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Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... in Somalia, where there has not been a working government since warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.Since the start of last year, more than 8 000 civilians have been killed in fighting between allied Somali government and Ethiopian soldiers and Islamist rebels. Another one million have been driven from their homes.There are many theories about who exactly is behind...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
... is considered.Somalia has experienced almost constant civil conflict since the collapse of Mohamed Siad Barre's regime in January 1991.'Lose patience'"The operation has been extremely expensive so we will have to balance the domestic pressures on the one hand and pressures in Somalia on the other and try to come up with a balanced solution," Mr Meles told the Financial Times.We didn't...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Nairobi - Somali gunmen have released the head of the UN refugee agency's office in Somali capital Mogadishu after two months in captivity, the agency said Wednesday evening. Hassan Mohamed Ali, popularly known as Keynaan, was seized by gunmen on Jun...
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi. During the first half of this decade, factional leader Yusuf Mohamed Siad, better known by his nickname Inda'ade, was notorious in Somalia for engaging in pirate activities and running a lucrative drug and weapons trafficking operation from the city of Merca, the provincial capital of the Lower Shabelle region.Inda'ade joined the country's Islamist...
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Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... activities onshore ." Piracy has been rife off Somalia since warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. Experts say at least 30 ships have been hijacked off the coast so far this year -- and the attacks have hit unprecedented levels this month. "It's crazy. We have never seen anything like it in our years of tracking them," Mwangura said. " They've broken all records...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... security and lack of a development vision," said lawmaker Ali Abdullahi Osoble.Deputy speaker Mohamed Omar Dalha said that members of parliament have two days to study the motion before voting, which requires 139 votes of the 275 members to pass.It is not certain whether the motion will muster the required majority."I am here to say yes to this motion and sack the current government," said...
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EagleSpeak (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... has not had a central government with any significant power since warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.But shipping companies and piracy experts say that so far, the nations that have the military power to take action under the U.N. mandate, haven't done so. "The U.N. Resolution has done nothing to prevent these attacks," says Pottengal Mukundan, the director of...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... to pursue their targets. Somalia has been in a state of anarchy since the overthrow of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.
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Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
... al-Shabaab activities onshore."Piracy has been rife off Somalia since warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. Experts say at least 30 ships have been hijacked off the coast so far this year -- and the attacks have hit unprecedented levels this month."It's crazy. We have never seen anything like it in our years of tracking them," Mwangura said. "They've broken all records...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
... in the Horn of Africa country, which has been plagued by chaos and civil war since dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was toppled in 1991.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
... Horn of Africa country, which has been plagued by chaos and clan-based civil war since dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was toppled in 1991.
