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Floods Raise Risk of Livestock Disease
Humanitarian efforts continue in the Horn of Africa, where floods in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia have affected more than one million people. Humanitar...
Read More »Unidentified birds raise avian flu fears
NAIROBI, 23 Nov 2006 (IRIN) - Dozens of unidentified birds have been found dead in a village in the Middle Shabelle region, south-central Somalia, rai...
Read More »Ethiopia Preparing for War With Somali Islamists, Zenawi Says
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia is preparing for war with Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts following a series of provocative acts by the militia, Pri...
Read More »Hopes, Hurdles for Ex-Marine Vying to Become a Kenyan Lawmaker
Minneapolis, MN (HOL) - Ex-Marine Mohamed Abdi focused on Congressman-elect Keith Ellison’s campaign for the past several months, all the while mak...
Read More »Refugees head for higher ground after floods
NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) - Thousands of Somali refugees made homeless by raging waters at United Nations camps in flood-hit north-east Kenya have begun tr...
Read More »Somali Islamists flog over 100 for watching movies
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AFP) - Religious police Tuesday raided cinema halls in a southern Somalia town and arrested and flogged more than 100 people for w...
Read More »Background checks stalled grandmother's application
Fadumo Dirir wasn't troubled to be at the end of a line of more than 1,000 immigrants slowly making their way into Golden Hall yesterday to take the o...
Read More »Somalia's Islamic Group Guarantees Safety Of Aid Workers
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP)--Somalia's Islamic movement said Wednesday it will guarantee the safety of aid workers responding to catastrophic floods in th...
Read More »First President of Djibouti, Hassan Gouled Aptidon, dies at age 90
DJIBOUTI CITY, Djibouti- Hassan Gouled Aptidon, the first President of the Republic of Djibouti, died Tuesday. He was 90 years old....
Read More »Seattle convict who espoused radical views flees to Somalia
SEATTLE -- A south Seattle barbershop worker who allegedly espoused radical Islamic views fled to Somalia rather than show up in federal court to be s...
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