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  2. The True Story Behind Surviving Black Hawk Down - AOL

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    Americans watching TV news on the homefront in 1993 saw mostly footage of Somalis doing the attacking. But Surviving Black Hawk Down sheds light on the immense suffering that Somali civilians ...

  3. History of Somalia - Wikipedia

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    News of the incident that sparked the Dervish rebellion and the 21 years disturbance according to the consul-general James Hayes Sadler was spread by Sultan Nur of the Habr Yunis. The incident in question was that of a group of Somali children that were converted to Christianity and adopted by the French Catholic Mission at Berbera in 1899.

  4. Islamic State insurgency in Puntland - Wikipedia

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    This was the first town Islamic State had taken control of in Somalia, the first notable expansion of their influence beyond their usual mountainous hideouts. [ 36 ] The takeover led to the displacement of over 25,700 civilians and the humanitarian impact of the conflict.

  5. Somaliland campaign - Wikipedia

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    The Somaliland campaign, also called the Anglo-Somali War or the Dervish rebellion, was a series of military expeditions that took place between 1900 and 1920 in modern-day Somaliland. The British were assisted in their offensives by the Ethiopian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy .

  6. Fighting between central Somalia clans kills at least 55 ...

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    A violent clash over the weekend between two clans in central Somalia has killed at least 55 people and injured another 155, residents and medical officials said on Monday. Somalia's federal ...

  7. Once-in-a-century flooding swamps Somalia after historic ...

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    The United Nations has described floods that uprooted hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia and neighbouring countries in East Africa following a historic drought as a once-in-a-century event.

  8. Somalia - Wikipedia

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    Somalia has the longest coastline on Africa's mainland. [15] Somalia has an estimated population of 18.1 million, [16] [17] [18] of which 2.7 million live in the capital and largest city, Mogadishu. Around 85% of Somalia's residents are ethnic Somalis; the official languages of the country are Somali and Arabic, though Somali is the primary ...

  9. US orders airstrikes against ISIS targets in Somalia - AOL

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    The United States used manned fighter jets to conduct an airstrike against Islamic State targets in Somalia on Saturday, three U.S. officials told ABC News on Saturday. President Donald Trump and ...