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Ethiopian parliament authorizes "all necessary" steps against Somalia's UIC
Ethiopia's parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution authorizing Prime Minister Meles Zenawi-led government to take "all necessary" steps against th...
Read More »UN council weighs tightening Somalia arms embargo
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 29 (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council pledged on Wednesday to consider steps to tighten a widely ignored 1992 U.N. arms embargo...
Read More »Citing spike in Somalia’s arms trade, Security Council extends group tracking flows
29 November 2006 – The United Nations Security Council today condemned the spike in Somalia’s weapons trade and extended the mandate of a group of...
Read More »Somali parliament backs plan for peacekeepers
MOGADISHU, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Somalia's interim government voted on Wednesday to support a U.S. proposal that would let east African peacekeepers depl...
Read More »Getting it wrong in Somalia, again
ALREADY NOTORIOUS as the world's only state without a functioning government, Somalia may be about to deteriorate even further. The country is rapidly...
Read More »Man's Deportation to Somalia Sets Off a Wave of Concern Over Safety
On the evening of Nov. 2, a young corporate lawyer in New Jersey received a frantic call from a charity client, a 46-year-old Harlem grocery clerk wit...
Read More »Somalia needs to be stabilised - US
The United States said on Tuesday a regional peacekeeping force was needed to protect Somalia's weak transitional government from the powerful Islamis...
Read More »Floods death toll rises to 34 in Kenya
Nairobi - Torrential rains have battered the Horn of Africa region in recent weeks, killing hundreds, uprooting thousands more and triggering a humani...
Read More »Somali Islamists: We will bring in foreign help
Somalia's powerful Islamist movement said on Tuesday it would summon Muslim fighters from around the world to join its fight if the United Nations aut...
Read More »UNHCR steps up aid for flood-affected Somali refugees in Kenya
The UN refugee agency UNHCR said it was stepping up its airlift of emergency supplies for thousands of Somalis affected by devastating flooding in Ken...
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