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1 hr ago | Harowo.com

Maaweelada Caruurta: Dhegeyso Labo Wasiir oo Ka Mid ah Xukuumada...

Maaweelada Caruurta: Dhegeyso Labo Wasiir oo Ka Mid ah Xukuumada Siilaanyo, oo Irbadii Hurdada Ku Duraya Qurbajooga Beelaha Dhexe, Iyaga oo Ka Seexinaya Khatarta Ka Hoos Shanqadhaysa Sirka London AllAfrica.comSomalia: Saving Somalia? - Reflections On the Last 20 Years, and the Upcoming ...AllAfrica.comSo a political solution must now be found for ... (more)

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6 hrs ago | Harowo.com

Dhegeyso Waraysi uu Suldaan C/raxman Cawaale Hure Siiyay Waaheen...

Dhegeyso Waraysi uu Suldaan C/raxman Cawaale Hure Siiyay Waaheen Media, Isaga oo Ka Digay Khiyaamada Ku Ladhan Shirka London.

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Tue Feb 07, 2012

AllAfrica.com

Somalia: Saving Country? - Reflections On the Last 20 Years, and the Upcoming 'London Conference'

If I were a Somali I would thank Allah for the pirates. For more than 20 years the world has stood by while successive civil wars destroyed the country, killing hundreds of thousands of people by bullets, disease and starvation and reducing what was once a prosperous land to a war zone.

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Ghanamma.com

Somalia: Getting Country Wrong - a History of International Misreading

Writing a book about Somalia has become a cotton industry of late. Countless pundits with little or no experience of the country try to reduce its extraordinarily intricate conflict to images of destruction, decay and death.

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Newkerala.com

Somalia: UN group urges end to interim political arrangement

Djibouti, Feb 7 : The international group that brings together the United Nations and its diplomatic partners in support of efforts to restore peace and stability in Somalia insisted on Monday that the country's current transitional governing arrangements must end on Aug 20 this year, as stipulated in recent agreements, and called for a new draft ... (more)

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Harowo.com

Why the international community has to come together to help Somalia - By William Hague

A In September 1992 Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd visited Mogadishu. He could not have known that it would be 20 years before any of his successors set foot in the country again.

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Mon Feb 06, 2012

CNN

Columbia Student solves Piracy in 3 minutes

As a Graduate student at Columbia University in Economics I've been studying the math behind piracy in Somalia largely to find the only people losing money in these transactions are the taxpayers funding massive military presences on the seas.

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AllAfrica.com

Kenya: Kenya's Airstrike Kills 100 Al-Shabaab Fighters

Nairobi - At least 100 fighters including eight top Al-Shabaab commanders have been killed in the latest battle in a town northeast of Badhade, Somalia, officials said on Friday.

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AllAfrica.com

Somalia: Shabelle Media Network Director Was Killed By Al-Shabab

Nairobi - The prime Minster of Somalia's Transitional Federal government Abdiweli Mohamed Ali has accused Al-shabab fighters of being behind the assassination of the latest Shabelle Media director Hassan Abdi Osman 'fantastic' who was shot dead last Saturday in Mogadishu.

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Daily Mail

Somali pirate 'Six Toe Joe' captured by Royal Navy sailors

A Somali pirate dubbed Six Toe Joe because he has an extra digit on each foot has been captured by Royal Navy sailors.

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Sun Feb 05, 2012

Harvard Crimson

Sound the Horn

On Friday, February 2, the United Nations declared an end to the famine in the Horn of Africa that killed tens of thousands of people in the last nine months.

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Free Republic

FReeper Canteen ~ Hall of Heroes: LTG Gerald (Jerry) Boykin ~ February 6, 2012

Lieutenant General William G. Boykin was the United States Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.

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The Piqua Daily Call

Covering Northern Miami County

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Held captive since last fall, an ailing American woman and a Danish man are safely on their way home after a bold, dark-of-night rescue by U.S. Navy SEALs.

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Harowo.com

Clouds of War in Somalia's Northern Region - "Somaliland"

A For Some time now, "Somaliland" has been showered with praises both by the international community and Somalis alike.A Not because it had implemented grandiose ideals, but because it observed one dear illusive phenomenon in the Horn of Africa - peace and security in the region.A In the last twenty years, when Southern Somalia was mired in ... (more)

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AllAfrica.com

Somalia: Armed Group Attack Ethiopian Troops

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Sat Feb 04, 2012

Daily Monitor

UPDF set to deploy outside Mogadishu

After almost pacifying Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, AMISOM is planning to roll out forces to other parts of the troubled country where elements of al Shabaab are thought to be.

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NewsBlaze

US Advances Global Efforts to Combat Hunger

With the United States' commitment to combat global hunger, the Acting Special Representative for Global Food Security Jonathan Shrier will welcome global food security representatives to Washington today to advance mutual accountability and coordination of efforts in fulfilling our leaders' food security commitments.

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NewsBlaze

ITTF Table Tennis Refereeing Course Concludes in Mogadishu

International Table Tennis Federation instructor Dr. Mohamed Refaat Bassyouni has successfully concluded a 6-day-long refereeing course for Somali table tennis referees in a colorful ceremony at Shamow hotel in Mogadishu late on Thursday in the presence of Somali NOC president and other senior officials within the national Olympic committee of ... (more)

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LA Daily News

U.N. downgrades famine in Somalia, but 2 million still need food aid to survive

Children line up at a food distribution center in Mogadishu, Somalia in January.

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Fri Feb 03, 2012

Toronto News.Net

Drone crashes near Somalia refugee camp

An unidentified drone crashed near a camp for displaced people in the outskirts of Somali capital Mogadishu, Xinhua reported.

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