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No new AU troops for Somalia: AU chairman
Ghanaian President and current African Union (AU) Chairman John Agyekum Kufuor on Tuesday rubbished reports that the AU would be sending additional pe...
Read More »Genuine reconciliation: the missing link
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...
Read More »Bintow Hassan, "I don't see any future here"
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...
Read More »More AU troops heading for Somalia
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...
Read More »Landmine blast wounds 4 Somali policemen - officer
MOGADISHU, May 7 (Reuters) - Four policemen were wounded on Monday in the first major attack in the Somali capital Mogadishu since fighting ended last...
Read More »Many Somali Displaced in No Rush to Return to Mogadishu
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...
Read More »Two children killed in Mogadishu bomb
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...
Read More »Somalis: police truck explodes
Mogadishu (AP) - A police pickup truck exploded in the capital of Somalia Monday, wounding at least five policemen, witnesses said....
Read More »UN agency decries squalor in Somali IDP camps
Nairobi, Kenya (Angola Press) - Although guns have temporarily gone silent in the anarchic Somali capital Mogadishu, assistant High Commissioner for O...
Read More »K’naan with the Marleys: A young lion on the rise
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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