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No new AU troops for Somalia: AU chairman

MAY 08, 2007

Ghanaian President and current African Union (AU) Chairman John Agyekum Kufuor on Tuesday rubbished reports that the AU would be sending additional pe...

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Genuine reconciliation: the missing link

MAY 08, 2007

The Mogadishu carnage in April this year has again re-ignited the debate about atrocities, war crimes, and genocide that took place in Somalia, a deba...

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Bintow Hassan, "I don't see any future here"

MAY 07, 2007

MOGADISHU, 7 May 2007 (IRIN) - Bintow Hassan, a 40-year-old mother of six children, has been displaced for the second time in 15 years. First she fled...

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More AU troops heading for Somalia

MAY 07, 2007

The African Union (AU) announced on Monday it would send an extra 8 000 peacekeepers to Somalia but said dialogue remained the only solution to the bl...

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Landmine blast wounds 4 Somali policemen - officer

MAY 07, 2007

MOGADISHU, May 7 (Reuters) - Four policemen were wounded on Monday in the first major attack in the Somali capital Mogadishu since fighting ended last...

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Many Somali Displaced in No Rush to Return to Mogadishu

MAY 07, 2007

Many among the hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Somalia appear to be in no rush to return to the capital, Mogadishu. Aid agencies say Soma...

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Two children killed in Mogadishu bomb

MAY 07, 2007

MOGADISHU -- Two children died and seven people were wounded Monday when a bomb exploded under a police car near the presidential palace in Somalia's...

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Somalis: police truck explodes

MAY 07, 2007

Mogadishu (AP) - A police pickup truck exploded in the capital of Somalia Monday, wounding at least five policemen, witnesses said....

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UN agency decries squalor in Somali IDP camps

MAY 07, 2007

Nairobi, Kenya (Angola Press) - Although guns have temporarily gone silent in the anarchic Somali capital Mogadishu, assistant High Commissioner for O...

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K’naan with the Marleys: A young lion on the rise

MAY 07, 2007

Understand this — the Marleys are not ordinary human beings like you and me. Born into a lineage revered in many parts of the globe as a form of div...

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