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Ethiopian rebels push for talks
NAIROBI - A rebel group fighting for an independent state in southern Ethiopia has said it wants other African nations to take up its cause and push A...
Read More »Ontario Municipal Election: Somali Canadian Prospective
What is the Municipal election? And how important is it to get involved? How the outcome of this election does impacts the large Somali Canadians in O...
Read More »'60 Minutes' correspondent Ed Bradley dies at 65
Ed Bradley, the jazz-loving 60 Minutes correspondent whose race and earring set him apart from his more traditional, white colleagues on the top-rated...
Read More »Kenya wants UN to lift arms ban on Somalia
Nairobi, Kenya (Daily Nation) - Kenya is lobbying the United Nations Security Council to lift an arms embargo on Somalia....
Read More »France urges dialogue to avert all-out war in Somalia
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - France called for dialogue between all parties to disputes in lawless Somalia that have brought the country to the edge of a war m...
Read More »CHAHAMA: FIRST ARAB RELIGIOUS LEADERS NETWORK RESPONDING TO AIDS LAUNCHED TODAY
Cairo, November 9, 2006, The First Network of Arab Religious Leaders Responding to AIDS was launched in Cairo today. The CHAHAMA network brings toget...
Read More »The California Wellness Foundation Announces 2006 California Peace Prize Honorees
Los Angeles —Sahra Abdi teaches Somali and African refugees and immigrants who have fled their violent homelands how to control anger and manage str...
Read More »Blind Somalis learn to live alongside anarchy
ALI Hussein says Somalia is the worst place in the world to be blind. To survive, he has learned to distinguish between the sounds of mortars, missile...
Read More »Ethiopian judge tells of regime's massacres
The Ethiopian government is responsible for the killing of tens of thousands of students and other critics over the past 15 years, one of the country'...
Read More »Villages flooded as river bursts bank
NAIROBI, 8 Nov 2006 (IRIN) - At least 10 people have been killed and thousands of others forced to leave their homes, after a river burst its banks in...
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