| May 5, 2008 | - Tens of thousands of Somalis rioted in Mogadishu over the high cost of food.
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CNN
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| September 26, 2007 | - Protesters in Burma, which tied Somalia for the 2007 title of Transparency International's most corrupt nation, taunted soldiers in the country's largest anti-government demonstrations since 1988. “Fuck you, army,” jeered some protesters, “we only want democracy.” “May the people who beat monks be struck down by lightning,” implored others.
| Source 1:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
Source 2:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| May 9, 2007 | - Government soldiers in Mogadishu were confiscating and burning women's veils.
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BBC
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| January 11, 2007 | - U.S. air strikes in Somalia killed seven people. Somali officials believed the dead included Al Qaeda operative Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, reputed mastermind of the 1998 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, but U.S. officials said they were still chasing him.
| Source 1:
Yahoo! News
Source 2:
CBS News
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| November 19, 2006 | - Floods in the Horn of Africa had affected 1.8 million people; in Somalia crocodiles that washed into villages killed at least nine people.
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BBC News
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| July 21, 2006 | -
Somalia declared an “all out holy war” on Ethiopia.
| Source:
Somalinet.com via Google News
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| July 19, 2006 | -
Ethiopia denied reports that it had attacked Somalia.
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BBC
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| July 7, 2006 | - A sheikh in Mogadishu said that Muslims who do not pray five times a day should be put to death.
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Reuters
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| March 18, 2006 | - The U.S. Navy said that it had killed a pirate off the coast of Somalia.
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BBC News
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| February 16, 2006 | - People were dying of thirst in southern Somalia; some were walking up to 45 miles to find water.
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BBC News
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| February 10, 2006 | - Riots over blasphemous cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad broke out in India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Palestine, Thailand, the autonomous Somali region of Puntland, and Afghanistan—where 11 demonstrators were killed, at least 4 of them by NATO troops. A Taliban commander offered 100 kilograms of gold to anyone who killed those responsible for the cartoons. Other anti-Muhammad-cartoon protests were held in London and Philadelphia. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on newspapers to stop re-publishing the drawings, and U.S. President George W. Bush condemned the riots but also criticized publishers. "With freedom," said the President, "comes the responsibility to be thoughtful about others." An Iranian newspaper announced that it would publish cartoons mocking the Holocaust. Flemming Rose, the Danish newspaper editor who published the original caricatures of Muhammad, said that he'd like to re-publish the Holocaust cartoons and was subsequently put on leave by his boss. Danes were increasingly concerned that their country would be singled out for terrorist attacks. "We make fun of everything here," said a carpenter in Copenhagen. "One shouldn't take it so seriously."
| Source 1:
Arab News
Source 2:
Al Jazeera
Source 3:
BBC News
Source 4:
Channel 4
Source 5:
ReviewJournal.com
Source 6:
CBC News
Source 7:
Al Jazeera
Source 8:
ABC News Online
Source 9:
Bloomberg News
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| November 25, 2005 | -
Somalia's transitional government awarded U.S. firm Topcat Marine Security $50 million to fight pirates for two years.
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BBC News
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| November 5, 2005 | - Off the Somali coast, pirates fired a rocket launcher at a cruise ship filled with American and British tourists. The ship's crew scared the pirates off with loud noises, and no one was injured.
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BBC News
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| October 2, 2005 | -
Somali pirates relinquished a ship--filled with food intended for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami--that they had hijacked 98 days earlier.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 2, 2005 | - About 57,000 troops, many assigned to combat operations, entered the New Orleans area. “This place is going to look like Little
Somalia,” said a brigadier general.
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Army Times
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| February 27, 2005 | -
Somalia denounced plans to deploy foreign peacekeepers.
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BBC News
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| December 26, 2004 | - A 9.0 magnitude earthquake created a tsunami that ravaged south and southeast Asia, as well as parts of Africa. The wave reached from Somalia and Kenya to Malaysia. Thousands of fatalities were reported in the Maldives, Sri Lanka, South India, Thailand, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. Three-story waves washed sunbathers into the sea, carried away snorkelers, and swallowed up Hindu ritual bathers celebrating Full Moon Day. A prison in Sumatra was torn open by the tsunami, and hundreds of inmates fled. A baby was washed from her father's arms. At least 25,000 died, and millions were displaced. Entire towns were turned into rubble. Corpses hung from trees and fences, and the rotting bodies of humans and animals threatened to pollute water supplies. It was difficult to bury the dead for lack of dry ground. The earthquake was the largest since 1964, and slightly altered the rotation of the earth.
| Source 1:
New York Timesimes
Source 2:
Wikipedia
Source 3:
New York Timesimes
Source 4:
MSNBC
Source 5:
Reuters
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| January 30, 2004 | -
Somalia's warlords reached yet another peace deal.
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New York Times
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| October 29, 2002 | -
Warlords in Somalia signed a cease-fire agreement.
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| May 14, 2002 | -
The U.S. blocked a United Nations statement calling for a ban on the execution of children, a provision of the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, which only the United States and Somalia have failed to ratify.
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