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Somali Lawmaker Inks Pact With Islamists
A Somali lawmaker bypassed the government and signed an agreement Saturday to end hostilities with the country's powerful Islamic militia, a symbolic ...
Read More »CANADA CONCERNED OVER SECURITY SITUATION IN SOMALIA
UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com, UN/ - 16 December 2006 -- The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of the Atlantic...
Read More »EU concerned about risk of war in Somalia
BRUSSELS, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) on Saturday expressed its "deepest concern" about the deteriorating security situation in Somali...
Read More »Somali Leader: Door to Peace Talks Shut
Somalia's president said Friday that peace talks with the country's Islamic movement are no longer an option because the group's leaders have declared...
Read More »U.S. says al Qaeda behind Somali Islamists
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali Islamists are under the growing control of an al Qaeda cell in East Africa, a U.S. diplomat said on Thursday, as Washington...
Read More »US Says el-Qaida Elements Running Somali Islamic Movement
The U.S. State Department's top diplomat for Africa says el-Qaida figures are now running the Islamic Courts movement which controls most of Somalia....
Read More »Somalia’s Islamists and Ethiopia Gird for a War
MOGADISHU, Somalia, — The stadium was packed, the guns were cocked and even the drenching rain could not douse the jihadist fire....
Read More »US Official Says Washington Aspires For End Of Somali Power Struggle
US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Welch said on Thursday that Washington wanted to see an end to the bloody power struggl...
Read More »Pair in court after exotic drugs found
Two people appeared in the Hamilton District Court yesterday charged with importing and possessing a drug police say has methamphetamine-like qualitie...
Read More »Eritrea calls emergency meeting on Somalia
Asmara - Eritrea is calling for an emergency east African meeting to discuss the situation in Somalia, where it and arch-foe Ethiopia have been accuse...
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