VIDEO: Somali town captured from al-Shabab

A key stronghold of al-Shabab Islamists has been captured by Somali government troops backed by African Union forces, local officials say.

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10 years ago

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VIDEO: Somali PM: 'Al-Shabab amnesty working'

Somalia's prime minister says members of the Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabab are responding to a government amnesty and have defected from the organisation.

 

10 years ago

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Nigeria border town 'captured'

Islamist militants in Nigeria capture a border town near Cameroon, witnesses say, amid a warning that the country could be breaking up like Iraq.

 

11 years ago

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Al-Shabab assassinates Somali MP

Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab kills a prominent MP and his bodyguard in a drive-by shooting in the capital, Mogadishu.

 

10 years ago

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Al-Shabab gunmen kill Somali MP

A Somali member of parliament is shot dead by al-Shabab militants in Mogadishu as lawmakers gather to vote on a new cabinet.

 

10 years ago

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Al-Shabab attacks Somali military base

Al-Shabab militants kill at least five soldiers in an overnight attack on an army base in the southern Somali port of Kismayo, local officials tell the BBC.

 

11 years ago

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Somali militants attack siege town

At least two international peacekeepers are killed in an Islamist militant attack on a town in central Somalia which has been under siege since March.

 

10 years ago

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Somali troops capture key port town

Somali government troops backed by African Union forces have captured a major stronghold of al-Shabab Islamists.

 

10 years ago

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VIDEO: Xenophobic attack captured on camera

James Oatway, a South African photojournalist, witnessed the killing of a Mozambican man. He tells the BBC's Southern Africa Correspondent Karen Allen how he tried to save the man.

 

10 years ago

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VIDEO: Chimp culture captured on camera

Researchers capture the social spread of a new type of tool use in a wild population of chimps in Uganda for the first time.

 

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