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Smugglers of Somalis take new sea routes
DUBAI, 1 Feb 2007 (IRIN) - Smugglers carrying asylum seekers in fishing boats from Somalia have started taking new routes across the Gulf of Aden to Y...
Read More »Government calls for assistance to rehabilitate child soldiers
NAIROBI, 2 Feb 2007 (IRIN) - About 70,000 children have been conscripted into Somalia’s fighting factions, exposing them to attacks and separating t...
Read More »Islamic school for girls hit in worsening Somali violence
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- An explosion at an Islamic school for women and girls in Somalia's capital wounded at least seven people Friday, witnesses ...
Read More »Mortar attacks in Somalia's capital kill at least 7
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Mortar attacks in Somalia's capital killed at least seven people and injured 20 in the worst night of violence since the govern...
Read More »Minneapolis: Somali Professor Lambastes TFG, U.S. Position
Somalia was once Africa’s success story, but a combination of “balkanization” and a fatal social AIDS called “warlordism” reduced the countr...
Read More »Displaced Somalian families find new homes with UN assistance
Under an ambitious pilot programme in the northern Somalian port city of Bosaso, United Nations agencies, a non-governmental organization (NGO) and lo...
Read More »Burundi Proposes Offering Troops for Somalia, Uganda Parliament Stalls
Burundi has agreed to offer troops for the African Union peacekeeping initiative in Somalia. Meanwhile, Uganda's parliament is brushing aside attempts...
Read More »Sisters doing it for themselves
NAIROBI, 1 Feb 2007 (IRIN/PLUSNEWS) - Somali women are taking the initiative in the fight against AIDS with a programme to educate their peers in this...
Read More »Suspected cholera outbreak kills scores in Somalia
JOWHAR, Somalia (Reuters) - A suspected outbreak of cholera has killed up to 121 people in Somalia in the past week, hospital sources and local elders...
Read More »US-funded Voice of America broadcaster revives Somali service
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US-funded broadcaster Voice of America is reviving a Somali radio program for the Horn of Africa as it expands its service in a...
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