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Astral resumes Somalia services
CARGO airline Astral Aviation, from Kenya, has resumed charters into war-torn Somalia with effect from 1 June 2007. The decision to resume charters in...
Read More »Somali troops briefly seize port in pay row
Kismayu, Somalia (Reuters) - Several hundred Somali soldiers briefly seized the southern port of Kismayu in a protest over unpaid salaries in the late...
Read More »Somali troops briefly seize port in pay row
Kismayu, Somalia (Reuters) - Several hundred Somali soldiers briefly seized the southern port of Kismayu in a protest over unpaid salaries in the late...
Read More »Somalia: Ambiya Abdi Hussein: "We have safety but nothing else"
GALKAYO, 31 May 2007 (IRIN) - Ambiya Abdi Hussein, a mother of seven, was first displaced from her home in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia at the...
Read More »Somali rappers rage against the regime
Upon entering a tiny recording studio in a grimy Nairobi building, Felis removes her face veil, slides headphones onto her ears and starts singing in ...
Read More »African Union seeks NATO airlift for Somalia
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO allies are studying a request from the African Union to provide air transport for its troops in Somalia, an alliance officia...
Read More »A Desperate Voyage of Hope and Peril
BIR ALI, Yemen -- The journey from Somalia ends and begins anew in Bir Ali. Along the Yemeni coast near this ramshackle fishing village, where white s...
Read More »A Desperate Voyage of Hope and Peril (2)
BIR ALI, Yemen -- The journey from Somalia ends and begins anew in Bir Ali. Along the Yemeni coast near this ramshackle fishing village, where white s...
Read More »A Desperate Voyage of Hope and Peril
BIR ALI, Yemen -- The journey from Somalia ends and begins anew in Bir Ali. Along the Yemeni coast near this ramshackle fishing village, where white s...
Read More »A Woman of Distinction
On 25 May 2007, Dr Madina Wasuge of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, was honored with a Women of Distinction award for the significant contribution she made...
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