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• Moderate Somali Islamist Group Welcomes United Nations Sanctions Against Eritrea

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  A moderate Somali Islamist group Ahlu Sunna Waljama’a has welcomed the move by the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on Eritrea and praised the world body for taking a tough decision against the Horn of Africa nation. A spokesman for the religious group Sheikh Abdulahi Sheikh Abdurahman Abu Yusuf ...
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• Imam Linked to Ft. Hood Rampage Believed Among 30 Al Qaeda Killed in Airstrike

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 139
  A radical Muslim imam linked to the Fort Hood rampage and the leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula are believed to have been killed in a Yemen airstrike that left at least 30 other militants dead, a security official told Reuters on Thursday.Airstrikes in the eastern Shabwa province targeted an Al Qaeda ...
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• Puntland Authorities Vow to Stop Human Trafficking Along Somali Coast

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  The authorities of the semi-autonomous Somali state of Puntland have vowed to end the activities of the notorious human traffickers based in the region. The governor of the coastal Bari region where the human traffickers load thousands of desperate African migrants through the Gulf of Aden said in a press conference ...
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• United Nations Security Council Imposes Sanctions on Eritrea

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  The United Nations Security Council has imposed arms and travel sanctions on Eritrea for supporting insurgents trying to topple the nascent government in nearby Somalia. The resolution, supported by 13 of the 15 members of the Council, places an arms embargo on Eritrea, imposes travel bans on the Horn of Africa ...
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• UN imposes sanctions on Eritrea over support for rebels in Somalia

  
  addisportal.com — Authority: 133
  The United Nations Security Council imposed an arms embargo and other sanctions on Eritrea today in a move that in effect brands the country a pariah state. (more…) Related Posts September 28, 2009 — Fresh appeal for sanctions on Eritrea August 18, 2009 — Eritrea will accept Ethiopia war damages ruling ...
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• Eritrean govt responds to UN Security Council sanctions

  
  propaganda press! freedom now — Authority: 142
  The UN Security Council has today passed a shameful resolution imposing sanctions against Eritrea. The unjustifiable measures imposed on Eritrea include: an arms embargo; the inspection and seizure by Member States in their territory of such cargo to and from Eritrea; and, the imposition of a travel ban, and the ...
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• Somali Government Intercepts Terrorist Funding At Mogadishu Airport

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  The Somali government has disclosed that it intercepted $3.5 million when it was being flown from Mogadishu airport to the northern city of Galkayo. The Somali government Treasury Minister Abdurahman Omar Yarisow showed the money to journalists during a ceremony held at the Mogadishu airport where the amount was ...
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• Somali Government Condemns Ban on Aid Agencies Implemented By Al-Shabab

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  The Transitional Federal Government of Somali has condemned the move by the Alqaeda-linked Alshabab militants to ban the operations of relief agencies in areas under its control. Somali government minister for humanitarian affairs, Mahmoud Ibrahim Garweyne told a press conference in Mogadishu that his government is ...
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• Ethiopian Troops Re-enter Parts of Somalia

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  Hundreds of Ethiopian troops have re-entered parts of central Somalia, APA learned from residents on Saturday. Residents in the town of Balanballe in the central region of Galgadud say that many Ethiopian soldiers and at least nine military vehicles have entered the town where they have made a house-to house search ...
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• American Peace Corps Volunteers Restart Service in Ethiopia

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  41 Americans Peace Corps volunteers have officially started their two year service in Ethiopia. “The forty-one Americans will spend the next two years as Community Health Volunteers in four regions in the country where they will focus on prevention of HIV/AIDS infection, care and support for those affected by the ...
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• WFP and Hunger in Kenya on NBC Nightly News

  
  Friends of the World Food Program: Uniting to End Hunger — Authority: 127
  Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy NBC Nightly News focused on rising temperatures and drought in Kenya last night with a report from the field. Severe, prolonged drought has left the land parched and unable to sustain the animals that many Kenyans rely on for food and ...
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• Human rights: Universal

  
  Oxfam America Blog — Authority: 497
  An activist in Ghana shows a copy of the 2006 Minerals and Mining Act, which allows citizens the right to fair, adequate, and prompt compensation if their land is seized for the purposes of mining. Photo by Chris Hufstader/Oxfam America Today is International Human Rights Day, when we consider for a moment the ...
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• Somali Leader Vows ‘all Out War’ Against Rebels

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  The president of Somalia’s government Sheik Sharif sheik Ahmed has said that time for a big offensive against notorious rebels has come. Talking to units of the country’s newly recruited coastal guards in Mogadishu the president said that Islamist rebels with ties to Al-qaeda have downgraded Somalia’s dignity ...
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• Somali Police Warn of More Terror Attacks

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government is warning of another wave of suicide attacks targeting the presidential palace and other key government installations, police spokesman revealed Monday. Somali police spokesman Colonel Abdullahi Hassan Barise said in a press conference in Mogadishu on Monday that police ...
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• Monday UNICEF pic: Ethiopia

  
  Fieldnotes — Authority: 123
  On Friday, UNICEF released a Humanitarian Action Update for the Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda), where some 500,000 children under the age of five are suffering from severe acute malnutrition due to ongoing drought, chronic food insecurity and conflict. You can see the concern ...
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• Somalia fires heads of police force and military

  
  World Military Forum - Latest Military News — Authority: 137
  MOGADISHU – Somalia’s government fired the head of its police force and its military chief on Sunday two days after a suicide bomber killed three ministers and several others in the capital of the lawless Horn of Africa nation. Somali government soldiers ride on the back of an armed pickup truck next to the ...
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• Somali Bomb Kills Government Ministers In Mogadishu

  
  Abesha Bunna Bet — Authority: 123
  MOGADISHU, Somalia — A suicide bomber disguised in women’s clothing detonated his explosives during a graduation ceremony at an upscale hotel Thursday, killing at least 14 people, including three Cabinet ministers and two journalists. The attack raised new questions about the ability of Somalia’s weak ...
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• A problem from hell – What is the naval coalition doing?

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 527
  The most recent hijacking by Somali sea terrorists of a supertanker, carrying 300,000 tons of crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States, is yet another wake up call for the countries of the nav read more
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• Greek tanker fights off pirates in Arabian Sea (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 739
  Athens, Dec 1 (DPA) Greek authorities said Tuesday that a Greek tanker carrying oil to China successfully fought off a pirate attack in the Arabian Sea.The Ministry of Merchant Marine told DPA that the Greek-flagged vessel Sikinos, with a crew of 24, successfully fought off pirates after coming under gunfire 550 km ...
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• Africorruption, Inc.

  
  Abesha Bunna Bet — Authority: 123
  Transparency International [TI] (the global coalition against corruption) has just released its 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) . Once again, Africa has the dubious honor of being Kleptocracy Central, the continental home of the most corrupt governments in the world. Leading the parade of kleptocracies are ...
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