Rebel Violence in Somalia

                   

Somalia: How War Lords Stay in Business

allafrica.com
14-Nov-2008 4 related
        

A doctor in Mogadishu gives medicine to a man complaining of an upset stomach. "This medicine won't work," groans the patient, "I got sick after eating expired food; only an expired medicine will cure it."

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Somalia: Nuns Abducted In Kenya Near Border

persecution.org
14-Nov-2008 4 related
        

Somali insurgents abducted two Catholic nuns from Kenya and took them to Somalia. Negotiations are ongoing to secure the release of the nuns. We ask Christians to pray that the nuns will be freed without any harm.

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Chinese fishing boat hijacked by Somali pirates

xinhuanet.com
14-Nov-2008 1,358 related
        

NAIROBI, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- A group of unidentified persons armed with grenade launchers and automatic weapons attacked a Chinese fishing boat off the coast of Kenya Thursday night, a regional maritime official said on Friday....

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Somali Islamists move closer to Mogadishu

mg.co.za
14-Nov-2008 6 related
        

ABDI SHEIKH | MOGADISHU, SOMALIA - Nov 14 2008 12:12 The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. Islamist rebels moved on Friday into a small town on the...

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Somalia: Situation Report No. 45 – 14 Nov 2008

reliefweb.int
14-Nov-2008 4 related
        

Key Overall Developments During the week, Somalia Water and Land Information Management (SWALIM) raised the flood alert from moderate to high on the Shabelle and Juba Rivers following significant rainfall in parts of South...

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Austrian charged with murder, rape, enslavement

journalgazette.net
14-Nov-2008
        

VIENNA, Austria – Prosecutors filed a murder charge Thursday against the man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a rat-infested cell and fathering her seven children, saying one of the youngsters who died in...

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Off the coast of Somalia: 'We're not pirates. These are our waters, not theirs'

independent.co.uk
14-Nov-2008 247 related
        

When Bile Wadani is not counting his money, he counts his wives. So far he has three – but he promises there will be more to come. "I didn't ever dream I would marry three wives but I have that dream now because I can get as...

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Somalia: Baidoa Security Tightened As Speaker Arrives

allafrica.com
14-Nov-2008 7 related
        

Posted to the web 14 November 2008 Somalia's parliament Speaker, Sheikh Adan "Madobe" Mohamed, arrived in the southwestern town of Baidoa after spending recent weeks in Kenya, Radio Garowe reported Thursday. Government forces...

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Jeremy Sare: Britain is leaving Somaliland to the mercy of al-Shabaab Islamist militants

guardian.co.uk
13-Nov-2008 4 related
        

The co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks in Somaliland's capital Hargeisa two weeks ago shattered more than a decade of stability. Since tearing itself from a bloody union with the violent southern half of Somalia, Somaliland to...

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Indian arrests signal the rise of Hindu terrorism, Andrew Legon

opendemocracy.net
13-Nov-2008 16 related
        

Indian police arrested a Hindu monk on Wednesday during an investigation into a wave of bomb attacks that have killed more than 200 people this year. Sudhakar Dwivedi, who often used the alias Swami Amritanand, was arrested in...

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