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Somalia's speaker quits role in talks with Islamists
Somalia's parliamentary speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan has given up his role as the government's chief negotiator at talks with rival Islamists, a ...
Read More »Forgotten refugees suffer neglect in Somalia
More than a decade after they fled fighting for the presumed safety of Mogadishu, thousands live in camps beset by violence that has scared off even a...
Read More »Somali group plans disarmament
A Somali Islamist group has announced plans to disarm the rest of the country's population....
Read More »Courts divided in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia - The public execution was set for 9 a.m., and thousands of men, women and children raced toward a sandy dune where the previous go...
Read More »South Africa: 'We all get called Baraka here'
'Baraka, give me two onions,' came the confident voice of the diminutive figure standing on the step....
Read More »Militant may link Somalia, al-Qaida
NAIROBI, Kenya — The shadowy military commander of the Islamic movement that is advancing across southern Somalia has begun to go public, and he’s...
Read More »Fleeing Somalis wait to start refugee life in Kenya
LIBOI, Kenya, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Fearful of guns, 15-year-old Abdi Ali knew he had to flee to Kenya to avoid being recruited by powerful Somali Islami...
Read More »EXCLUSIVE-Islamists planning to rid Somalia of illegal guns
MOGADISHU, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamists plan to do what many believe to be impossible in a country synonymous with anarchy -- take the guns ...
Read More »4 Kids Killed in Refugee Family Violence
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Fatuma Amir and Said Biyad, members of a persecuted minority, came to the United States from Somalia to escape the violence in ...
Read More »Somalia's Islamic Radicals Repel Attack
KISMAYO, Somalia (AP) - Islamic radicals repulsed an attack by pro-government forces to recapture a vital seaport and on Saturday took control of a sy...
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