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Shabaab held a ceremony for hundreds of fighters who completed their military training. Pirates kidnapped four Americans. A US court sentenced a pirate to 33 years in jail.
Kidnap and ransom: negotiating lives for cash
Updated: Norwegian ship owner: 'Hang the pirates'
Government forces killed four anti-Shabaab demonstrators in Mogadishu while opening fire to disperse the crowd. Seven people were killed during fighting in Delow between Shabaab and government forces. Shabaab replaced Sheikh Ali Dhere, its spokesman in Mogadishu, with Sheikh Mohamed Hassan Omar Abu Rahman.
Three people were killed in a bombing in Mogadishu. Hundreds of Somalis held anti-Shabaab demonstrations in Mogadishu. A Danish warship captured a pirate mothership off the coast of Somalia.
A senior Shabaab official said that primary and secondary schools in lower Shabelle province must teach "jihad." Police displayed two captive Shabaab fighters to the media.
Eleven people were killed in fighting between Shabaab and Somali forces in Mogadishu. The prime minister said the military should prepare for an offensive to wipe out Shabaab. More than 15 Somaliland troops defected to Puntland after a "clan massacre" that killed 87 people.
Defection reveals foreigners' role in Somali war
Eighty-seven people were killed during fighting between Somaliland forces and local clans in Kalshale village in Puntland. Three people were killed in Mogadishu during fighting between Shabaab fighters and Somali and African Union forces.
Ten people were killed during clashes between government forces and clans in Buhodle in Somaliland. Shabaab chopped off the hand of a teenage boy for stealing. A Shabaab leader said government workers and African Union troops should be killed.
The US Embassy in Nairobi condemned the Somali parliament's extension of the Transitional Federal Government. Two people were killed during fighting in Mogadishu. A Somali official accused the World Food Program of selling aid to the hungry.
Somalia's toothless parliament votes itself another term
Denmark sentences cartoonist attacker to 9 years
Five people were killed during fighting between Shabaab and Alhu Sunnah Wal Jama'a in Guriel. Shabaab executed a teen-aged boy in Mudug. The government denied Shabaab claims that soldiers are removing women's niqabs.
WikiLeaks cables: British Muslims travelling to Somalia for 'jihadi tourism'
WikiLeaks cables: MI6 warns of new suicide bomb wave
Pirates based in Garad in Puntland have "relocated to Hobyo and El Dhanane." Three people were killed during infighting between Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama'a forces in Guriel. US diplomats warned Eritrea not to back Shabaab, according to a 2009 memo.
German shipowners turn to mercenaries to protect against pirates
Shabaab vowed to avenge the death of 20 Somalis killed yesterday during fighting among Somali troops. Puntland's security minister said Somaliland is attempting to provoke a war.
EU: Somali pirate gangs now torturing hostages
