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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
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Somalia: More than 20,000 Africans have fled across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen this year, twice as many as during the same period in 2007, an aid agency has said. |
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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
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Kiev: Somali pirates who have taken over a German dry cargo vessel have threatened to kill the crew unless they receive a ransom for the sailors' release, a Ukrainian TV channel reported Friday. |
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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
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Addis Ababa: Ethiopian military this week killed at least 71 Islamist insurgents in deadly clashes in central Somalia, the defence ministry said in a statement on Thursday. |
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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
Somalia: The foreign aid Somalia gets to rebuild the country and keep the peace in the Horn of Africa is often siphoned off to clan militias.
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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
Somalia: A couple from Germany who were kidnapped in the Gulf of Aden by Somali pirates last month are being treated well, but the husband has diabetes and is running low on medicines, a human rights defender who visited the hostages said.
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
Somalia: Heavy fighting between Ethiopian troops and the Islamic courts union fighters has broken out close to Beledweyne town the provincial capital of Hiran region in central Somalia Thursday residents said.
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
Somalia: Al Qaeda is re-emerging in strength in three different safe havens to conduct training, operational planning and recruiting – Pakistan, Somalia and Algeria – The Times quoted Western intelligence and defence sources in its recent report.
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
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Somalia: Talks on the ransom for the crew of a German freighter hijacked by pirates in coastal waters of Somalia at the end of last month have been completed. |
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
Somalia: The regional government of Puntland, in northern Somalia, has adopted a newly unveiled constitution which has already stirred political controversy and contributed to worsening relations between the administration and the parliament, sources said.
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
Toronto: A former Toronto resident who joined an Islamic insurgency in Mogadishu has been killed during violent clashes in Somalia.
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
Somalia: The Union of Islamic Courts fighters have captured two Somali military bases in South Mogadishu, killing more than twelve soldiers.
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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Somalia: Heavy fighting in Somalia has left at least 47 people dead and more that a hundred injured, officials and residents have said. |
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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Somalia: US ambassador to Ethiopia, Donald Yamamoto, says the United States recognizes Ethiopia's contribution in various peacekeeping operations in the region and other areas of conflict in Africa. |
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 |
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Nairobi: The Kenyan government has called on the international community to stabilize neighboring Somalia which it said is the source of illicit weapons threatening the stability of the entire region. |
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