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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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. Read more
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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). Read more
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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. Read more
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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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