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A #Mogadiscio, la difficile reconstruction après 25 ans de chaos
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/311216/mogadiscio-la-difficile-reconstruction-apres-25-ans-de-chaos

Mogadiscio n’est plus sur la ligne de front, même si la menace terroriste d’Al-Shebab, affilié à Al-Qaïda, demeure. Des habitants de la capitale somalienne reprennent espoir. Des Somaliens de la diaspora reviennent pour reconstruire le pays. Fragile répit alors que la capitale croule sous l’afflux de #réfugiés.

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#Somalia's Shebab in major attack on presidential palace
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/18727

Somalia’s #al-Shebab rebels launched a major suicide commando attack on Friday against the heavily-fortified presidential palace, home to the country’s internationally-backed government, police and witnesses said. A huge car bomb exploded at the perimeter of the central Mogadishu complex, and a group of around a dozen suicide attackers breached the Villa Somalia compound. Shebab rebels immediately claimed responsibility. read more

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US drone kills three in #Somalia
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/us-drone-kills-three-somalia

A US drone killed an alleged suicide bomb-maker for Somalia’s Shebab rebels and two other people, government officials said Tuesday. Residents near the site of the strike in southern Somalia reported at least three people were in the charred vehicle, which burst into flames shortly after the sound of an aircraft was heard overheard. Somali Interior Minister Abdikarin Hussein Guled told government radio that his intelligence services had been tracking Ibrahim Ali Abdi, also known as (...)

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#al-Shebab threatens #Kenya with new attacks
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/al-shebab-threatens-kenya-new-attacks

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Kenyan mourners comfort each other during a prayer service held at St. Andrews Church in Nairobi on 26 September 2013. (Photo: AFP - Georgina Goodwin)

#Somalia's al-Shebab militant group on Friday threatened fresh attacks against Kenya, as police scoured the smoking rubble in Nairobi’s Westgate mall devastated by their assault for bodies and clues. The al-Qaeda linked Shebab gloated at the massacre of at least 67 people in the mall, which saw a group of gunmen storm (...)

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#al-Shebab claims 137 hostages were killed in Kenyan mall siege
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/al-shebab-claims-137-hostages-were-killed-kenyan-mall-siege

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Kenyan paramilitaries drive towards the Westgate mall on 24 September 2013 in Nairobi. (Photo: AFP Simon Maina)

Somalia’s al-Shebab insurgents claimed Wednesday 137 hostages they had seized died in a Nairobi shopping mall siege, figures impossible to verify and higher than the number of people officially registered as missing. The al-Qaeda-linked fighters, in a message posted on Twitter, said “137 hostages who were being held by the mujahideen” had died. They also (...)

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#Kenya's president declares end to deadly mall siege
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/kenyas-president-declares-end-deadly-mall-siege

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Kenyan soldiers clear on 24 September 2013 the top floor balcony and interior of the Westgate mall in Nairobi. (Photo: AFP - Carl de Souza)

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta announced Tuesday that a four-day siege by Islamist gunmen of a Nairobi shopping mall was over, with the “immense” loss of 61 civilians and six members of the security forces. “We have ashamed and defeated our attackers, that part of our task is completed,” a somber Kenyatta, who himself lost (...)

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Shebab says still holding hostages in #Kenya standoff
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/shebab-says-still-holding-hostages-kenya-standoff

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Kenyan security personnel take cover behind a ledge on 23 September 2013 outside the besieged Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi following a loud explosion. (Photo: AFP - Tony Karumba)

Islamist Shebab fighters claimed Tuesday to still be holding hostages inside a Nairobi shopping mall, as they continued to battle special forces on the fourth day of a deadly siege. "The hostages who were being held by the mujahedeen inside Westgate are still alive, looking quite (...)

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Gunfire, explosions as #Kenya siege enters third day
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/gunfire-explosions-kenya-siege-enters-third-day

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An image grab taken from AFP TV shows two children and a woman taking cover behind a bar inside a shopping mall following an attack by Somali gunmen in Nairobi on 21 September 2013. (Photo: AFP - Nichole Sobecki)

Gunfire and explosions sounded on Monday from the Nairobi mall where militants from Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group threatened to kill hostages on the third day of a raid in which at least 69 have already died. Reuters journalists near the (...)

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At least 68 dead as #Kenya mall standoff continues
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/least-68-dead-kenya-mall-standoff-continues

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A severely wounded man is rescued by Kenyan troops at the Westgate Mall on 21 September 2013 in Nairobi. (Photo: AFP - James Quest)

Islamist militants were holding hostages on Sunday at a shopping mall in Nairobi, where at least 68 people were killed in an attack by the Somali #al-Shebab group, which demanded that Kenya pull troops back from its neighbor. Brief volleys of gunfire and a blast interrupted hours of stalemate. A Reuters correspondent saw security (...)

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Death toll reaches 59 in Islamist attack at Kenya mall
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/death-toll-reaches-59-islamist-attack-kenya-mall

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A Kenyan woman is helped to safety after masked gunmen stormed a shopping mall and sprayed gunfire on shoppers and staff on 21 September 2013 in Nairobi. (Photo: AFP - Maina)

The death toll in an attack on a upscale mall in Kenya has risen to 59 people and security forces are trying to ensure hostages come out safely, the interior minister said on Sunday, a day after the assault by Somali Islamist gunmen. Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku told reporters that the (...)

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