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Created by dipity on Feb 11, 2009
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...have said. "HORRENDOUS, APPALLING" Ban's report also touched on what it said was a "widespread humanitarian crisis" in Somalia, where Islamist rebels have waged a three-year war against the fragile Western-backed transition government and now control large...
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Reuters Alert Net
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N12193665.htm
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Responsible To: Health Director Somalia and Kenya
Works With: Project Coordinators, Health Coordinators, Health Officers and other members of the Merlin Somalia team
Location: 40% in Nairobi (Kenya) and 60% probably based in Hargeisa (Somaliland)
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Relief Web
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/res.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-7YYJKF?OpenDocument&RSS20=07-P
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FILE - This file photo released by the Spanish defense ministry on Nov. 18, 2009 shows crew members of the Spanish trawler Alakrana gathering on deck in a photo taken Tuesday Nov. 17, 2009, off Somalia. The influx of millions of dollars in ransoms has
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San Diego Union-Tribune
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/06/pirate-payoffs-feed-big-money-lifestyle-in-somalia/
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia's most powerful Islamic militant group said Friday it was not responsible for a suicide bomb attack on a university graduation ceremony that killed 22 people.
Map locates Mogadishu, Somalia, where a
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Centre Daily Times
http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1660955.html
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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- The recruits gather in scorching desert hideouts in Somalia, use portraits of President Barack Obama for target practice, learn how to make and detonate bombs, and vow allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
Training camps in the
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ReadingEagle.com
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_SOMALIA_TRAINING_CAMPS?SITE=PAREA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- The bullet hit mother and son as they walked through Somalia's capital. She felt a sharp pain in her palm. Then she saw her 8-year-old: The bullet tore through his cheekbones, nose and mouth. Blood gushed down to his waist.
Two
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ReadingEagle.com
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_SOMALIA_FACE_OF_WAR?SITE=PAREA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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An American private military and security company deploys to Somalia as the first US presence in the country since the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, Jody Ray Bennett writes for ISN Security Watch.
Tensions rose in Somalia in the final weeks of October 2009
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ISN
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/.?ots591=4888CAA0-B3DB-1461-98B9-E20E7B9C13D4&lng=en&id=109808
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(Hagadera Refugee Camp, Kenya) For months, 18-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi had dodged the mortar shells that whizz daily through Mogadishu, the war-ravaged capital of Somalia. The one that finally drove him from Somalia tore though his family's house and
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Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/11/16/kenya-recruits-somali-refugees-fight-islamists-back-home-somalia
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The president of Somalia said Saturday his government is challenged by terrorism - whichhe called a "foreign idea" - and asked the Somali diaspora support him as he struggles to create peace in his war-torn country.
President
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KTUU
http://www.ktuu.com/global/story.asp?s=11251948
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FBI are investigating whether an American Somali was involved in a suicide bombing on a peacekeeping base in Somalia that killed 21 people, a family friend said Friday.
Abdirahman Warsame told The Associated Press that FBI agents in the city of
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1253663.html
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An African Union envoy pleaded for more international aid Friday to stabilize Somalia after an attack by Islamic insurgents on an AU peacekeeping base killed 21 people. It was the deadliest single attack on the peacekeepers since they arrived in 2007.
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Pakistan News.net
http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=28205002&cat=2411cd3571b4f088
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NAIROBI, Kenya — An African Union envoy pleaded for more international aid Friday to stabilize Somalia as the death toll from an attack by Islamic insurgents on an AU peacekeeping base rose to 21, making it the deadliest single
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Centre Daily Times
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AfricaFocus Bulletin
Sep 15, 2009 (090915)
(Reposted from sources cited below)
A U.S. commando raid in Somalia on Sept. 14 reportedly killed Kenyan
Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, accused of links with al-Qaeda and of
responsibility for a terrorist truck bomb
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Pambazuka
http://www.africafocus.org/docs09/som0909.php
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US special forces in helicopters attacked a car in southern Somalia yesterday and killed one of east Africa's most wanted al-Qaeda militants, Somali and US sources said.
Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan (28) was suspected of building the truck bomb
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Irish Times
http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/851/f/10838/s/623899e/l/0L0Sirishtimes0N0Cnewspaper0Cbreaking0C20A0A90C0A9150Cbreaking20Bhtm/story01.htm
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The Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (Contact Group) held its fourth meeting in New York City on 10 September 2009, under the Chairmanship of Japan.
The Contact Group welcomes the significant reduction in the rate of successful attacks
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News Blaze
http://newsblaze.com/story/20090911162343stat.nb/topstory.html
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- At least 24 people were killed in fighting that pitted Islamist insurgents against government forces and African Union peacekeepers in Somalia's capital Friday, witnesses and medical staff said.
