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Fire Burns Down Part of Mogadishu's Bakara Market
Wednesday, Dec. 6 (HOL) - Part of Mogadishu's Bakara market got burnt again after some one left a fire in a kitchen unattended....
Read More »Kenya's Muslim Leaders Deny Somali Islamists Recruitment in Northeast
As fear mounts of an all-out war in Somalia which could drag in neighboring countries, Muslim leaders in Kenya are denying allegations that Somali Isl...
Read More »Flood Situation Report No 12
The Flood Response Plan was launched in Geneva today, appealing for US$18.2 million. (Total needs for ongoing flood response are estimated at US$28.6 ...
Read More »Somalia official issues beheading threat
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Residents of a southern Somalia town who do not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an Islamic courts official said Wedn...
Read More »Urgent Appeal for Peace in the Horn of Africa
To urgently take effective measures that will put an end to the rapid deterioration of relations between Ethiopia and the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC...
Read More »Cross-Border Migration an HIV/Aids Threat
NAIROBI, 6 Dec 2006 (IRIN) - Somalia's HIV prevalence of about one percent is low, but the cross-border movement of people is causing an increase in i...
Read More »Fears of humanitarian crisis as war talk escalates
NAIROBI, 6 Dec 2006 (IRIN) - The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has expressed concern over reports of immin...
Read More »Killer Somali floods 'worse' than searing drought
ARARE, Somalia (AFP) - On an island of dry land surrounded by the worst floods in Somalia in 50 years, scores of displaced villagers lamented their fa...
Read More »Somali government appeals for help to fight Islamist 'terror'
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AFP) - Somalia's weak government has pleaded for international help to fight alleged Islamist terrorism that it warned would have ...
Read More »Feingold, Coleman fault Bush policy on Somalia
WASHINGTON (AP) - Returning from a trip to Africa, Sen. Russ Feingold faulted the Bush administration for what he called a failure to develop a policy...
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