Both sides often give conflicting accounts of battles
Al Shabab attack Somali army base
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Government forces have made a number of battlefield gains against al Shabab in the last three months
Al Shabab militants attack Somali military base
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The US has carried out dozens of drone strikes against extremists in Somalia in recent years
US military strikes al-Shabab extremists in Somalia
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Mogadishu attack
At least 100 killed in Mogadishu car bombings
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Somalia faces its worst drought in several decades
UN urges Shabab to allow humanitarian access to drought-hit Somalis
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Security forces from the southern Somali state of Jubaland later ended the siege
8 killed in militant attack on Somali port city hotel
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Drought brings famine near
Drought-hit Somalia on the brink of famine
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Somalia's military is supported by US troops and drones and an African Union peacekeeping mission
Somalia says it killed al Shabab co-founder
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A famine in 2011 in Somalia claimed more than a quarter of a million lives
UNICEF: More than 700 children have died in Somalia nutrition centres
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Aid funding has dropped more than 60% from the response to Somalia’s previous drought in 2017
UN warns 'famine is at the door' in Somalia
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Mohamud: Al-Shabab is like a deadly snake in your clothes
Somali president vows offensive against al-Shabab
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Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack
Somali forces end deadly hotel attack in Mogadishu
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The world has turned its back on Somalia to focus on Ukraine
Starving Somalis die as humanitarian aid redirected to Ukrainians
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African countries imported 44% of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine between 2018 and 2020
Africa bears the brunt of war in Ukraine amid food price hikes
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With Ukraine taking attention, aid and money slow to come to Somalia
Babies dying of hunger in drought-hit Somalia
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Somalia has been struggling to rebuild its institutions in the face of a brutal insurgency by Al Shabab
Somali lawmakers to pick country's new president May 15
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