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Eritrea snubs UN peace calls
Eritrea dismissed on Wednesday UN calls to resolve its border deadlock with arch-foe Ethiopia, and once again blamed the world body and the United Sta...
Read More »Somalia police destroy shops to boost security
"The campaign is aimed at ending illegal businesses built on the streets to help police perform security patrols and to revive the lost image of the c...
Read More »Somalia forces veil ban
Mogadishu - Somali security forces are seizing and even burning Muslim women's veils to stop militant insurgents from disguising themselves for attack...
Read More »Open Letter to the Somaliland President
Today we were confronted by our sister and given the tragic news that our mother, Mrs. Shune Hersi Gelleh has been arrested for no particular reason e...
Read More »Analyst Says Somali Reconciliation Conference Must Include Hardliners
AU Chairman John Kufuor is downplaying his statement of Monday that the African Union would be sending an additional 8-thousand peacekeepers to Somali...
Read More »WFP STARTS FOOD DISTRIBUTIONS IN BATTLE-SCARRED MOGADISHU
MOGADISHU (WFP) – The United Nations World Food Programme said today that the first distributions of WFP food assistance had started in Mogadishu to...
Read More »Ethiopia: Locust threat in the east
ADDIS ABABA (IRIN) - A swarm of locusts is likely to infest the eastern part of Ethiopia in mid-June, the Desert Locust Control Organization for Easte...
Read More »Cameroon airliner black box found
Rescuers in Cameroon say they have retrieved the flight data recorder from the Kenya Airways plane that crashed in a mangrove swamp on Saturday...
Read More »Somali cab driver is stabbed to death
A minicab driver who fled war-torn Somalia for a new life in London has been stabbed to death....
Read More »Red Cross urges increase in funding for conflict-ridden Somalia
Nairobi - The Red Cross appealed for more cash to war-torn Somalia Tuesday as the UN began delivering food aid to its bullet-scarred capital Mogadishu...
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