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Norfolk ship may be near hijacked vessel

FEB 27, 2007

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somali authorities have arrested four suspects in the hijacking of a U.N.-chartered cargo ship delivering food aid this morning,...

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AU team in Somalia ahead of troop deployment: official

FEB 27, 2007

MOGADISHU (AFP) - African Union representatives are in Mogadishu laying the groundwork for an anticipated peacekeeping mission of some 8,000 troops to...

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Somali police arrest four ship hijackers –UN

FEB 27, 2007

Somali authorities have arrested four men they said were members of a gang of pirates who hijacked a ship chartered to carry U.N. food aid and are sti...

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Radio and TV Djibouti - Journal en Somali feb 26, 2007

FEB 26, 2007

Radio and TV Djibouti - Journal en Somali feb 26, 2007...

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ICRC counts cost to civilians

FEB 26, 2007

NAIROBI, 26 February 2007 (IRIN) - More than 430 people have been admitted to two of Mogadishu's three hospitals with wounds sustained in the rampant ...

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Ugandan troops in Somalia this week: Somali president

FEB 26, 2007

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed on Monday said a deployment of Ugandan troops to Somalia, the first members of an 8,000-str...

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Telling Somali Women's Stories

FEB 26, 2007

The powerful theater piece is based on the stories, songs and oral histories of women refugees who fled the deadly civil war in Somalia, spent years i...

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Police officer among injured in Somali attack

FEB 26, 2007

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - An unidentified man hurled an explosive device at a fuel-seller's stall in the north of the Somali capital and injured at le...

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Somali president warns of violence in Horn of Africa

FEB 26, 2007

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Violence in Somalia could spill over into the greater Horn of Africa region if the government does not receive urgent help in ...

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