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Social issues not extremism the problem facing Somalis in Australia
MARK COLVIN: The Somali community in Melbourne has decided to shut out the media after a fortnight of negative publicity about the pressures facing th...
Read More »Fighting returns after Somali government claims victory over insurgents
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Resident's of Somalia's shattered capital began returning home Friday, following the government's claim of victory after nine da...
Read More »Relief supplies start reaching displaced, capital becoming ghost town
UNHCR and its partners have completed a first round of distribution of urgently-needed relief supplies in the Somali region of Afgooye, some 30 kilome...
Read More »Looting breaks out during lull in Mogadishu fighting
MOGADISHU, April 27 (Reuters) - Gunmen plundered computers and bags of sugar from a Coca Cola plant in Mogadishu on Friday during a lull in fighting b...
Read More »Arrested Somalis say khat is just a piece of their heritage
Jama Absiya's wife thought he'd killed someone. Why else would armed federal agents be pounding on their door at 6:30 on a Wednesday morning?...
Read More »Ethiopians launch new attacks in Mogadishu
The fighting in Somalia's ruined capital worsened still further yesterday as Ethiopian troops launched a new offensive against areas held by insurgent...
Read More »Calls For World’s Assistance To Somalia
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his grave concern about the intensified violence in Somalia, and called on the world to step...
Read More »Ethiopia Finds Itself Ensnared in Somalia
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Four months after Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi declared his own "war on terror" against an Islamic movement in Somal...
Read More »3 charged with smuggling khat through Ottawa airport
An airport worker and two other men have been arrested and charged with smuggling the drug khat into Canada through Ottawa International Airport....
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