Residents were hiding in their
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The State
http://www.thestate.com/world/story/910763.html?RSS=untracked
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Loading ammunition into the magazine of his AK-47 assault rifle, the young
suicide bomber looked straight into the camera. “Jihad is real,” he said.
“There’s no way you can understand the sweetness of jihad until you come to
jihad.”
His accomplice
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Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6788623.ece
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Thursday with Somali President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed and warned that the Islamist extremists who control much of the country are linked to al-Qaida and want to use Somalia as a base to attack other countries "near
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NPR
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(AP)
On a seven-nation tour of Africa this week, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will pledge more U.S. assistance, including military aid, to Somalia's shaky government as it fights for survival against Islamist extremists.
U.S. officials
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CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/02/ap/politics/main5204880.shtml
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"If not now, then when? If the Council does not act, then who will?" asked Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia, today as he called on the international community to take immediate action to stabilize the
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Relief Web
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MYAI-7UF3CT?OpenDocument&RSS20=18-P
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Piracy has been drawing huge attention to Somalia's shores in the past few years, but this is just one part of the country's complex profile. Somalia has been without an effective government since the collapse of its socialist system in 1991. Since
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-ryan/somalia-focus-qa-on-pirat_b_243902.html
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Good morning, Honored Guests and Ladies and Gentlemen. It is my pleasure to be with you today here at the esteemed Chatham House in London.
Firstly, I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the people and Government of the
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AllAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/stories/200907150762.html
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Isiolo, Kenya - A smattering of wispy clouds dots the blue sky as white-robed worshipers trickle into Taqwa mosque for Friday prayers. Our
car is parked outside the mosque, slightly hidden by a hedgerow of tangled savannah brush that defines the
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Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0714/p10s01-woaf.html
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Condemning the renewed attacks against Somalia's fledgling unity Government and war-weary civilian population by Al Shabaab and other violent opposition groups, the Security Council today demanded an immediate end to that offensive, saying it would
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Relief Web
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/ASHU-7TT3DQ?OpenDocument&RSS20=18-P
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Programme: Gedo Health Consortium (GHC)
Responsible To: Functionally: The Director, (GHC)
Technically: Merlin HQ Health Advisor
Responsible For: Clinical Services Coordinator, Public Health Coordinator, District Medical Officers
Location: Nairobi with
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Relief Web
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/res.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-7TGMGB?OpenDocument&RSS20=07-P
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Washington — A background briefing by a senior official of the United States Department of State in Washington, DC on June 26, 2009:
SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL: Thank you all very much for coming this afternoon. I know that many of you are very
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AllAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/stories/200906270025.html
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WASHINGTON The Obama administration has decided to bolster efforts to support Somalia's embattled government by providing money for weapons and helping the military in neighboring Djibouti train Somali forces, U.S. officials said Thursday.The
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KansasCity.com
http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/1279605.html
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MOGADISHU, Somalia A court run by an extremist Islamic group sentenced four Somali men on Monday to each have a hand and a leg cut off for allegedly stealing mobile phones and guns. The ruling prompted an outcry from human rights activists.The
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KansasCity.com
http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/1265943.html
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Islamic insurgents attacked an African Union peacekeeping base in Somalia's capital early Wednesday, killing at least three, as regional leaders met to discuss ways of aiding the beleaguered government.
Militants
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Centre Daily Times
http://www.centredaily.com/news/world/story/1299435.html
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MOGADISHU, Somalia—Witnesses said Tuesday that Ethiopian troops have crossed the border into war-ravaged Somalia and appear to be stationing themselves in a town at a strategic crossroads. Ethiopia denied the reports.
A witness said he saw 12 military
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Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2009/05/19/ethiopia_denies_its_troops_entered_somalia?rss_id=Boston.com+--+World+news
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I was lecturing on a cruise ship in the Gulf of Aden earlier in the year. Since I have never minded living on the edge, I was probably the only one of P&O Arcadia's 2,000 passengers faintly disappointed that we weren't attacked by pirates. But if the
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Daily Mail - UK
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1183308/MARTIN-BELL-After-lifetimes-travels-Ive-end-world--Somalias-pirate-coast.html?ITO=1490
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International donors pledged more than $250 million Thursday to strengthen Somalia's security forces and try to stop the rampant attacks by armed Somali pirates that have plagued one of the world's most important waterways.
Somalia's
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eTaiwan News
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* International donors pledge aid for Somalia
* Hardline Islamist opposition leader Aweys back in Somalia
* Aweys calls for unity among Somalis
By David Brunnstrom and Timothy Heritage
BRUSSELS, April 23 (Reuters) - Somalia's government won
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Reuters Alert Net
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Corrects throughout to reflect information from CARE that man shot dead is a former employee of the agency and that it suspended operations in south-central Somalia
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped three aid workers, believed to include a Belgian
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Reuters
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~3/MxPN30ggZA0/idUSTRE53J1FU20090420
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WASHINGTON, Apr 13 (OneWorld.net) - Despite the recent formation of a
new government, Somalia "remains the site of the world's worst
humanitarian crisis," writes a refugee advocacy group.
