Ugandan soldiers capture scenes with their cellphones after completing training for deployment to Somalia.
Air Strikes Take Out Al Shabaab Fighters - Report
Gedo region's mayor has reported that Al Shabaab fighters at a training camp were defeated by drone air strikes.
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Somalia: Drone Strikes Hit Militants, Says Governor
Shabelle, 3 December 2011
The administration of Gedo region in southern Somalia for the Transitional federal government disclosed that Al-shabab fighters in the region were hugely defeated by air strikes in… Read more »
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Kenya: Twenty Days in Somalia Jungles Hunting Down Al-Shabaab
Nation, 3 December 2011
It all started on the morning of Wednesday, November 2, with a call from the Daily Nation managing editor. I was in Parliament Buildings - my beat - and I was required back at the… Read more »
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Uganda: State Sends More Troops to Somalia
New Vision, 2 December 2011
Another group of UPDF troops has been passed out and will join the African Union peace keeping mission in Somalia replacing one of the battle groups at the war-torn Mogadishu. Read more »
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Kenya: Media in Bed With the Military
Fahamu, 1 December 2011
National media coverage of Kenya's invasion of Somalia all comes from a single source - the military, writes Henry Makori. No wonder there seems to be so little opposition to the… Read more »
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Somalia: 'Four Kenyans Killed' in Action By Rebels
RNW Africa, 3 December 2011
The Kenyan army said on Saturday it had lost four troops killed in action against Somalia's Shebab Islamist rebels while 10 had been hospitalised with wounds since it launched its… Read more »
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Somalia: Conflict Now Major Cause for Displacement , Says UN Refugee Agency
UN News, 29 November 2011
Insecurity and conflict due to insurgency is now one of the main causes for displacement in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, the United Nations refugee agency said today, warning that… Read more »
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Somalia: Ethiopia Opens Additional Camp for Somali Refugees - UN Agency
UN News, 2 December 2011
Hundreds of refugees in southern Ethiopia have been relocated from an overcrowded transit centre to a new camp, the fifth one in the area for Somalis fleeing conflict and drought… Read more »
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Somalia: Ethiopia Opens New Camp for Somali Refugees
UNHCR, 2 December 2011
Hundreds of Somali refugees in southern Ethiopia's Dollo Ado region have been relocated from an overcrowded transit centre to a new camp, Bur Amino. Read more »
