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Parliament Speaker: Killers of the Women Street Cleaners Had No Sense of Morality

hiiraan.com     07-Aug-2008          

Mogadishu, Somalia (HOL) - Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Parliament Speaker Sheik Adam Mohamed Nur (aka Sheik Adam Madobe) condemned the people who killed the women who were cleaning a street in Mogadishu on...                    

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Somali PM's decision to sack Mogadishu Mayor unconstitutional

xinhuanet.com     07-Aug-2008   3 related          

MOGADISHU, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- General Prosecutor of Somalia, Abdullahi Dahir Barre, Thursday described the Prime Minister's decision to dismiss the Mayor of Mogadishu and to name new ministers as unconstitutional. In a letter...                    

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Mogadishu blast kills 13, mostly women

freerepublic.com     07-Aug-2008          

A roadside explosion in Mogadishu on Sunday killed at least 13 people, most of them women who were sweeping a street, witnesses said. Residents said a remotely detonated device exploded in Waberi district along a main road...                    

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Local aid worker shot dead in Somalia

xinhuanet.com     06-Aug-2008   7 related          

MOGADISHU, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Abdulkadir Yusuf Kariye, head of the Lafole Orphanage Center in Somalia, was killed by unknown gunmen Wednesday on the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu, witnesses said. Kariye was at his home not...                    

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Two Italian aid workers freed in Somalia

xinhuanet.com     05-Aug-2008   9 related          

MOGADISHU, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Two Italian aid workers kidnapped in south Somalia in May were released Tuesday after local elders and members of the Somali civil society groups interfered, local media reported. "As confirmed by...                    

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EU condemns attacks in Mogadishu

hiiraan.com     05-Aug-2008   2 related          

Tuesday, August 05, 2008 NAIROBI (Xinhua) - The European Union on Tuesday expressed concern over the killing of about 20 Somalis mainly women in a bomb attack in Mogadishu early Monday. In a statement issued in Nairobi, the EU...                    

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TFG Troops Kill Four People in Afgoye

hiiraan.com     22-Jul-2008   2 related          

Mogadishu, Somalia (HOL): Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) troops who recently returned from Ethiopia after military training killed four people in the city of Afgoye which located 30 kilometres south of Mogadishu.                    

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UN says 14 million in Africa's Horn need food aid

newsvine.com     22-Jul-2008   56 related          

MOGADISHU — Dahir Abdi Salah used to feed his children three meals a day — pancakes for breakfast, spaghetti for lunch and beans for dinner. "They eat porridge once a day," Salah said of his children, ages 2, 5 and 6, who live...                    

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Back to Somali-land

wordpress.com     20-Jul-2008          

Tomorrow we fly out to Jijiga, a small town on the northern edge of the Ogaden desert in eastern Ethiopia that will serve as base camp for the week. We will be going to two refugee camps to assess our project's efforts there. I...                    

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Somalia clan violence death toll rises to 14

gulfnews.com     19-Jul-2008   2 related          

Mogadishu: At least 14 Somalis were killed in inter-clan clashes sparked by land ownership disputes, witnesses said on Saturday. Fighting broke out late on Thursday near Kismayo, a port town located some 500km south of the...                    

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