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Somali Gov't Rejects New Peace Plan
Mogadishu, Somalia (AP) - Somalia's weak government on Saturday rejected a new peace initiative by a renegade lawmaker and the Islamic movement contro...
Read More »Uganada Govt to seek approval for Somalia deployment
Kampala, Uganda (New Vision) - THE Government is to seek parliamentary approval before deploying UPDF soldiers to war-torn Somalia, reports Emmy Allio...
Read More »US fears Ethiopian invasion of Somalia
NAIROBI (AFP) - The United States is actively discouraging Ethiopia from invading Somalia to back the country's weak government against powerful Islam...
Read More »Somali Islamists, breakaway lawmakers agree to new peace talks
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somalia's powerful Islamist movement and a group of breakaway lawmakers agreed to new peace talks in an attempt to avert looming war...
Read More »Somali Islamists and politicians to resume talks
MOGADISHU, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Somali Islamists and members of the interim parliament, in a last-ditch effort to avert war, agreed on Friday to resume ...
Read More »US starts relief operations for flood victims
Dire Dawa, Ethiopia - The United States Air Force began delivering food and relief supplies to thousands of flood victims in eastern Ethiopia on Frida...
Read More »FACTBOX-Somalia's recent influx of weapons
An unreleased U.N. report on violations to a widely flouted 1992 arms embargo on Somalia says militant groups and 11 nations are sending the governmen...
Read More »Flood toll rises as more rain falls in the south
NAIROBI, 9 Nov 2006 (IRIN) - The human death toll from flooding in southern Somalia has risen to 18, with thousands people more forced to leave their ...
Read More »Eleven nations feed Somali war build-up - experts
NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) - Militant groups and 11 countries are funnelling the military aid needed for a full-scale war into Somalia, widening the th...
Read More »Somali women demonstrate to support state
MOGADISH, Somalia (AP) - Hundreds of Somali women took to the streets on Friday to express their support for the weak transitional government, urging...
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