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Eritrea says US masking 'invasion' of Somalia with peacekeeping plan
ASMARA (AFP) - Eritrea has lashed out at the United States for allegedly masking an "invasion" of Somalia by backing a UN Security Council resolution ...
Read More »UN Readies $12 million Appeal for Somalia Flood Victims
Humanitarian operations continue in the Horn of Africa, where heavy rains and floods have hit parts of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia....
Read More »Red Cross estimates 723,000 people affected by floods
NAIROBI, 28 November (IRIN) - The number of people affected by floods in Kenya has risen to 723,000, the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) said on Tuesda...
Read More »Sending African troops into Somalia 'would trigger war'
A US-backed proposal to send African troops into Somalia to support the weak government raises the risk of triggering an all-out war with the Islamic ...
Read More »Islamists claim clash with Ethiopian troops in central Somalia
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somalia's powerful Islamist movement has claimed to have exchanged heavy artillery fire in central Somalia with forces from neighbor...
Read More »SOMALIA: Businessmen to hand over weapons
NAIROBI, 28 Nov 2006 (IRIN) - As another sign of improved security in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, the powerful business community has agreed to han...
Read More »Somalis try to eradicate ‘bad habit’ from Africa
For generations of eastern Africans, chewing the leaf of an indigenous plant was considered much like drinking a couple of cups of coffee....
Read More »media releases: SOMALIA CONFLICT
Nairobi/Brussels, 27 November 2006: The draft resolution the U.S. intends to present to the UN Security Council on 29 November could trigger all-out w...
Read More »Somalia's Islamic Movement Orders Weapons Ban In Country
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP)--Islamic leaders Monday ordered Somalis to hand in their weapons, but didn't say how they would enforce the directive in a hea...
Read More »Journalist who reported “massive” Ethiopian presence held by pro-government militias for three days
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the arrest and mistreatment of Abdullahi Yasin Jama of privately-owned Radio Warsan by militiamen loyal to t...
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