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| Eritrea | Somalia Politics Eritrea blames US for Somali piracy afrol News - The Eritrean Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement has blamed Washington's alleged policy of "balkanising Somalia" for being the root cause behind piracy off the Somali coast, adding that breakaway Somaliland and Puntland must return to Somalia to create a forceful unit. |
Society | Human rights Rebels will not go unpunished - ICC afrol News - International Criminal Court prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Dafuris rebels responsible for an attack on African Union Peacekeepers in September last year would not go unpunished. |
| Somalia Society | Politics | Human rights Hong Kong cargo ship hijacked in Somali waters afrol News - Armed pirates have seized a Hong Kong cargo ship with 25 of its crew members in Gulf of Aden, China's maritime search rescue centre confirmed today. A ship, Delight was headed for Bandar Abbas Iran reportedly carrying 36,000 tons of wheat. |
Culture - Arts | Science - Education 1.3 million year old human fossil found in Ethiopia afrol News - Archaeologists have found what they term "an important new fossil of a Homo erectus female pelvis from approximately 1.3 million years ago" in Ethiopia. The fossil is expected to "reveal important new information about human evolution," researchers say. |
| Somalia Politics Somali Islamists close in on Mogadishu afrol News - A new town, only 17 kilometres outside the capital, has been captured by Somali Islamists, shortly after they seized of the port of Marka, some 90 kilometres outside Mogadishu. The militant wing of the Islamist movement is rapidly gaining ground again. |
| Somalia Politics | Human rights Somali militants seize Merka port afrol News - Islamic militants have taken over Merka, a port city located about 90 kilometres south-west of Somali's capital Mogadishu today. |
| Sudan Politics Sudanese people's initiative calls for new Darfur ceasefire afrol News - Sudan People's Forum, a government sponsored initiative, has called a new ceasefire in war torn Darfur region. |
| Chad | Sudan Politics Sudan-Chad restore relations afrol News - Sudan and Chad have finally restored diplomatic ties on Sunday with exchange of ambassadors after six months of political division. |
| Kenya | Somalia Society | Human rights | Politics Italian nuns kidnapped in Kenya afrol News - Unidentified Somali bandits have allegedly kidnapped two Italian nuns in northern Kenya in a pre dawn border raid, local government officials said. |
| Somalia Society | Politics | Human rights Six killed in AU peacekeepers base attack afrol News - Gunfight in Somali's capital Mogadishu has killed six people wounding dozens of others after insurgents attacked African Union peacekeepers base, witnesses have said. |
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