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Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 7, 2019
Hundred of thousands displaced by floods in East Africa
Heavy rains and floods have killed more than 50 people and forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes across East Africa as researchers warn warming oceans are causing unpredictable weather patterns in the region.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 1, 2019
Al-Shabab and Somali soldiers battle in Mogadishu
A gunbattle raged in Mogadishu on Friday between Somali soldiers and al-Shabab fighters, holed up in a building next to a hotel they had hit with a suicide car bomb the previous evening.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 7, 2018
Al-Shabab admits Somali blast that killed two generals and seven guards
Nine Somali soldiers including two generals were killed on Thursday by a blast just outside the capital Mogadishu, militants and an army official said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 15, 2018
Al-Shabab takes credit for suicide blasts fatal to 20 in Somalia on anniversary of attack fatal to over 500
The number of people killed in twin suicide bomb attacks on two restaurants in Somalia's southern city of Baidoa has risen to 20 and another 40 people were injured, a local hospital official said on Sunday.
WORLD
Aug 9, 2018
Suspected al-Shabab militants kill five soldiers in Kenya's Lamu county
Five Kenyan soldiers were killed in an attack claimed by the Somali group al-Shabab in Lamu County on Kenya's north coast on Wednesday, a senior official said.
WORLD / Society
Jul 26, 2018
Somalia brings first prosecution for female genital mutilation
Somalia's Attorney General Ahmed Ali Dahir announced on Wednesday the country's first prosecution against female genital mutilation (FGM) following the death of a 10-year-old girl, an adviser to the government said.
WORLD
Nov 28, 2017
U.S. military says it conducted airstrike against Islamic State in Somalia, killing one
The U.S. military said on Monday it had carried out an airstrike against Islamic State militants in northeast Somalia, killing one person.
WORLD
Nov 4, 2017
U.S. carries out first airstrikes against Islamic State in Somalia
The United States carried out its first airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Somalia and killed "several terrorists," the U.S. military said Friday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 22, 2017
Somalia prepares for 'war' against al-Shabab extremists, with U.S. help; death toll in truck bombing reaches 358
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Japan Times
WORLD
May 12, 2017
Somalia and its foreign backers sign pact to beef up army against al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militants
Somalia's government and its foreign backers on Thursday signed a security pact that they presented as a road map toward building a functional national army capable of taking on the fight against al-Shabab militants.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Mar 17, 2017
Somali militants let drought-hit civilians roam for food
Somali Islamists are letting civilians in drought-hit regions under their control move with relative freedom to find food, the group and a U.N. official said on Thursday, but they are continuing to restrict the access of international aid groups.
WORLD
Oct 31, 2016
Shabab fighters wrest town from Somali forces
The Islamist group al-Shabab seized a town northwest of Somalia's capital from government forces on Sunday, the latest small center taken by the militant group trying to topple the country's Western-backed government.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
May 13, 2016
Kenya looks to close mass refugee camps, send scared Somalis packing
Kenya's plan to close the two refugee camps, including the world's largest, and send Somali refugees home has upset Somalia's government and sparked fear among some who have sought shelter there.
WORLD
Mar 21, 2016
Kenya reports killing 34 al-Shabab fighters in Somalia, losing two of its own
Kenyan troops killed 34 al-Shabab militants in two separate incidents on Saturday and Sunday in Somalia and two of its own soldiers were killed in an ambush, a military spokesman said.
WORLD
Feb 9, 2016
Somalia plane bomber used canceled Turkish flight boarding pass: airline CEO
A suspected suicide bomber who blew a hole in the fuselage of a Daallo Airlines plane last week and forced it to make an emergency landing in Mogadishu was meant to be on a Turkish Airlines flight, the Daallo chief executive said on Monday.
WORLD
Dec 28, 2015
Al-Qaida-linked Somalia militants claim killing four security troops in northeast Kenya ambush
The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab said it ambushed a Kenyan security vehicle in remote northeastern Kenya on Sunday, killing four members of the security forces.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 2, 2015
Somalia facing a whole new type of pirate
Somalia's rich marine resources are being plundered by foreign fishing vessels, and the war-torn nation needs international help to fend them off.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 8, 2015
Al-Shabab targets sleeping Christian quarry workers in Kenya, killing 14
Al-Shabab gunmen killed 14 people, mostly quarry workers, officials said, in an overnight attack on a residential complex in northeast Kenya that the Islamic militant group said had targeted Christians.

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