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South Africa: Somalis feel the heat of delivery protests
JOHANNESBURG, 18 May 2007 (IRIN) - More than 20 people have been arrested after shops reportedly belonging to Somali nationals were torched during wee...
Read More »Ethiopian Miltary Burns Down the town of Laasdoole
May 17, 2007 Reports reaching our service desk from Ogaden confirm the burning down of the entire town of Laasdoole by a contingent of Ethiopian milit...
Read More »Ethiopia releases Swedish 'terror suspects'
Ethiopia has released three Swedish citizens detained for several months on suspicion of terrorism, according to a spokeswoman at Sweden's Ministry fo...
Read More »Somaliland: The little micro-nation that could
When Aden Ismail flies home to Somaliland, a breakaway republic in northern Somalia, the low whine of the plane's engines triggers flashbacks to the d...
Read More »Kenya: 'Miraa' And Title Deed Factors to Influence Race
Nairobi (Daily Nation) - Igembe, represented by Tourism Assistant minister Raphael Muriungi, is a constituency where poverty and underdevelopment thri...
Read More »Uganda: Wounded UPDF Named
Nairobi, Kenya (New Vision) - SIX UPDF peace-keepers injured in a bomb blast in Somalia are recovering at Nairobi hospital. Uganda's military attache ...
Read More »Somalia releases 130 fisherman
Nairobi - A group of 130 mainly Yemeni fishermen arrested by authorities off Somalia's breakaway northern region of Puntland more than two weeks ago h...
Read More »12 Chinese on fishing vessel hijacked off Somalia
A Taiwan fishing vessel hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia on Wednesday has four Taiwanese sailors and eight workers from the Chinese mainla...
Read More »Situation Report No. 39 – 18 May, 2007
There was sporadic violence in Mogadishu this week. In the latest targeted assassination, the District Commissioner (DC) of Huriwa neighborhood in nor...
Read More »UN increases food deliveries in Somalia amid piracy
18 May 2007 – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today began a distribution of food to 122,500 Somalis affected by violence while warning...
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