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Food Aid to Somalia Faces Danger by Land

FEB 28, 2007

Agencies delivering food aid to Somalia face more hazards in transporting their goods by land than they do by sea, an aid official told The Media Line...

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Faith, culture clash during hearing on airport taxi rules

FEB 28, 2007

The Metropolitan Airports Commission heard passionate arguments on all sides of the question during a public hearing Tuesday in Bloomington....

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U.S. lacks intelligence on Horn of Africa

FEB 28, 2007

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- The Horn of Africa doesn't get enough attention from intelligence agencies, even as the region rises as a source of terro...

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Cabbies, customers claim discrimination in airport dispute

FEB 28, 2007

Minneapolis — A public hearing convened Tuesday by the Metropolitan Airports Commission made it clear that a proposed ordinance to revoke licenses o...

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Somali parliament postpones anti-terror bill vote

FEB 28, 2007

BAIDOA, Somalia (AFP) - Somalia's interim parliament on Wednesday postponed a vote on an anti-terrorism bill which lays down the death penalty as puni...

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Burundi to send 1,700 peacekeepers to Somalia

FEB 28, 2007

BUJUMBURA (AFP) - Burundi said Wednesday that it will send 1,700 peacekeepers to Somalia as part of an 8,000-strong African Union force, while the fir...

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Radio and TV Djibouti - Journal en Somali feb 27, 2007

FEB 27, 2007

Radio and TV Djibouti - Journal en Somali feb 27, 2007...

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ETHIOPIA-ISRAEL: Waiting Falash Mura languish in squalor

FEB 27, 2007

TEL AVIV, 27 February 2007 (IRIN) - Thousands of Ethiopian former Jews have been waiting more than 10 years in disease-ridden camps in Ethiopia for th...

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Somali PM's brother-in-law shot dead in Mogadishu

FEB 27, 2007

MOGADISHU (AFP) - Gunmen in Mogadishu on Tuesday shot dead a brother-in-law of Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi in one of five killings in the p...

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Muslim cab drivers make their case in hearing

FEB 27, 2007

Metropolitan Airports Commission officials are meeting Tuesday in hopes of resolving a dispute that has pitted freedom of religious expression against...

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