A chronology of key events

Key facts, figures and dates

The BBC's Samanthi Dissanayake looks at the influence of the UK's Somali community on life back home - and what that means for their life in Britain.

Pirate copies of the anti-mafia film Gomorra go on sale in the heartland of the Naples Camorra clan it depicts.

Italian police arrest another 88 alleged gangsters in the Naples area, in their ongoing crackdown on the Mafia.

Proposals to create eight all-in-one advice centres in Wales raise fears small, more local agencies, will lose out.

A local mafia clan is suspected of being behind the killings of six African immigrants in southern Italy, police say. Seven people are killed and two others are injured in two separate shootouts in southern Italy, police say.

A key suspect linked to mafia killings in Germany in 2007 is arrested in northern Italy, police say.

Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip say at least 11 people died in a gun battle with members of a powerful local clan.

Police in Italy arrest a member of a family allegedly linked to Mafia killings in the German city of Duisburg last year.

Israel reverses a decision to return 150 Fatah supporters to Gaza, saying the Palestinian men's lives were in danger

Palestinians let into Israel amid fighting between Hamas and Fatah factions are being returned to Gaza, Israel says.

Israel allows 180 members of a Gaza clan who had been fighting with militant group Hamas to enter its territory.

Nine people are killed in Gaza in fighting between the militant group Hamas and supporters of its rival, Fatah.

A leading member of one of the most notorious clans of the Naples mafia has been arrested while shopping in Rome.

An Italian court upholds life sentences for 16 members of one of the Naples mafia's most violent clans.

Many factions on many fronts are involved in Somalia's decades-long conflict, writes the BBC's Mark Doyle.

Gunmen storm a house in Saddam Hussein's native village in Iraq and shoot dead nine members of his clan.

Former BBC Chad correspondent Stephanie Hancock explains the background and potential consequences of the latest rebel assault on Chad's capital N'Djamena.

A man accused of leading the Janjaweed militia in Darfur is given a top Sudanese government post.