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Posted to the web 16 May 2008 Burundi's defense minister, Major-General Niyoyankana Germain, spoke with reports Thursday at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu, the Somali capital. At first, the Burundian Defense Minister condemned an April suicide car bomb attack at the Mogadishu...
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The Point: IS IT A VICTIM OF EMIGRATION?
As chaos engulfs the African nation, many of its wealthiest and best-educated people are leaving - for places such as Minnesota. By Mark Bowden Inquirer Currents Columnist At the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport last week, I was emerging from a concourse when three electric carts driven...
Somalia - Hidden Catastrophe Hidden Agenda
On the rare occasions when the media mention the conflict in Somalia at all, the focus tends to fall on US attempts to hunt down al Qaeda, or on the West’s alleged humanitarian motives. Other priorities were indicated in 1992 when the US political weekly The Nation referred to Somalia as "one of...
Somali children invent war game
A group of young children in a Somali town are playing their own form of the "Cowboys and Indians" game - "Islamists and Ethiopians". This involves them pretending to be Islamist insurgents - setting up roadblocks and attacking passers-by with toy weapons. In recent weeks, the real insurgents -...
A Somali take on an old game - 'Islamists and Ethiopians'
A group of young children in a Somali town are playing their own form of the "Cowboys and Indians" game - "Islamists and Ethiopians". This involves them pretending to be Islamist insurgents - setting up roadblocks and attacking passers-by with toy weapons. In recent weeks, the real insurgents -...
Somali children invent war game
A group of young children in a Somali town are playing their own form of the "Cowboys and Indians" game - "Islamists and Ethiopians". This involves them pretending to be Islamist insurgents - setting up roadblocks and attacking passers-by with toy weapons. In recent weeks, the real insurgents -...
Burundi Defense Chief Visits Mogadishu
Posted to the web 16 May 2008 Burundi's defense minister, Major-General Niyoyankana Germain, spoke with reports Thursday at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu, the Somali capital. At first, the Burundian Defense Minister condemned an April suicide car bomb attack at the Mogadishu...
Ethiopian Troops Buy and Distribute Food In Mogadishu
De Capua debriefer with Alisha Ryu - Download (MP3) De Capua debriefer with Alisha Ryu - Listen (MP3) Somalia, like many other countries, is suffering from high food prices and food shortages. The problem is being made much worse by the country’s huge humanitarian crisis. Wednesday, in the...
Call for inquiry into US role in Somalia
Amnesty International has called for the role of the United States in Somalia to be investigated, following publication of a report accusing its allies of committing war crimes. The human rights group yesterday listed abuses carried out by Ethiopi...
Somalia: Amnesty report "scratches surface of atrocities"
NAIROBI, 7 May 2008 (IRIN) - The Somali government denied claims by a rights group that its forces and their Ethiopian allies were committing atrocities against the civilian population - even as a civil society source said the report did not go far e...
Amnesty Intl: Ethiopian troops in Somalia slit throats of civilians, gouged eyes, gang raped
NAIROBI, Kenya - A leading human rights group on Tuesday accused Ethiopian troops in Somalia of killing civilians and committing atrocities, including slitting people's throats, gouging out eyes and gang-raping women. In a new report, Amnesty Inte...
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