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Airport attack on new Somali force
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Mortars slammed into Mogadishu's airport Tuesday during a ceremony welcoming the arrival of peacekeepers. There was no imme...
Read More »First AU peacekeepers arrive in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Ugandan soldiers landed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, the first African Union peacekeepers to arrive in the city w...
Read More »Horn of Africa not safer without Somalia's Islamic militia, Djibouti president says
DJIBOUTI (AP) - The Horn of Africa is not safer now that a radical Islamic militia accused of having ties to al-Qaida has been driven from power in S...
Read More »African Union vows no meddling in Somali affairs
MOGADISHU (AFP) - An African Union delegation visiting Somalia ahead of the first deployment of Ugandan peacekeepers said Monday that the bloc did not...
Read More »Who Won the Showdown in Selma?
March 5, 2007 — Sunday's march in Selma, Ala., may have been a sacred commemoration of the "Bloody Sunday" civil rights march of 1965, but beneath i...
Read More »Minneapolis: Somalis swap news, views at 25th and Riverside
Yassin Issa lives in London, but when he first visited his wife and daughter in St. Paul last fall, he soon was drawn to a coffee shop at 25th and Riv...
Read More »NUSOJ Denounces Jail Sentences for Somaliland Journalists
The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) today powerfully denounces the jail sentences for four journalists of the Somaliland's daily independ...
Read More »Hunt deepens for kidnapped Europeans in Ethiopia
MEKELE, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Ethiopian security forces scoured a remote northeastern region on Monday in search of a group of kidnapped Europeans, all...
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