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Somali president in Ethiopia to discuss security situation
BAIDOA, Oct 16, 2006 (AP) — Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf is visiting Ethiopia, a senior official said Monday, a day after residents in a souther...
Read More »Armed standoff in Somali government seat
BAIDOA, Somalia (AFP) - Heavily armed militiamen surrounded the home of the commander of Somalia's police force Monday, officials said, underscoring ...
Read More »Mogadishu radio station shut down
NAIROBI, 16 Oct 2006 (IRIN) - The Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), which controls the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and much of the country's south-central...
Read More »Somali PM replaces three ministers
Prime Minister of Somalia's transitional federal government Ali Muhammad Gedi has sacked two ministers from his newly-appointed cabinet and accepted a...
Read More »Somalia's speaker quits role in talks with Islamists
Somalia's parliamentary speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan has given up his role as the government's chief negotiator at talks with rival Islamists, a ...
Read More »Forgotten refugees suffer neglect in Somalia
More than a decade after they fled fighting for the presumed safety of Mogadishu, thousands live in camps beset by violence that has scared off even a...
Read More »Somali group plans disarmament
A Somali Islamist group has announced plans to disarm the rest of the country's population....
Read More »Courts divided in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia - The public execution was set for 9 a.m., and thousands of men, women and children raced toward a sandy dune where the previous go...
Read More »South Africa: 'We all get called Baraka here'
'Baraka, give me two onions,' came the confident voice of the diminutive figure standing on the step....
Read More »Militant may link Somalia, al-Qaida
NAIROBI, Kenya — The shadowy military commander of the Islamic movement that is advancing across southern Somalia has begun to go public, and he’s...
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