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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
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Djibouti: The president of Somalia's interim government, Abdullahi Yusuf, is visiting the neighboring Republic of Djibouti where a peace deal between his government and its opposition was inked last week. |
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
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Somalia: The Council of Ministers of the Somali transitional government have unanimously endorsed a peace agreement signed last week in Djibouti with the opposition Alliance for the Reliberation of Somalia (ARS), a Somali government spokesman said Monday. |
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
Somalia: At leaset 34 persons have died in fresh clashes that erupted between the Ethiopian army troops and Somali insurgents in northern Mogadishu.
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
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Somalia: About 50 Somali MPs are in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, as their safe heaven, after they fled from Baydhabo and the capital, Mogadishu, for security reasons, as they have claimed. |
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
South Africa: A camp manager at the Soetwater refugee place of safety in the South Peninsula says about 2 500 refugees - mostly Somalis, have left the site. Stephen Kratz says they suspect that the group left the camp during the night.
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
Somalia: Six children living in makeshift camps around the Somali capital of Mogadishu have died in flooding brought on by torrential rain over the weekend, residents said Monday.
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
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Somalia: Somali opposition leaders are opposed to the UN Security Council authorization last week for foreign navies to tackle piracy off the Somali coast, a senior opposition official told local media Sunday. |
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
Somalia: Two high ranking army commanders have resigned their posts in south Mugadishu after being ordered to commit mass murder they say.
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
Somalia: Clashes between two armed factions of the Marehan clan have left seven dead and five injured in Kismayu town, 500 kilometers from Mogadishu.
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
Addis Ababa: The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), a group of East African countries, has called for UN to send a peacekeeping force to Somalia.
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
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London: Somalis should not be punished for past mistakes of their leaders, the UN special envoy for Somalia said Sunday as he urged the big powers to help the east African country's rival factions implement a UN-brokered truce. |
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
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Somalia: Armed Islamic courts fighters attacked the Ethiopian troops based at ex-pasta industry where an hour last battle happened later on sunday, shortly after mortar attacks were aimed at Ethiopian troops based at Heila Barise Ethiopian military camp close to the Pasta factory in Mogadishu according to the residents. |
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
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Somalia: The president of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia [TFG], Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad, and the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, have held a meeting at the Ethiopian presidential palace in Addis Ababa. |
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
Jeddah: Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah regards a Somalia truce deal reached last week as a "breakthough" and will invite rival factions to an official signing ceremony as soon as possible, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said on Sunday.
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