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Press freedom watchdog condemns media attacks in Somalia
NAIROBI, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- A global press freedom watchdog Thursday condemned the latest attacks on media in Somalia which included closing a radio ...
Read More »Polio case spurs immunisation campaign
NAIROBI, 19 Oct 2006 (IRIN) - A polio immunisation campaign scheduled for early November has gained urgency with the identification of a case of the p...
Read More »Hear Our Voices – a refugee’s struggle for survival
DADAAB, 19 Oct 2006 (IRIN) - The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, is expanding camps in this arid area of northeastern Kenya to accommodate the d...
Read More »Ethiopia says military in Somalia
Ethiopia's prime minister has for the first time admitted to having soldiers inside Somalia....
Read More »Somaliland president pardons 600 prisoners
Hargeisa, Oct. 18 (Reuters) - President Dahir Rayale Kahin of Somalia's self-declared breakaway republic of Somaliland has pardoned 600 prisoners to c...
Read More »Former militia find new purpose
MOGADISHU, 17 Oct 2006 (IRIN) - At Hiilweyne military training camp, north of the capital, Mogadishu, Ali Mohamed Abdi recants his sins. Until a few m...
Read More »Islamists say seize battlewagons from Somali militia
KISMAYU, Somalia (Reuters) - Troops loyal to powerful Somali Islamists have seized trucks mounted with machine guns and anti-aircraft rockets from riv...
Read More »Will Somalia be the final battle between Islam and the West?
A crisis that could turn out to be bigger than the Congo imbroglio and do greater damage to the wider Eastern African region, is brewing in Somalia....
Read More »Magan Daahir oo lagu sharfay in uu furo Ciyaarihii Cuuryaamiinta Dunida ee Holland lagu qabtay
Indhawaalaba waxaan maqleynay in Magaca Soomaaliyeed uu dhinaca Isboortiga hoos uga sii dhacayay tan iyo wixii ka dambeeyay markii ay bur burtay dowla...
Read More »Somali refugees face strains of camp life
HAGADERA REFUGEE CAMP, Kenya (Reuters) - Quoting a Somali proverb, Dahir Mohamed Ali describes how long-time refugees living in Kenya fear they will b...
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