Shabaab has released a video of Denis Allex, one of two French security personnel kidnapped by the group from a hotel in Mogadishu last year. From Reuters: In the video, Allex repeats those demands and says the group will issue a list of names of prisoners it wants released. He says the defeat of President […]
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Somali troops fight al-Shabab militants in Mogadishu
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Militants fire mortars at Somali president’s palace
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Abu Mansour al Amriki, a senior military commander and propagandist for the al Qaeda-linked Shabaab, issues a nasheed calling for global jihad. The tape is aimed at recruiting Westerners.
Insurgents™ seizure of a pirate base in Somalia raises questions about its future
Britons join the jihadist ranks to fight in Somalia
Somali insurgents seize pirate haven
Forty Shabaab fighters and supporters were killed as a top military commander in Mogadishu spoke during prayer.
Thirty dead in Somalia mosque bombings
Unpaid Somali soldiers desert to insurgency
Somali MPs risk death, get little pay
Somalia: Al-Qaeda video aims at child recruits
Somalia’s Al Shabab recruits ‘holy warriors’ with $400 bonus
Somali insurgents ban school bells
Somalis on the move but fewer reach safe havens: UNHCR
Al Qaeda members land in Somalia from Yemen-govt
Somalia: Music ban on radio stations was expected
Somali refugees recruited to fight Islamist militia
Somali army trains to fight al-Qaida-linked rebels
Pentagon eyeing drone shift to aid Somalia
Somalis in rare march against al-Shabab militants
Sufi group vows to rid Somalia of radical Islamists
‘No evidence’ WFP’s Somalia food aid diverted
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A military commander was shot and killed as he left a mosque in Kismayo. Rival Hizbul Islam is the likely culprit.