Government forces take control of new bases in Mogadishu

Somalia: pro-government forces and militants engaged in heavy fighting

Newsweek: Famine Devastates Somalia

Thousands protest Al-Shabaab attack

TFG and ANISOM capture key ground in Mogadishu

Suna Times: Somalia report weekly newsletter

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Jolie-Pitt foundation donates 340k to expand famine victim health services

UNHCR despair at Southern Somalia feuding

Can Somalia's Islamist militants retake Mogadishu?"

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ICRC begins food distribution in Islamist-controlled areas"

Somali PM says suicide attack shows Al-Shabab 'weakness'

ICRC announces new food distribution in Somalia

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Clooney supports anti-poverty campaign

Somalia bombings point to militants' grim goals

Rescue workers scramble to help victims of truck bombing

Better US response to Somalia famine could fix misperceptions

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September 28, 2011: The US is setting up two more bases for its Predator and Reaper UAVS, in order to keep an eye on Islamic terror groups in Somalia, ..."

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Burt Kimmelman interviews Michael Lally

Toni Simon and Nick Piombino read from Stacy Doris' The Cake Part (final version of the video)

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Video of Alan Davies' inaugural reading at the University of Windsor -he will have a year long residence there

First official statement from the 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement"

Somali famine: taxes contributed to food shortages

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Can computers replace scientists?

Shirin Neshat: The Fall, a video on the famine in Somalia

75 die of hunger, cholera in Somalia

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AU forces in Somalia get 3000 troop boost

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Al shabaab launches offensive in the South

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From playground to battleground: children on the front in Somalia

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Time.com: Will we really let 750,000 starve to death?"

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Done hits in Yemen and Somalia

World must act fast on Somalia
"Lt. Colonel Paddy Ankunda: ON return to Somalia for my second tour of duty in April this year, I did notice one basic truth; much had changed. I had been to Somalia in 2007 as part of the first Ugandan Battle Group of 1,600 soldiers. At that time, we had a vague idea on how we would go about supporting the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) largely based in Nairobi and Jowhar"...

Somalia: Statement to the human rights council

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President Sharif calls for Somaliland to to be united with country