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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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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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Economy - Development | Politics | Human rights | Society

Displaced Somalis failed international community, UN rights expert

afrol News, 21 October - Expressing his shock at the level of violence faced by civilians in Somalia, an independent United Nations human rights expert today rebuked the international community for failing the 1.5 million people uprooted from their homes in the Horn of Africa nation.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Politics | Society | Human rights

Somali insurgents regain control in the south

afrol News, 20 August - Insurgents have reportedly taken over a town in southern Somalia from pro-government militiamen following a fierce fighting that killed a dozen people, reports have said today.

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Economy - Development | Politics | Health | Human rights | Society

More Somali refugees moved from overcrowded Kenyan camp

afrol News, 19 August - The first of nearly 13,000 Somali refugees have been moved out of an overcrowded Kenyan camp by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the agency has reported.

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Economy - Development | Politics | Society | Human rights

UN condemns attack on Somali aid compound

afrol News, 17 August - The United Nations has strongly condemned the attack against its aid compound in southern Somalia on Sunday, the fourth time in two months that the world body’s offices in the Horn of Africa nation have been deliberately targeted.

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Economy - Development | Politics | Society | Human rights

AI calls for safeguards on arms transfers to Somalia

afrol News, 12 August - Amnesty International has today called for urgent safeguards to be applied to any arms transfers to Somalia, in the wake of a reported US government decision to double its arms transfers to Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG).

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Politics | Society | Human rights

Somali’s named in Australia terror arrests

afrol News, 4 August - Australian police have said some of the four people arrested in Melbourne today are linked to acts of terror in Somalia.

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Politics | Economy - Development | Society | Human rights

Anti-piracy training planned for Somali forces

afrol News, 28 July - The European Union is expected to send a team to Djibouti next month to assess possibilities of setting up an anti-piracy training for Somali forces.

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Economy - Development | Politics | Society | Human rights

Thousands risk lives to flee Somali’s escalating violence

afrol News, 28 July - Thousands of Somalis fleeing the escalating violence in the capital, Mogadishu, and central Somalia, are making the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden to begin new lives in Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.

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» 21.07.2009 - Islamists order closure of 3 UN agencies
» 17.07.2009 - Aid critical in Somalia, UN
» 15.07.2009 - Aid agencies appeal for $11 million for Somalia
» 14.07.2009 - Foreign journalists abducted in Somalia
» 10.07.2009 - Somalia could fall to opposition hands
» 22.06.2009 - Insurgents vow to attack foreign troops
» 19.06.2009 - UN condemns latest Somali bombing
» 18.06.2009 - Suicide bomb kills security minister in Somalia
» 17.06.2009 - UN probes stolen aid in Somalia
» 09.06.2009 - CPJ calls for protection of journalists in Somalia
» 04.06.2009 - Ethiopia finally admits presence in Somalia
» 28.05.2009 - Japan dispatches two aircrafts to boost surveillance off Somalia
» 27.05.2009 - Military chopper crashes near Somalia
» 27.05.2009 - AU mission in Somali extended until 2010
» 20.05.2009 - Ethiopia rejects Somalia invasion reports

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