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Security Council divided over Somalia arms embargo
UNITED NATIONS (Sh.M.Network) — The UN Security Council on Wednesday renewed the mandate of an African peacekeeping force in Somalia for just four months amid a dispute over an arms embargo against the strife-torn
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U.N. Security Council extends Somalia peacekeeping force
UNITED NATIONS (Sh.M.Network) – The U.N. Security Council extended an African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia for four months on Wednesday as it mulls lifting an arms embargo and Uganda threatens to pull out
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Govt. soldier gun down a civilian driver in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU (Sh.M.Network)—Armed man dressed in government army uniform has shot and killed a civilian driver in Mogadishu, the latest in a string of killings in the capital over the last few months. According to
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AMISOM Statement on the Issue of Charcoal
MOGADISHU (Sh.M.Network)—AMISOM regrets reports that charcoal is being exported out of Somalia in violation of United Nations Security Council resolution 2036 and Somali national law. Although AMISOM is not mandated to scrutinize commercial activities
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Car bomb kills a soldier, injures 3 in Somali capital
MOGADISHU (Sh.M.Network)—A powerful car bomb has killed at least one person and injured three in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, Witnesses and police said. A luxury vehicle packed with explosives went off at parking
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Govt. forces carry out massive crackdown in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU (Sh.M.Network)—Somali security forces carried out on Tuesday a house to house search in Mogadishu, arresting dozens of suspected Al-Shabaab militants together with their weapons, police said. The operations occurred in Yaqshid district early
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Bomb blast wounds two in Kenyan capital
NAIROBI (Sh.M.Network)—At least two people have been wounded in the Kenyan capital when a bomb was set off in the Eastleigh neighbourhood of Nairobi, the latest in a string of attacks, police say. “Two
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U.S. expects Uganda to stay in Somalia
NAIROBI (Sh.M.Network)— The United States expects Uganda to keep its peacekeeping forces in Somalia, despite a threat to withdraw in protest at a U.N. report accusing Kampala of aiding rebels in eastern Congo, a
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Former Somali PM hails the new cabinet ministers
ROMA (Sh.M.Network)—Nur Hassan Hussein (Nur Adde) former TFG prime minister has welcomed the nomination of the new cabinet ministers proposed by Abdi Farah Shirdon, Somali PM last Sunday, after weeks of in-depth consultations with
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Big rally in Mogadishu in support of the new cabinet
MOGADISHU (Sh.M.Network) —Hundreds of demonstrators, including women and children took to the main streets in the capital, to show their full support of the newly designated leaner cabinet ministers by the Somali Prime Minister
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