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Carjack victim testifies in Atlanta shooting
ATLANTA - Minutes after a deadly courthouse rampage, a gun-wielding Brian Nichols carjacked a newspaper employee and, to get her to obey him, told her...
Read More »Somali police chief forced to leave government seat
BAIDOA, Somalia (AFP) - The commander of Somalia's police force will leave the weak government's seat after heavily armed local militia surrounded hi...
Read More »New Minneapolis Organization Hopes to Tackle Somali Problems
Minneapolis, MN (HOL) – No one denies that the Somali saga is complicated, but one new organization in Minneapolis says with the right spirit and sp...
Read More »Fears of Military Coup in Somalia
Internal disputes within the Somali interim administration are raising fears that the Supreme Council of the Islamic Courts (SCIC) will attempt a mili...
Read More »UN seeks $35-million for Somalis fleeing to Kenya
Geneva - The United Nations appealed on Tuesday for $35-million to provide food and other urgent supplies for a tide of Somali refugees fleeing violen...
Read More »First five-star hotel to open in Djibouti
The tiny north-African country of Djibouti will be opening its first five-star hotel next month, in a move set to push the country further as an inter...
Read More »Kenya reports first polio case in two decades
NAIROBI -- Kenya reported its first case of polio in more than two decades on Tuesday at a refugee camp near its border with Somalia, raising new fear...
Read More »Fear of Islamic law scares off pirates
SOMALIA'S new Islamic rulers have rid the country of the pirates who terrorised cruise ships and freighters off its shores....
Read More »Islamists clash with southern Somali militia
KISMAYU, Somalia, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Troops loyal to powerful Somali Islamists clashed with rival militia fighters in a southern town, killing four an...
Read More »One Republican Quietly Stumps Somali Community
Minneapolis, MN – (HOL) - Rich Stanek, a Republican, who’s running for Hennepin County Sheriff, emerged at a Somali event Saturday, a member of t...
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