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Fri 20 Aug 2010 |
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Somalia UN Mafia: We bocketd $650 Mil. in 2009, We need more
There are "critical gaps" in assistance in some of the key areas where the Somali people need help, a senior UN official has said. Mark Bowden, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, told Xinhua in a recent exclusive interview ....
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Somalia: Puntland troops kill 13 militants in armed clash
Heavily armed security forces from Somalia's northern stable state of Puntland have clashed with militia loyal to a militant group near Bossaso, the region's commercial capital, Radio Garowe reports. Reports said the militia attacked Puntland forces in . . .
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The Nile: The threat of a water war (VIDEO)
NATIONS FIGHT over water, especially when access is curtailed or threatened, and there are the ingredients for a battle over the 4,100-mile long Nile River. Egypt and Sudan have counted on the abundance of the Nile’s life-giving flow. Now upstream natio. . .
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The TFG Plan to Mint New Currency Poses Grave Dangers for So
The Government of Puntland State of Somalia strongly expresses its disapproval to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia’s unilateral plan to issue new currency in an agreement with private contractors in Sudan. Printing new monetary notes. . .
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Puntland: Heroes in a Land of Pirates
LAST Monday, Somali pirates seized two more prizes in rapid succession: a British-flagged chemical tanker and a Greek bulk carrier, bringing the current number of captive ships to 12 and the number of hostage mariners to at least 278. Despite the presence. . .
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Iran: Ahmadinejad meets Somali FM
TEHRAN (ISNA)-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Transitional Federal Government of the Somali Republic Ali Ahmed Jama Jangeli on Wednesday in Tehran. "The situation of many Islamic countries necessitates that a . . .
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US: Culture clash tears Somali family apart
Somalian immigrant Malaika Sabtow raised five children in African refugee camps, surviving for 14 years without electricity, amid persistent drought and regular outbreaks of malaria and tuberculosis. But none of those 14 years, she said, was as bad as th. . .
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Somalia: Bush's legacy is a failed state
Afghanistan and Iraq have monopolised the headlines but Somalia is arguably an even greater victim of George W Bush's ill-conceived and lamentably executed War on Terror. America's interventions have proved so catastrophic that its best hope of salvaging . . .
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Somalias chaos spreading far beyond its frontier and coast
On the first Thursday in December a young Danish-Somali man in women’s clothes blew himself up in a suicide attack in Mogadishu. Four days earlier, Somali pirates had hijacked a 300,000-tonne supertanker 800 miles out to sea. Somalia’s abject failure . . .
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World urged to help stabilize Somalia
NAIROBI, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- A UN-backed international meeting on Somalia has called on the world community to support initiatives aimed at stabilizing the Horn of Africa nation which has had no central government for almost two decades. . . .
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Somalia: Veiled Bomber Kills 3 Somali Ministers
NAIROBI, Kenya — In a devastating blow to Somalia’s nominal transitional government, a suicide bomber disguised as a veiled woman struck a college graduation ceremony on Thursday, killing at least 10 people, including 3 government ministers, Somali of. . .
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Nairobi: UN Mafia thugs seek $689 mln fake aid for Somalia
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- The United Nations said Monday it would seek 689 million U.S. dollars for 174 humanitarian projects for Somalia in 2010. A statement from the UN humanitarian agency, OCHA, said the Consolidated Appeal to be launched later this week in. . .
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Saudi soldiers kill seven Somali immigrants and bust boats
Seven Somali immigrants have been killed in Saudi Arabia ,Yemen border by Saudi soldiers, witnesses said on Saturday. The Somali immigrants were on their route from Yemen to Saudi Arabia when they have been killed by the Saudi soldiers. The soldiers have. . .
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Somalia: Scum of the Earth (The Most Corrupted Nation)
BERLIN — Lawless Somalia and war-torn Afghanistan topped a blacklist on Tuesday of the world's most corrupt countries drawn up by the anti-graft watchdog Transparency International. TI's annual corruption index showed how countries devastated by confli. . .
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Somalia: Somali pirates can't be beaten at sea
The release by Somali pirates of a Spanish trawler and its 36 crew has thrust the issue of Somali piracy back into the spotlight. The vessel was released after a ransom payment exceeding $3m was agreed. Not bad in a country where per capita GDP is barely . . .
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