WFP Appeals for More Food and Action Against Piracy in Somalia.
The United Nations World Food Program's director for Somalia says attacks on aid workers and threats to ships delivering food aid to Somalia are putting in danger the lives of the millions who now need urgent food assistance. He also called for a boost in humanitarian assistance to the country. Tendai Maphosa has more in this report for VOA from London.... |
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Barack Obama picks up fresh support from Democrats.
Barack Obama picked up fresh support Wednesday from fellow Democrats eager for party unity after a bruising battle for the presidential nomination, at the same time he accused Republican rival John McCain of supporting a "plan for staying, not a plan for victory" in Iraq. ... |
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Sami al-Hajj honor the island next Monday.
Honors Jazeera network next Monday colleague cameraman Sami al-Hajj news channel on his release from Guantanamo detainees after the U.S. spent six years without formal charges or any fair trial to him.
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Islamist fighters seize town in Somalia.
A human rights leader says Islamist fighters have seized a southern town in Somalia that is a major agricultural center, compelling hundreds of refugees to flee.... |
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Security Council adopts a resolution to deploy international forces in Somalia.
UN Security Council adopted unanimously a resolution paving the way for the deployment of international peacekeeping forces in Somalia in a timely manner to replace the African Union military mission there. This coincides with the conclusion of a conference between the government and the opposition in Djibouti which was agreed to begin a serious dialogue to put an end to the escalating violence.... |
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Is the killing of the shots hamper dialogue between the government and opposition?
As for the impact of this incident on the upcoming dialogue, it is certain that this process would hamper the leadership of the coalition began to move forward with it, particularly that there is even one of the elements of the Alliance believes that the feasibility of such a dialogue in light of continuing such targeting of civilians and U.S. bombing of the territory of the Somali leaders Whatever the positions they are fighting the Ethiopian enemy.
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Launching new television channel Somali-speaking from London.
Hours yesterday May 10, 2008 from London television channel "RAAD tv" and broadcasts its programs in Somali. Reaches broadcast channel "RAAD tv" to all parts of the world, particularly areas inhabited by the Somali-speaking nation in both Somalia and Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti.... |
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France awaits Somalia's OK to try pirates.
PARIS (AP) — The French government is seeking Somalia's approval for bringing six pirates who attacked a yacht to trial in France, the prime minister said Tuesday.
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Somalia to Ask UN for International Peacekeepers.
Somalia's foreign minister says his government will ask the U.N. Security Council to send a multi-national force to his country to take over from African Union peacekeepers who are currently trying to help bring stability to Somalia. From United Nations headquarters in New York, VOA's Margaret Besheer has more.... |
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Ethiopia Playing the US Game in Somalia.
It is exactly a year since Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, fell to Ethiopian troops (Dec. 28), and the occupation has been one of the most brutal on record. The resistance started at once, and Ethiopian counterinsurgency tactics are not gentle.... |
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Burundi peacekeepers deploy in Somali capital.
A first contingent of 100 peacekeepers from Burundi deployed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday, hours after fighting between Islamist rebels and government forces killed at least four people.... |
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Burundi peacekeepers deploy in Somali capital.
A first contingent of 100 peacekeepers from Burundi deployed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday, hours after fighting between Islamist rebels and government forces killed at least four people.... |
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Exiled Journalists Gain Professional Skills.
Ten-day training held for over 40 Somali journalists in Nairobi on upgrading their journalisPtic skills has ended at the Lenana Mount Hotel on Thursday, 20 December 2007, with the presence of the French Ambassador to Kenya and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Nairobi Her Excellency Mrs. Elisabeth Barbier and the UNESCO representative for Somalia Mr. Paul Gomis.... |
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Mortar fire kills six people in Mogadishu.
Fighting between government troops and Islamist insurgents in northern Mogadishu has killed at least six people including three family members, residents said on Tuesday.... |
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