Somali pirates create a secret logistic-financial substructure<br/>

First limited US, Russian steps to combat Somali piracy<br/>

Five suicide bomb attacks leave 28 dead in Somalia and breakaway region

Eritrean, Ethiopian rebel Oromo and Arab fighters taken prisoner in battles to oust Islamists from Somalia<br/>

Ethiopia's intervention this week to save the weak Somali government from defeat at the hands of Islamist rebels is typical of the apparently incompatible foreign, sectarian, religious and tribal elements involved in its neighbor's civil war. <br/>Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi says his forces have killed up to ...</br/>