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More Fighting in Somali Capital; Burundi to Send Peacekeepers |
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Sunday, 16 December 2007 |
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Witnesses report more shelling and gunfire in Somalia's capital Friday as Islamist insurgents battle the government and Ethiopian troops.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 16 December 2007 )
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Ethiopian Crackdown on Ogaden's Somali Rebel Movement |
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Sunday, 16 December 2007 |
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Bitter fighting continues in Ethiopia's troubled southeast as a humanitarian crisis looms, with government troops battling separatist rebels of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF). The Ogaden, Ethiopia's "Region Five," is a poor desert land about the size of Britain with some 4.5 million people, mainly ethnic Somalis.
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Somalia says rebels regrouping |
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Sunday, 16 December 2007 |
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Somalia's interim government has said 80 per cent of the country is not under its control. The Islamic Courts Union driven from power a year ago by Western-backed troops is regrouping and planning a large-scale attack and the government can do little to stop it, Sheikh Qasim Ibrahim Nur, the national security director, said.
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Somalia: Insurgent attacks kill, wound people in Baidoa and Beletwein |
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Saturday, 15 December 2007 |
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BAIDOA, Somalia Dec 15 (Garowe Online) - A roadside bomb intended to blow up an Ethiopian army convoy in south-central Somalia missed its target, but subsequent gunfire opened by Ethiopian soldiers wounded nine people, including seven Somali soldiers nearby, witnesses said.
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Somali explosion kills 22 soldiers |
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Saturday, 15 December 2007 |
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At least 22 Somali soldiers are killed in a remote control explosion targeted at a military pick-up truck in Baidoa 250 km from Mogadishu.
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Bomb wounds 12 soldiers near Somali parliament |
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Saturday, 15 December 2007 |
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MOGADISHU, Dec 15 (Reuters) - A roadside bomb wounded at least 12 Somali soldiers in Baidoa and two people were killed in violence in Mogadishu on Saturday.
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Ethiopians Said to Push Civilians Into Rebel War |
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Saturday, 15 December 2007 |
 NAIROBI, Kenya — The Ethiopian government, one of America’s top allies in Africa, is forcing untrained civilians — including doctors, teachers, office clerks and employees of development programs financed by the World Bank and United Nations — to fight rebels in the desolate Ogaden region, according to Western officials, refugees and Ethiopian administrators who recently defected to avoid being conscripted.
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Somalia: 5 civilians wounded in fresh clashes, Ethiopians abandon Key Street |
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Sunday, 09 December 2007 |
 Five people are believed to have been wounded in skirmishes which happened around Mogadishu’s main Bakara market on Sunday between police forces and the local insurgents, witnesses said – as the Ethiopian troops deserted several residential areas in south of the city.
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Islamist Fighters Seize Central Somali Town |
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Sunday, 09 December 2007 |
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Witnesses say Islamist fighters have taken over a town in central Somalia after a brief battle with government troops.
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