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Joint Press Release from the Speaker of Somali Parliament and the Chairman of Executive Committee of the Council of Islamic Courts
H.E. Ali Abdalla Salah, President of Republic of Yemen, has extended to both H.E.Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden, Speaker of the Somali Parliament and H.E. ...
Read More »Battle-scarred nation is at peace with itself . . . but still facing war
She took a morning to track down. The last few hundred yards took us through a maze of narrow alleys hemmed in by corrugated-iron shacks in a Mogadish...
Read More »Somali Islamist says supports talks with govt
ADEN, Yemen, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamists would resume talks with the country's interim government to avoid an escalation of violence, a lea...
Read More »Bush frees refugee funds for Somalia, Sri Lanka
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush has freed 5.215 million dollars in aid to help cope with refugee flows resulting from conflicts in Soma...
Read More »Somali Lawmaker Inks Pact With Islamists
A Somali lawmaker bypassed the government and signed an agreement Saturday to end hostilities with the country's powerful Islamic militia, a symbolic ...
Read More »CANADA CONCERNED OVER SECURITY SITUATION IN SOMALIA
UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com, UN/ - 16 December 2006 -- The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of the Atlantic...
Read More »EU concerned about risk of war in Somalia
BRUSSELS, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) on Saturday expressed its "deepest concern" about the deteriorating security situation in Somali...
Read More »Somali Leader: Door to Peace Talks Shut
Somalia's president said Friday that peace talks with the country's Islamic movement are no longer an option because the group's leaders have declared...
Read More »U.S. says al Qaeda behind Somali Islamists
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali Islamists are under the growing control of an al Qaeda cell in East Africa, a U.S. diplomat said on Thursday, as Washington...
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