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Somali children bear brunt of flood, drought misery
WAJID, Somalia (AFP) - Whimpering quietly as she is placed in a sling to be weighed at a feeding station here in flood-stricken southern Somalia, emac...
Read More »Diarrhoea kills 40 in Puntland
NAIROBI, 11 Dec 2006 (IRIN) - An outbreak of watery diarrhoea in Somalia's northeastern self-declared autonomous region of Puntland has claimed the li...
Read More »Somalia: Mogadishu Fact Sheet - OCHA Dec 2006
After heavy fighting between Islamic Courts Union (ICU) armed groups and those allied to faction leaders during the month of May left more than 320 pe...
Read More »Somalia government warns of 'grave danger'
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AFP) - Somalia's government on Monday said its stand-off with the country's powerful Islamic movement posed a "grave danger" to th...
Read More »Militiamen advance to key Ethiopian town
Mogadishu, Somalia (AP) - Islamic militiamen were advancing to a border town that is believed to be on a supply route for Ethiopian troops in Somalia,...
Read More »UN refugee agency seeks over $1 billion to aid 21 million people in 2007
11 December 2006 – The United Nations refugee agency today sought $1.06 billion, a slight decrease over this year’s initial global appeal, to assi...
Read More »Somalia: IDP Fact Sheet
Somalia faces a massive chronic displacement situation compounded, in 2006, by layers of new forced population movements throughout the country. Some ...
Read More »Somali government sounds alarm over fighting
MOGADISHU, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Somalia's Western-backed interim government sounded the alarm on Monday over recent clashes with Islamist rivals which i...
Read More »Taking a step toward understanding
Facing a tide of immigrants flowing their way, Rochester and other small Midwest cities are reaching out to communicate with newcomers. But goodwill e...
Read More »Youth want Miller's Time
Yetunde and Olakemi Villada will be holding Mayor David Miller to his promise to open doors of opportunity to all young Torontonians....
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