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• Africa pushes for more UN support in Somalia

  Published: August 13, 2007, 7:13 pm

  Tags: Defence Forces, World Politics, Unrest Conflict War, Somalia, Sudan

  African nations have pressed the United Nations (UN) to supply peacekeeping backup for turbulent Somalia, similar to that initially provided for Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.

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• Allah Pundit Beats, Rapes Woman in MN Somali Ghetto

  Published: August 25, 2007, 7:44 pm

  Tags: Muslims, Somalia, Minnesota

  From LGF and MM: Michelle Malkin has the details of a horrific assault in a Somali neighborhood of the Minnesota Twin Cities, witnessed by neighbors who did nothing to help: The ghost of Kitty Genovese in St. Paul … and breaking the silence in Afghanistan: As many as 10 people witnessed a man raping and beating a woman early Tuesday in

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• Somalia's Prime Minister brands new Opposition Alliance "troublemakers and terrorists"

  Published: September 14, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Somalia, Terrorists

  Somalia's prime minister branded members of a new opposition alliance "troublemakers and terrorists" Friday as a monthslong insurgency in this beleaguered capital continued unabated, killing seven people overnight. The violence... which came on the first night of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan... pitted insurgents against police, killing six

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• Kenya: Exiled Somali Rap Artists Waayaha Cusub

  Published: September 14, 2007, 9:28 pm

  Tags: Somalia, Arts

  Somalis in exile send home rap tracks of peace Hip-hop group Waayaha Cusub, or ‘New Era,’ is gaining the ear of Somalis from as far away as the US and Europe, but their controversial message challenges traditional norms and is attracting threats of violence. Matthew Clark (The Christian Science Monitor) With audio slide show.

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• *Poke Poke Poke*

  Published: September 16, 2007, 2:54 pm

  Tags: Proxy War, Punk, Africa, Icu, Imperialism, Somalia, Realism, Video, Gwot, Bloggy Mcbloggerson, Friends, Human Rights Watch, Ethiopia, Al Qaeda

  harbourin ur Al Qaedaz in Somalia - surgical strikes FTW!!111 Oops, sry - we missed.) Related: Human Rights Watch also fails to see the inherent wisdom of “realism” (to the bellicose consternation of the Ethiopian Gov’t); Eric Martin on “Green Zone 2.0” and other all-too-familiar scenarios occurring in the

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• Hey Darfur, Eat My Dust!

  Published: September 27, 2007, 10:26 am

  Tags: Somalia, Darfur, Africa, United Nations

  made conditions worse in Somalia than in Darfur and Chad, the Los Angeles Times said Wednesday. Somalia leads another list, too: Sleaze is hobbling the recovery of war-ravaged countries like Iraq and Somalia, which joined Myanmar among states perceived as the world’s most corrupt, an anti-graft watchdog reported Wednesday. I don’t

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• Somalis Continue to Flee Violence in Mogadishu

  Published: September 29, 2007, 6:58 am

  Tags: World, Mogadishu, Somali Refugees, Somalia, Violence In Mogadishu

  The U.N. refugee agency says it has begun distributing much-needed relief supplies for some 24,000 people in the Somali town of Afgooye, 30 kilometers west of the capital Mogadishu. The UNHCR reports families are still fleeing Mogadishu every day due to an increase in violence.

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• WORLD IN BRIEF

  Published: October 11, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: World, Brief, Africa, Darfur, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, International Space Station, Minni Arcua Minnawi, Mogadishu, Rudolf Blechschmidt, Assistance Association For Political Prisoners, Malaysia, Oxfam International, Poland, Somalia, Sudan, Sudan Liberation Movement, Tha

  Africa's nearly two dozen wars in recent decades have robbed the continent of about $18 billion a year that could have gone to helping one of the world's poorest regions build stronger economies, according to a report being released Thursday.

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• An American Citizen Training Islamist Militants

  Published: October 12, 2007, 7:32 am

  Tags: Usa, Global Jihad, Somalia

  the situation in Somalia. After 15 years of chaos and oppresive rule by the american-backed warlords, your brothers stood up and stablished peace and justice in this land.Voice of Reporter: Abu Mansur is not only a fighter, but also the military instructor of the Islamic Courts Union fighters...Via

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• Joe Conason and Wes Clark: Neocons planned to take out seven countries in five years.

  Published: October 14, 2007, 5:23 pm

  Tags: Joe Conason, Wes Clark, Neocons, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, Libya, Sudan, Energy, Oil

  Joe Conason reports that a passage in Wes Clark's book suggests that the Neocons planned to take out seven different countries within five years as part of their plan to establish a New American Century. The countries included Iran, Iraq, Syria,

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• Seoul’s Geopolitics of Ransom

  Published: October 15, 2007, 8:11 am

  Tags: Africa, Central Asia, East Asia, Politics, Afghanistan, Hostages, Kidnapping, Korea, Rok, Saemmul, Somalia, Taliban

  matter, the 4 Koreans in Somalia aren?t getting that much media attention, and as a result the Korean government may have decided to ?forget? about the hostages and hope that the problem will go away. Rather than a matter of public support for dumb evangelicals, perhaps it’s cost-benefit analysis. It’s a matter of how to use

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• The Forgotten War On Terror- The Tragedy of Somalia

  Published: October 15, 2007, 8:48 pm

  Tags: Somalia, Ethiopia, Channel 4, Nima Elgbagir, Islamic Insurgents, Itn

  graphic report from Somalia.From Channel 4-So why isn't the international community doing more? Maybe it's because footage like this rarely makes it's way onto our screens. The journalists of Somalia have themselves become a target.On August 11, Mahed Ahmed Elmi was shot outside his office at Horn Afrik television station. As his funeral

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• WORLD IN BRIEF

  Published: October 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: World, Brief, India, United States, Myanmar, Northern Ireland, Manmohan Singh, Somalia, George W Bush, London, Malacca, Nicholas Burns, Rama Lakshmi, Robin Wright, Southeast Asia, Tom Casey, Bharatiya Janata Party, Indonesia, International Chamber Of Commerce, Japan, Nige

  Indian politicians and analysts reacted cautiously Tuesday to an apparent breakdown in a controversial India-U.S. nuclear deal, saying the fate of any agreement might become clearer next week.

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• UN pulls out of Somalia after official's abduction

  Published: October 17, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Relief Aid Organisations, World Politics, Somalia

  The UN says it has stopped distributing food in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, after government troops abducted the local head of the World Food Program.

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• Somali forces shut radio station after Islamist interview

  Published: October 18, 2007, 3:46 am

  Tags: Somalia

  The forces ordered Mogadishu-based Simba Radio off the air and arrested its chief Abdullahi Ali Farak and a journalist, according to a reporter who works there. The radio on Wednesday evening interviewed Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, a radical Islamist leader, who said he was behind a suicide attack earlier in the day on an Ethiopian army base near a

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