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Top finance officials meet with bogus Somali delegation

OCT 07, 2006

The Finance Ministry and central bank fall victim to a hoax, receiving a phony Somali delegation that reportedly asked them to transfer billions of do...

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Five Questions for Madina Wasuge

OCT 07, 2006

The New Leader of the City's Anti-Racism Efforts Has Big Dreams for Hamilton and Its Immigrants. As Executive Director of the Centre for Civic Inclusi...

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Somalis protest against new leaders in Kismayo

OCT 07, 2006

KISMAYO, Somalia, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Somali Islamists arrested 35 people and shot in the air to disperse a protest in Kismayo against the new administr...

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Man Kills His Four Children, Injures Wife

OCT 06, 2006

(AP) -- Four children were found dead Friday morning in a housing complex after a man went to police headquarters and said he had killed his family....

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Large numbers of people cross Gulf of Aden despite smuggling crackdown

OCT 06, 2006

SANAA, Yemen, October 6 (UNHCR) – Despite a smuggling crackdown in Somalia, large numbers of people continue to cross the Gulf of Aden, with almost ...

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Nine Muslims dead in Ethiopia riots with Christians

OCT 06, 2006

At least nine Muslims and a number of Christians were killed this week in religious riots in western Ethiopia, the country's main Islamic group said T...

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Dozens of Somali MPs meet Islamists

OCT 06, 2006

Mogadishu, Oct. 5 (Reuters) - A group of Somali lawmakers met powerful Islamists in their Mogadishu stronghold after leaving the temporary capital bec...

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Somalis flee conflict to Kenya, Yemen

OCT 06, 2006

More than 2 000 Somalis have fled across the border to Kenya over the last two days amid reports of advances by Islamist forces on several Juba Valley...

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Somalia militia advance to Kenyan border

OCT 06, 2006

Baidoa, Somalia - Somalia's radical Islamic militia advanced to a border village with Kenya in pickup trucks fitted with machine guns before withdrawi...

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Unveiling Somalia's Islamists

OCT 06, 2006

The Islamist alliance, the Union of Islamic Courts, may have succeeded in gaining control in much of Somalia, but, having defeated the country's warlo...

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