Somali authorities impose curfew as killings mount
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Somali authorities have announced plans to impose a curfew on the capital, where at least five people were killed on Thursday in the latest violence to undermine government attempts to restore law.
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Somali police shot and killed two civilians after attackers hurled a hand grenade at a police station, witnesses said. No officers were hurt.
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Pakistani authorities imposed a curfew around a mosque in the capital on Wednesday after 11 people were killed in clashes with security forces, and militant Islamic students were ordered to lay down their weapons.
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Kenyan police tore through a Nairobi slum yesterday, shooting dead at least 11 people in the third day of a crackdown on a stronghold of the Mungiki criminal gang blamed for a wave of beheadings, witnesses said.
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Extremists in Somalia threatened to carry out suicide attacks against African Union peacekeepers who are to begin deploying in the coming days, and the capital's international airport came under mortar fire Thursday.
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Mortar attacks in a residential area and on a hotel in the Somali capital killed five people and injured 10 on Saturday, witnesses said, a day after a previously unknown pro-Islamist group warned it would step up violence.
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Gunmen shoot dead two officials appointed by the transitional government in the Somali capital.
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People flee areas attacked in the Somali capital as moves to deploy peacekeepers are stepped up.
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At least two people are reportedly killed during fighting in the Somali capital, as peace talks are due to start.
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Extremists in Somalia threatened to carry out suicide attacks against African Union peacekeepers who are to begin deploying in the coming days, as gunmen fatally shot two local government officials in the capital.
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Fighting killed at least four people in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday as Islamist-led rebels attacked government troops and their Ethiopian allies.
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MONROVIA : The Liberian capital was again under curfew afternoon for the second day after riots that left five dead, sparked by what many believe are a reprise of ethnic tensions in the war-weary west African state.
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A mother and her three children are among 12 dead as mortars are fired in the Somali capital, witnesses say.
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The Liberian capital Monrovia was under curfew after citywide riots killed at least five people two days before the end of a UN disarmament effort, provoking fears of a return to conflict in the west African state.
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At least 12 people were killed and dozens wounded in heavy fighting in the Somali capital on Thursday in the latest confrontations between Ethiopian troops and Islamist-led insurgents, witnesses said.
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At least 15 people were killed and dozens wounded in clashes in volatile southern Somalia, one warring group and media reports said on Friday, deepening a political crisis in a country trying to form a new government.
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Residents of a southern Somalia town who do not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an Islamic courts official said Wednesday, adding the edict will be implemented in three days.