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Unidentified gunmen have hurled a grenade to a mosque in the Galka'o town in Mudug region, just as more officials of Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a clerics were praying in the mosque, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
At least two people have been killed and more than 20 others have been wounded in the port town of Bosaso in the Semi -autonomous region of Puntland, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
At least 60 African peacekeepers have been killed and 200 injured in Somalia over the last three years, the African Union Mission in the country has said.
Kenya has increased security surveillance along the border with Somalia to prevent the fighting in the lawless state from spilling over into the country.
The cabinet of ministers of the Transitional Federal Government approved a Federal Constitution during a meeting in Mogadishu on Sunday.
Somali pirates have reportedly seized a Greek-owned oil tanker and its 28 crewmembers more than 1000 kilometers off the coast of Somalia.
The president of the Transitional Federal Government Sharif Sheik Ahmed has Tuesday visited several military bases of the government troops in south of the Somali capital Mogadishu.
The officials of Darawish troops of the transitional government have Tuesday said that the killing sentence of the military court against one of Darawish soldiers may decrease the other killings in Mogadishu.
The forces of the Islamic administration of Wanlaweyn district in Lower Shabelle region have captured a woman who murdered her husband in there in southern Somalia, officials told Shabelle radio on Tuesday.
The Security Council today renewed for another 12 months the authorization for States and regional organizations fighting piracy off the Somali coast to enter the strife-torn country's territorial waters and "undertake all necessary measures that are appropriate in Somalia" provide they have the transitional government's consent.
Somali media and journalist associations decided on a cooperative action plan to counter the growing oppression of the media in Somalia. In 2009 six Somali journalists have been killed, others were detained, several stations were closed or taken over by armed groups.
Security forces in Puntland's commercial city of Bossasso on Monday morning nabbed a wanted Somali pirate called Omar Hassan Osman.
The president of Somalia's Puntland State has appointed a new media advisor.
Somali national charter, which forms the bases of the current Federal Transition Government, is likely to receive a comprehensive overhaul if the new initiative by Somali transitional federal government ministers succeeds.
A top African Union troop commander in Somalia revealed that they have contact with Somalia's most powerful insurgent group Al-Shabaab, which is waging war against the weak government and peacekeeping troops in the capital Mogadishu.
The two warring sides of the Islamists and TFG have claimed victory over heavy fighting that started early on Tuesday morning at parts of Warshadaha Street in the Somali capital Mogadishu, officials told Shabelle radio.
At least one civilian was killed and another wounded after clash between Somali militias started at Torotorow village in southern Somalia, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Monday.
About 40 of the transitional federal lawmakers have left from the Somali capital Mogadishu for three days seminar to the Kenyan capital Nairobi, officials told Shabelle radio on Monday.
The Islamist forces of Hisbul Islam organization have vowed that they will redouble their fighting against the TFG and AMISOM troops in the Somali capital Mogadishu, official said on Monday.
Somalia's militant group Al-Shabaab has seized control of Dobley, a southern border town located between Somalia and Kenya, witnesses said.
THE Immigration Department is today expected to commence the screening and interviewing of 22 Somali juveniles believed to be victims of an international syndicate in human trafficking.
Somalia's al-Shabaab insurgents have captured a key town close to the border with Kenya. The al Qaeda linked rebels are said to have driven out combatants of Hizbu-Islam, another Islamist group opposing the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG), to take control of Dhobley, the border town.
The self-proclaimed leader of Somalia's Al-Shabaab militant has vowed that his group will intensify its war with Un-backed Somali government and African Union peacekeeping troops in the restive capital Mogadishu.
Several Hizbul Islam officials led by Sheikh Ahmed Mohammed Islam (Madobe) have reportedly crossed the border into neighbouring Kenya, escaping the wrath of Al-Shabaab who ousted them out of Somalia's southern region of Lower Jubba, sources said.
The former president of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland General Adde Muse Hersi has Sunday said that some of the regions' troops joined the Somali pirates operating in the Indian Ocean and coast of Somalia.
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