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AllAfrica News: Somalia
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Security Council Calls for Plans for Peacekeepers
The Security Council today called on Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to continue contingency plans to deploy a possible United Nations peacekeeping operation in strife-torn Somalia and to relocate its political office from neighbouring Kenya.
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UN Calls For More Support Of Refugees in Yemen
The top United Nations refugee official, beginning a five-day visit to Yemen, today called on the international community to bolster its assistance to Somali refugees who have reached the Middle East country after making the perilous crossing of the Gulf of Aden.
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Burundi Defense Chief Visits Mogadishu
Burundi's defense minister, Major-General Niyoyankana Germain, spoke with reports Thursday at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu, the Somali capital.
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More Arrests For Alleged Links to Ethiopia Rebels
Five Somalis who landed at an airport in the country's northern sub-state of Puntland were arrested Wednesday minutes after they get off an airplane from neighboring Djibouti, a government official told Radio Garowe.
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Murder And Mayhem in Ungoverned Port of Kismayo
At least three people have been shot to death in the southern Somali port of Kismayo since Tuesday night, local sources reported.
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Unicef Feeds 44,000 Displaced Children
Against a backdrop of drought, soaring food prices and large numbers of people being driven out of their homes by armed conflict, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has provided food to 44,000 displaced children in war-ravaged Somalia.
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Somaliland's Election Commission to Mediate Among Party Leaders
After weeks of political wrangling, a key decision has been reached among major political parties in negotiations organized by the election commission in Somaliland, a separatist region in northern Somalia, an elections official said.
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Insecurity Grips Kismayo
Gangs of armed men have set up roadblocks in and around Somalia's coastal city of Kismayo, 500km south of Mogadishu, causing serious insecurity.
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Key Mediator Quits Talks
A key official in the government of Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland announced Monday that he has quit mediation efforts to help resolve an election dispute between the Somaliland president and opposition party leaders.
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Ethiopia Soldiers Detain Then Release Islamic Clerics
A group of Muslim clerics in central Somalia were briefly arrested and later released by Ethiopian soldiers deployed to help restore order in the chaotic Horn of Africa country, our central regions correspondent reported.
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Former Islamist-Allied Warlord Rejects Peace Talks in Djibouti
A former warlord allied to Somalia's collapsed Islamic Courts movement has rejected peace talks that opened in Djibouti yesterday.
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Armed Groups Must End Threats and Attacks on Humanitarian Workers
Amnesty International today condemned the recent threats against humanitarian workers in Somalia made by Muqtar Robow Abu Mansur, a leader and spokesperson of Al-Shabab.
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Country Must Be the Priority - UN Special Envoy
The United Nations Special Envoy to Somalia Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah has expressed his optimism and hope at the willingness of the Somali leaders to put their country and the safety of the Somali people as a top priority.
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Talks Begin Between Govt and Opposition Group - UN
Talks between the Somali Government and an opposition group began today, and the top United Nations envoy to the war-torn Horn of Africa nation said that he was pleased that leaders have made the well-being and safety of their people their priority.
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Mogadishu Hospitals Hit Hard By High Violence Toll
Mrs Faduma Dalel Farah, a mother of four, is a typical victim of the ongoing conflict in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
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Peace Talks to Begin in Djibouti
Representatives of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and an Eritrea-based opposition alliance were gathered in Djibouti on 12 May for peace talks, with the government expressing optimism about the outcome.
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Ethiopian Troops Disarm Warlord - Sources
Ethiopian troops backing Somalia's interim government have disarmed a former warlord in the central regions, reliable sources tell Garowe Online.
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Lawmaker's Home Attacked
The home of a former Somali warlord-turned-lawmaker was attacked Sunday in the southwestern town of Baidoa, where the country's interim federal parliament sits, officials said.
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Ethiopia Troops Return Warlord to Power
A notorious warlord in central Somalia has returned to his former seat of power at a provincial capital after being forced to flee in April by Islamist guerrillas.
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Leader Returns to Mogadishu After Visiting Foreign Capitals
Interim Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf returned to the capital Mogadishu Sunday unannounced, after a weeks-long trip visiting foreign capitals and meeting with world leaders.
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