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Somalia boosts Mogadishu security amid public scepticism
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somalia's armed forces, backed by Ethiopian soldiers, may have taken Mogadishu from Islamist rebels, but the capital remains far fro...
Read More »Kenya Airways plane still missing
Kenya Airways flight KQ 507 is still missing fourteen hours after it went off the radar, the airline Chief Executive Mr Titus Naikuni has said....
Read More »French palace denies Djibouti crime investigators
PARIS, France (Reuters) -- Officials at France's presidential palace rebuffed two judges Wednesday who tried to enter and search in an inquiry related...
Read More »Italy's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs to visit Somalia
Rome (AGI) - The Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Patrizia Sentinelli, will go, within the next days, in Somalia and in Ethiopia to discuss about the...
Read More »U.S. Gives Kenya Aid to Fight Terrorism
NAIROBI, Kenya -- The United States said Friday it will provide more than $14 million in security assistance to Kenya to boost efforts to combat terro...
Read More »Guantanamo inmate 'only fought Ethiopians'
A SOMALI prisoner at Guantanamo Bay denied having ties to al-Qaeda but said he fought Ethiopian soldiers in his homeland and had the right to do so, a...
Read More »Islamists surrender weapons to UPDF
Kampala, Uganda (Daily Monitor) - SOMALI fighters who took up arms against the interim government backed by Ethiopian troops in recent battles began s...
Read More »War-related price hikes hit displaced
NAIROBI, 3 May 2007 (IRIN) - The fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, which resulted in huge numbers of displaced people, has led to increases o...
Read More »WFP welcomes Turkish donation for DPRK and Djibouti
ROME - The United Nations World Food Programme today welcomed a US$300,000 contribution from Turkey, towards its operations in North Korea (DPRK) and ...
Read More »Germany gives 1.5 million euros to Somalia
BERLIN (Deutsche Welle) - Germany is to provide an additional 1.5 million euros to humanitarian organisations working in Somalia....
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