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Somalia, Darfur crises loom over summit
Nairobi - Burgeoning conflicts in Somalia and Darfur loomed large here on Thursday at a summit of leaders from African Great Lakes nations convened to...
Read More »Aid workers need increased access - UN official
NAIROBI, 14 Dec 2006 (IRIN) - Somalia is one of the worst places for humanitarian actors but they should strive to negotiate access to help Somalis li...
Read More »U.S. condemns Somali Islamists' war ultimatum
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday condemned as "irresponsible" a threat by Somalia's Islamist movement to attack Ethiopian troops back...
Read More »Somalia's new army says its ready to fight as country slides to war
MANAS, Somalia (AP) - Wearing purple flip flops, oversized trousers and a T-shirt, Osman Ali holds a gun that is almost as big as he is....
Read More »African Union urges backing for Somalia peace force
NAIROBI, Dec 14 (Reuters) - African states should send peacekeepers to help Somalia's fragile interim government negotiate with rival Islamists from a...
Read More »UN Special Representative Urges Somali Leaders to Put Needs of
Nairobi, 13 December – The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia, Francois Lonseny Fall, today appealed for calm in Somalia fo...
Read More »Zenawi unbent by Islamists troop ultimatum
Mogadishu - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on Wednesday played down a seven-day deadline from powerful Islamists in neighbouring Somalia to wit...
Read More »Somalia PM says government surrounded
BAIDOA, Somalia - Thousands of Islamic militants have surrounded the only town Somalia's internationally recognized government controls, the prime min...
Read More »Bid to avert all-out war
NAIROBI, 13 Dec 2006 (IRIN) - The international community is trying to avert an all-out war in Somalia amid reports that forces of the Union of Islami...
Read More »Tensions boil on Somali front as Ethiopia defiant
BUUR HAKABA, Somalia (Reuters) - Ethiopia on Wednesday brushed off an Islamist ultimatum to leave Somalia in a week, as troops dug in on a slim frontl...
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