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28
Dec
2011
First Djibouti Troops Join AU Somalia Force

45 days ago by Online Editor 5

The first Djiboutian contingent of 100 soldiers landed in Mogadishu Tuesday to join the African Union force battling Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab forces in Somalia, the mission said. “An advance party consisting of 100 troops … arrived at Mogadishu airport this afternoon. A further 800 troops will follow ...

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24
Dec
2011
Slice of Life as a Mogadishu Humanitarian Aid Worker

49 days ago by lissnup

Image via Wikipedia FROM THE FIELD: KEEPING HOPE ALIVE IN MOGADISHU It is a hot, dusty morning in Mogadishu, the war-ravaged capital of Somalia, and Ahmed Farah Roble is in a makeshift settlement for internally displaced persons ( IDPs), listening to a mother tell him about her baby daughter. Ahmed ...

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22
Dec
2011
The 10 most dangerous places for journalists in 2011

51 days ago by Izzy Bee

Reporters Without Borders website has compiled a list of the world’s 10 most dangerous places for the media – the 10 cities, districts, squares, provinces or regions where journalists and netizens (internet citizens &/or online entities) were exposed to violence and where freedom of information was ...

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20
Dec
2011
Several killed in Mogadishu clashes

53 days ago by Hgelle

At least seven people are known to have died and three other wounded when the African Union Peacekeeping forces in Mogadishu and Al-Shabaab rebel fighters clashed at Aba-gedo area in Mogadishu’s Darkenley district on Monday night. The clashes erupted when rebel fighters launched attacks on AMISOM ba ...

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Galmudug Journalists condemn the killing of a TV journalist in Mogadishu

53 days ago by Hgelle

A journalists’ body in Galmudug state of Somalia has strongly condemned the killing of broadcast journalist, Abdisalan Sheikh Hassan, who was shot dead by man wearing a government soldier’s uniform in Mogadishu on Sunday. Hassan worked for Horn Cable TV channel, a Somali television channel. The gene ...

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Armed gangs filling Mogadishu security vacuum

54 days ago

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As Mogadishu emerges from 20 years of war, a security vacuum has appeared in the Somali capital. Despite al-Shabab fighters withdrawing in August, government forces are struggling to make the city safe. Local communities are organising their own armed gangs to protect themselves, threatening to retu ...

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15
Dec
2011
We Have No Famine, Says Somalian Prime Minister

58 days ago by Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

The World’s Aid Agencies Have Become “Lords Of Poverty” And Their Claim That Famine Has Struck Somalia’s Capital Is “Absolutely” False, According To Abdiweli Mohammed Ali, The Country’s Prime Minister Mr Ali, who leads Somalia’s officially recognised government, chose the week when the United Nation ...

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UK delegation visits Mogadishu

58 days ago by Hgelle

Somali president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed Wednesday received in his presidential palace in Mogadishu a British delegation led by David Cameroon’s adviser. The UK delegation arrived in Mogadishu to lay ground for the highly awaited international conference on Somalia in London on Feb. 23 next year which w ...

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13
Dec
2011
Kenya’s stalled operation in Somalia

61 days ago by Ken Opalo

The East African reports: There are four major factors that have bogged down the military campaign. They are: Lack of finances to run a long-drawn war; the differences between interested parties over whether to divide Somalia into autonomous regions or maintain one united country; differences over t ...

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11
Dec
2011
A send-off party for outgoing AU peacekeepers held in Mogadishu

62 days ago by Hgelle

AU’s deputy envoy to Somalia, Wafula Wamunyiyi (right), and the AU force commander, Fred Mugisha, (left) follow the event at the former Somali National University in the capital, Mogadishu. A farewell party for a battalion of outgoing African Union peacekeepers, Amisom, was on Sunday held in the for ...

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