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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Al Shabab, the Islamist insurgent group fighting in southern Somalia announced on Thursday that Mogadishu’s Aden Adde airport may be reopened if the authorities are prepared to negotiate with them. A spokesman for Al Shabab, Sheikh Muqtar Robw Abu Mansur said that the reasons which led them to close the airport still exist, but that [...]
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
A UN delegation has visited refugees in Elasha biyaha area outside Mogadishu on Thursday.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The Islamist group which last month ordered the closure of the main airport in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, said on Thursday it is ready to rescind its decision after negotiations about it. The Al-Shabaab Islamist movement last month threatened to shootd own any aircraft using the airport which they said was being used to bring in military supplies for Ethiopian troops and African Union peacekeepers...
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
More than 100 of Somalia’s clan elders have sent an appeal to the Al Shabaab, the hard line Islamists faction which had been linked to Al-Qaida, to reopen the international airport that has not been functioning since September 16, after a long meeting held by the elders on Wednesday morning. Members of the Hawiye clan, one [...]
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
When I called for Somali's division last week, I expected the vitriolic reaction I have received from the war-weary country's refugees in the US, Britain, Denmark, Eritrea and Mogadishu.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Two foreign aid workers appealed for their freedom Friday in the Somali capital, surrounded by armed kidnappers who seized them last month in a restive region of Ethiopia, local media reported.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) troops and particularly Ugandan troops who are based at the KM4 junction in Mogadishu shot dead a street child after they opened fire at him as they were passing by on Thursday night ccording to eyewitnesses.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
A ship ferrying UN food aid arrived in Somalia's Mogadishu port on Friday night escorted by a Canadian frigate to deter an attack by pirates.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
AMISOM [African Union Mission in Somalia] said Villa Somalia came under attack by "enemies of peace and spoilers of the initiative to return sanity to Mogadishu" at about 18.00 hours local time on Monday, 6 October 2008 as the statement mentioned.
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New York Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
MOGADISHU, Somalia - NATO will soon join the international force protecting vessels off Somalia's coast, even as pirates soften their ransom demands for an arms-laden Ukrainian tanker hijacked two weeks ago. NATO defense ministers, meeting...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ethiopian forces deployed in parts of Somalia will soon be dispatched to the southern port of Kismayo, some 500km south of the capital Mogadishu, reliable sources tell Garowe Online.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
MOGADISHU, Somalia | NATO joined a growing international force to protect vessels off Somalia’s perilous coast Thursday, sending military ships to the waters where pirates are negotiating the release of an arms-laden tanker.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- NATO joined a growing international force to protect vessels off Somalia's perilous coast Thursday, sending military ships to the treacherous waters where pirates are negotiating the release of an arms-laden tanker.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Two Somali soldiers one of them security officer have been shot dead in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday noon, according to eyewitnesses.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Mogadishu - A Pakistani oil worker has been kidnapped in northern Somalia, a local official said Wednesday. A Pakistani oil worker was kidnapped early Wednesday morning, Yusuf Ahmed, head of Action Against Human Trafficking, told Deutsche Presse-Ag...
