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71 Somali insurgents killed in fresh clashes

afrol News - Ethiopian troops have allegedly killed 71 Islamists insurgents in central Somalia in deadly clashes this week, a defense ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

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39 killed in deadliest Somali clash

afrol News - At least 39 people have been killed and dozens more injured as Islamist insurgents clashed with Somali and Ethiopian forces in the country's capital, Mogadishu and Mataban, central Somalia, a government official has confirmed.

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Soul mates: The price of being gay in Somalia

afrol News - Afdhere Jama talks to a Somali gay couple that has staid together since their childhood in Mogadishu in the 1980s. Abdulle and Sakariye escaped the marriages arranged by their parents and sought freedom in the "liberal" town of Shalaamboot. But "freedom" came at a higher price than the young couple expected.

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