Economy - Development | Politics | Human rights Ethiopia govt dismisses capture claims
afrol News, 16 November - The Ethiopian government has dismissed claims by Ogaden rebels to have captured seven towns in the oil rich region located in south eastern of Ethiopia, government statement has revealed. Read more
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Politics | Society | Human rights Somali judge shot dead
afrol News, 12 November - Somali rebels have gunned down a judge known for jailing pirates and members the country’s radical Islamist group al-Shabab in Bossaso, a port in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region, government officials have confirmed. Read more
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Agriculture - Nutrition | Economy - Development Somalia's main export market reopened
afrol News, 5 November - Saudi Arabia officials have announced that the 9-year ban on import of livestock from Somalia, including Somaliland, is lifted. Thus, Somalia's main export trade may be resumed, promising much needed revenues for Somali farmers.
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Media Somalis push for liberalised media law
afrol News, 4 November - Stakeholders from the Somali press, government and civil society are negotiating changes to the 2007 media law, with an aim of reforming the so-called "repressive articles" and secure greater press freedom in the country.
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Politics | Human rights Insurgents search for US airplane wreckage
afrol News, 19 October - Somali insurgents are searching for the wreckage of the United States drone aircraft shot down off the southern port of Kismayo earlier today, Sheikh Hassan Yacqub, spokesman for the al Shabaab rebels in Kismayo. Read more
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Economy - Development | Politics | Society | Human rights Somalia must be stable and well organised by August 2011, UN envoy
afrol News, 13 October - A professional, well-organised security force must be established in Somalia by August 2011, the end of the mandate of the current Transitional Federal Government (TFG), if peace and stability are to be assured, the top United Nations envoy for the strife-torn country said yesterday. Read more
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Politics | Society | Human rights Somalis need more support to talk, UN envoy
afrol News, 30 September - It seems that in recent months some of those fighting Somalia’s government are coming to understand the impact of the violence on the people of the struggling Horn of Africa nation, a senior United Nations official said today. Read more
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Society | Politics | Human rights UN chief condemns AU base bomb attack
afrol News, 17 September - The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned today’s suicide bombing at an African Union compound in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, which has left at least nine peacekeepers dead. Read more
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Economy - Development | Politics | Human rights | Society 16 Somalis die in an attempt to reach Yemen
afrol News, 2 September - Sixteen Somalis have died over the weekend trying to start fresh lives in Yemen, joining hundreds of others who have lost their lives this year making the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden, the United Nations refugee agency reported yesterday. Read more
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