of Africa, Peacekeepers, Somalia, Targeted Death, tagged African Union, African Union peacekeepers, Amisom, Civilian Casualties, civilian deaths, east africa, government troops, horn of Africa, Islamist Rebels, roadside bomb, Somalia on June 21, 2011|
AFP | June 21, 2011
At least six people were killed Tuesday when a minibus carrying civilians struck a roadside bomb in the Somali capital, witnesses said.
SOMALIA: Suicide Bombers Strike Mogadishu Port, Four Killed
Posted in AMISOM, Civilian Casualties, Horn of Africa, Somalia, Suicide Bomb, Terrorists, tagged African Union forces, African Union troops, Al Shabab, Amisom, civilian casulaties, horn of Africa, Mogadishu, Somalia, suicide bombers on June 9, 2011|
AFP | 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. (more…)