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South Africa: Leon says police should get stats on Somali attacks

OCT 16, 2006

The police don't have the facts on attacks on the Somali community and should get these, said Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Sunday....

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Somali president in Ethiopia to discuss security situation

OCT 16, 2006

BAIDOA, Oct 16, 2006 (AP) — Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf is visiting Ethiopia, a senior official said Monday, a day after residents in a souther...

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Armed standoff in Somali government seat

OCT 16, 2006

BAIDOA, Somalia (AFP) - Heavily armed militiamen surrounded the home of the commander of Somalia's police force Monday, officials said, underscoring ...

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Mogadishu radio station shut down

OCT 16, 2006

NAIROBI, 16 Oct 2006 (IRIN) - The Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), which controls the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and much of the country's south-central...

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Somali PM replaces three ministers

OCT 15, 2006

Prime Minister of Somalia's transitional federal government Ali Muhammad Gedi has sacked two ministers from his newly-appointed cabinet and accepted a...

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Somalia's speaker quits role in talks with Islamists

OCT 15, 2006

Somalia's parliamentary speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan has given up his role as the government's chief negotiator at talks with rival Islamists, a ...

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Forgotten refugees suffer neglect in Somalia

OCT 15, 2006

More than a decade after they fled fighting for the presumed safety of Mogadishu, thousands live in camps beset by violence that has scared off even a...

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Somali group plans disarmament

OCT 15, 2006

A Somali Islamist group has announced plans to disarm the rest of the country's population....

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Courts divided in Somalia

OCT 15, 2006

MOGADISHU, Somalia - The public execution was set for 9 a.m., and thousands of men, women and children raced toward a sandy dune where the previous go...

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South Africa: 'We all get called Baraka here'

OCT 15, 2006

'Baraka, give me two onions,' came the confident voice of the diminutive figure standing on the step....

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