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Friday, 06 June 2008 |
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Somalia: Security forces at the Kenyan-Somalia border said on Wednesday the militia had called to say they had left the vehicle and four firearms at the border. |
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Friday, 06 June 2008 |
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Djibouti: Businessman Haji Abukar Umar Adani, who was an ardent [financial] backer of the Union of Islamic Courts when the group was ruling the country, has arrived in Djibouti. |
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Friday, 06 June 2008 |
Moscow: If a decision is made, Russian naval ships are ready to head for the Somali coast where pirates recently seized a Dutch ship, an aide to the Russian Navy commander said Tuesday.
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
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Somalia: The Kenyan is seeking a police vehicle and guns seized by suspected Somali insurgents who attacked a Kenya police post along its border with Somalia on Friday, local media reported Wednesday. |
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
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Kenya: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday it saw no immediate improvement in a humanitarian crisis in Somalia that aid workers say may be the worst in Africa. |
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
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Somalia: The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced Wednesday that five Filipino seafarers who were among the crew of a cargo ship hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia last May 24 are safe. |
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
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Nairobi: Kenyan war planes and military helicopters flew over the border with Somalia on Tuesday, close to where suspected Somali Islamist insurgents attacked Kenyan police on Saturday, residents said. |
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
Ottawa: Canadian troops conducting anti-terrorism operations in the waters near Somalia appear to have scared off a pirate attack on a commercial vessel.
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
Somalia:Somalia is facing its worst humanitarian crisis in a decade, and the situation is deteriorating, an international aid agency said Wednesday.
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
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Somalia: The leader of Somalia's self-governing Puntland authority told soldiers Tuesday that his government cannot afford to pay for the soldiers' salaries. |
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
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Somalia: African Union peacekeepers carried out controlled explosion of two roadside bombs planted on a street near the airport as Somali president Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed returned to Mogadishu amid tight security from a meeting with UN Security Council delegation in Djibouti, officials said Tuesday. |
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
United Nations: The United Nations International Maritime Organization (IMO) has welcomed a new Security Council resolution that aims to curb piracy off Somalia's coast by allowing ships to enter the country's territorial waters to prevent attacks by armed robbers.
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
Somalia: The main Islamist opposition group in Somalia told a delegation from the United Nations Security Council that it would not participate in direct talks with Somalia’s government unless a timetable was created for the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from the country.
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
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Somalia: One person was killed and another injured after gunmen attacked the former defence minister, Barre Adan Shire Hirale, in central Kismayo, southern Somalia. |
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