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Draft resolution calls for sanctions on Eritrea

A proposed U.N. resolution is calling for an arms embargo and other tough sanctions against Eritrea for supplying arms to opponents of the Somali government and refusing to resolve a border dispute with Djibouti. Some council...

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What Are Those Warships Doing Off Somalia?

Pirate-fightin’ navies find that parking off the Horn of Africa provides cover for counterterrorism and protects scofflaw fishermen. Navies are expensive, and sending warships to Somalia is a hugely inefficient way to fight...

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Pittsburgh native tracks Somali pirates

TRIBUNE-REVIEW By Betsy Hiel Sunday, November 15, 2009 newsnsidDJIBOUTI CITY — Pittsburgh native Lt. Nicholas Rueda, 28, commands a P-3 Orion, the Navy plane used during the Cold War to track Russian submarines. Today, his P-3...

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Yemen, EU review anti-piracy efforts

SANA'A, Nov. 15 (Saba) - Transport Minister Khaled al-Wazir has talked with a delegation of the European Union (EU), currently visiting Yemen, on the steps required for the anti-piracy needs in the region of the Horn of Africa...

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Djibouti: Djibouti Forcibly Repatriates Somali Refugees to Mogadishu - UN

The United Nations refugee agency says Djibouti has sent back dozens of Somali asylum seekers back to Somalia's restive capital Mogadishu. A Dutch naval ship, the Evertsen, handed over the Somalis numbering more than 40 to...

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43 Somalis Rescued at Sea Are Handed Over to U.N.

Thursday, November 05, 2009 The EU Naval Force says it has handed over 43 Somalis abandoned at sea by their human smugglers to the United Nations refugee agency in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti. The EU force says a ship...

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Somalia plane hijack attempt thwarted (AFP)

AFP Graphic/File – Gunmen snuck on to a commercial flight between Somalia and Djibouti and briefly hijacked the plane in … BOSASSO, Somalia (AFP) – Gunmen snuck on to a commercial flight between Somalia and Djibouti and briefly...

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AU hails Djibouti's peacekeepers' offer to Somalia

Hiiraan Online Wednesday, November 04, 2009 MOGADISHU (HOL)-The African Union has welcomed Djibouti's offer to provide the African Union's Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) with troops, state-owned Djibouti news agency, said. The...

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Hope springs from Ethiopia water work

4 November 2009 Dirty drinking water used to be the scourge of one Ethiopian community until the local church intervened. Tearfund’s Joanna Watson reports. Just off the main road between Addis Ababa and Djibouti, lies a red...

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Somalia: Somalia Under UN Transitional Administration

With this month's (October) transition from non- extendable five (5) years' term of Transitional Federal Government (TFG) to two (2) years' term of Transitional Federal Unity Government (TFUG), Somalia lost the right for...

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