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Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra reports from the refugee camps of Yemen on the people fleeing the fighting in Somalia.

Last year more than 100,000 people made the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen in order to flee the fighting in Somalia - according to the figures given by the ‘Yemen Observer’.

This year 32,000 others have joined them in order to escape too. However it is estimated that one in 20 did not survive the trip.

Amnesty International issued a warning in a new report that 90,000 children could die in Somalia in the coming months.

Protests against soaring food prices in Somalia have taken a deadly turn.

At least five demonstrators are reported to have been killed when security forces opened fire on crowds in the capital Mogadishu.

Tens of thousands have been on the streets, with many angered by traders who won’t accept their cash, amid fears of a flood of counterfeit notes.

All this as the United Nations warns that Somalia is facing famine.

Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow reports from Mogadishu.

Islamic fighters battling the Somali government have promised revenge attacks after a US airstrike killed one of their top commanders. They have also warned foreigners to stay away from the country and say they could now pullout of UN-sponsored peace talks due to start a week from now. Al Jazeera has obtained exclusive pictures from the capital, Mogadishu. Yvonne Ndege reports.

Heavy sporadic fighting is continuing between Somali government forces and fighters from the Islamic Courts Movement across Somalia.

Much of the country is now lawless, and while the media is banned, those being forced to flee give a sense of what is going on.

Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow travelled to the Kenya-Somalia border where, for the first time in more than a year, the crossing was briefly reopened.

For more than ten years, many people from Ethiopia’s eastern Ogaden region have been battling for an autonomous state.

It is a hidden war that has seen many women take up arms.

Al Jazeera was given exclusive access to Ogaden. 

Mohammed Adow has more on the fighters from the Ogaden National Liberation Front.