After U.S. forces rescued this weekend U.S. ship
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OneWorld.net
http://us.oneworld.net/article/361700-somalia-political-progress-humanitarian-stalemate
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Page last updated at 13:55 GMT, Monday, 13 April 2009 14:55 UK
Donald Payne was escorted by African Union peacekeepers
A US congressman has had a narrow escape on a visit to Mogadishu after Somali insurgents fired mortars towards his plane as it was
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BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/africa/7996795.stm
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Now that the crisis has passed with the Maersk Alabama and Captain Richard Phillips, along with three of the four pirates holding him, we need to determine how to avoid this in the future. Fred Iklé has a couple of common-sense suggestions in the
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Hot Air
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http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/13/how-do-we-stop-piracy/
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The hijacking of the Alabama offers President Obama an exceptional opportunity to act resolutely, justly, and effectively in reducing the likelihood of more attacks against American--and other--ships off the increasingly dangerous coast of east Africa,
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MyDD
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NAIROBI, Kenya—Navy Seal snipers on the fantail of a destroyer cut down three Somali pirates in a lifeboat and rescued an American sea captain on Easter Sunday. The surprise nighttime assault in choppy seas ended a five-day standoff between a team of
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Boston Globe
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2009/04/13/kidnapped_us_captain_freed_snipers_kill_3_pirates?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news
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U.S. warships and helicopters stalked a lifeboat holding an American sea captain and his four Somali captors Sunday, while his crew briefed FBI agents about how they fought off the pirates who boarded their ship.
In this frame made from TV,
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eTaiwan News
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=918254&lang=eng_news&cate_img=logo_world&cate_rss=WORLD_eng
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Contrary to common perception, the swift and coordinated international response to piracy off Somalia’s coast has been less of a success than reports make it out to be. In fact, it masks deeper problems of unfairness in international economic order and
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YaleGlobal
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=12210
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...of Africa state, which Washington fears could become a safe haven for extremists linked to al Qaeda. REUTERS/Ismail Taxta (SOMALIA) REF: RTXDOTR_MAIN_PICTURE9 REUTERS/Feisal Omar (SOMALIA) Men look at their house after it was hit by an artillery...
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Reuters Alert Net
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"We judge the terrorist threat to US interests in East Africa, primarily from al Qaeda and al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic extremists in Somalia and Kenya, will increase in the next year as al Qaeda’s East Africa network continues to plot operations
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The Long War Journal
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/03/somalias_rising_tide.php
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Al-Shabaab (aka the Harakat Shabaab al-Mujahidin, al-Shabab, Shabaab, the Youth, Mujahidin al-Shabaab Movement, Mujahideen Youth Movement, Mujahidin Youth Movement), is an Islamic organization that controls much of southern Somalia, excluding the
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Council on Foreign Relations
http://feeds.cfr.org/~r/publication/backgrounder/~3/jcPBpyGMyuE/alshabaab.html
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THE most smashed-up country in the world has reached a crossroads. The recent election of a moderate Islamist, Sharif Ahmed (pictured above), as Somalia’s new president may offer the best chance of peace in the country for more than a decade. As head
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13185216&fsrc=rss
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During the week of February 16, Sh. Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the weak protagonist in Somalia's political situation and president of the country's recently expanded Transitional Federal Government (T.F.G.), made his first moves to establish control over the
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AllAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/stories/200902250003.html
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Hat tip to Suranee. Courtesy of The Media Line Staff
Mogadishu, Somalia (THE MEDIA LINE/A.M.) Gule - Dozens of Somali children have left the United States in secret to join the Islamist fight against the foreign forces in Somalia.
The largest group
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Red County
http://www.redcounty.com/sarasota/2009/02/american-somali-children-leave/
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I. Post Information
Job Title: Head of Resident Coordinator’s Office / Strategic Planner - Somalia
Contract Type: Fixed Term (200 Series)
Level: L5
Supervisor: Resident Coordinator
Duration: One Year renewable
Duty Station: Nairobi (with frequent
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Relief Web
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/res.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-7PFKYN?OpenDocument&RSS20=07-P
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U.S.-BACKED Ethiopian troops withdrew from their remaining positions in Somalia at the end of January, bringing an end to a two-year occupation carried out in the guise of the "war on terror."
The Ethiopian Army invaded Somalia in December 2006,
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Global Research
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=WEN20090215&articleId=12318
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U.S.-BACKED Ethiopian troops withdrew from their remaining positions in Somalia at the end of January, bringing an end to a two-year occupation carried out in the guise of the "war on terror."
The Ethiopian Army invaded Somalia in December 2006,
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Counterpunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/wengraf02132009.html
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