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Somalia Faces Alarming Rise in Rapes of Women and Girls

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jeffrey Gettleman - Dec. 27 (Special Report) - With the famine putting hundreds of thousands of women on the move, more rapes are being reported now in Somalia than at any time in recent memory.

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Planet Likely to Become Increasingly Hostile to Agriculture

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Scientific American - By Douglas Fischer - Dec. 07 (News Report) - YTo get a glimpse of the future, look to East Africa today. The Horn of Africa is in the midst of its worst drought in 60 years: Crop failures have left up to 10 million at risk of famine; social order has broken down in Somalia, with thousands of refugees streaming into Kenya; British Aid alone is feeding 2.4 million people across the region. That's a taste of what's to come, say scientists mapping the impact of a warming planet on agriculture and civilization.

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Somalia denies CIA detention base

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Sep. 09 (News Report) - The centre is alleged to be under the presidential palace in Mogadishu Somalia has dismissed reports that the US runs an underground detention centre where the CIA helps interrogate terror suspects in the capital

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Ethiopia plans ambitious resettlement of people buffeted by East Africa drought

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By William Davison - Aug. 02 (Special Report) - In Ethiopia's rain-starved eastern badlands, livestock is the sole asset for most. Swaddled in robes, pastoralist families traverse huge tracts searching for water and pasture for their herds, uprooting camps as they go. When seasonal rains fail, life becomes a battle for survival.

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Somalia crisis one of 'largest in decades'

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Jul. 16 (News Report) - East Africa's worsening famine is one of the largest humanitarian crises in decades, a US official said, pledging "significant" aid. The US already pledged $5m on Friday to help Somali refugees on top of a previously budgeted $63m. Reuben Brigety, the de

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Somalis flee to Kenya in search of food

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - By Nazanine Moshiri - Jul. 13 (News) - Somali refugees have become the victims of the worst drought to hit the Horn of Africa in nearly 60 years. Faced with starvation and caught in conflict, thousands of Somalis are fleeing their country and heading for Kenya. They have travelled through harsh conditions with little food or water, and no humanitarian assistance. Many head across the border into northern Kenya to seek help at the Dadaab refugee camp.

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Lauded Somalian Prime Minister Resigns Under Pressure

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jeffrey Gettleman - Jun. 19 (News Analysis) - Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, the American-educated’ prime minister of Somalia, resigned Sunday after weeks of pressure to abide by a deal between two other top officials that extends Somalia’s wobbly transitional government for another year. Mr. Mohamed, who studied in Buffalo and served as a commissioner for the Municipal Housing Authority there, was appointed just eight months ago as premier of one of the world’s most chaotic countries. Western diplomats said he had proven himself one of the more capable and professional politicians in Somalia, and attributed his departure to backroom politicking. Earlier this month Somalia’s president, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, and the speaker of parliament, Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden, agreed to sack him as part of their deal to extend the transitional government. Analysts said the speaker wanted to appoint his own cronies to high positions, and though the president was reluctant to see Mr. Mohamed go, he agreed in order to keep his own job.

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Warning: extreme weather ahead

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By John Vidal - Jun. 14 (News Report) - Tornados, wildfires, droughts and floods were once seen as freak conditions. But the environmental disasters now striking the world are shocking signs of 'global weirding' Drought zones have been declared across much of England and Wales, yet Scotland has just registered its wettest-ever May. The warmest British spring in 100 years followed one of the coldest UK winters in 300 years. June in London has been colder than March. February was warm enough to strip on Snowdon, but last Saturday it snowed there. Welcome to the climate rollercoaster, or what is being coined the "new normal" of weather. What was, until quite recently, predictable, temperate, mild and equable British weather, guaranteed to be warmish and wettish, ensuring green lawns in August, now sees the seasons reversed and temperature and rainfall records broken almost every year. When Kent receives as much rain (4mm) in May as Timbuktu, Manchester has more sunshine than Marbella, and soils in southern England are drier than ...

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South Korean Commandos Battle Somali Pirates In Rare Raid

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NPR - Jan. 21 (News) - In a top-secret operation reportedly lasting five hours, South Korean special forces scrambled up a ladder onto a hijacked vessel in the Arabian Sea at dawn and saved all 21 crew members aboard the Samho Jewelry. Eight Somali pirates were killed and five were captured alive.

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Somali-born teen held in Oregon car-bomb plot

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Associated Press Staff - Nov. 27 (News Report) - The young man is arrested after dialing a cell phone that he thought would detonate a van laden with explosives in downtown Portland, authorities say. The van was parked near a Christmas-tree lighting ceremony.

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Somali Pirates Free British Couple

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jeffrey Gettleman - Nov. 14 (News) - A British couple who had been kidnapped by Somali pirates and held in captivity in a remote, swelteringly hot patch of central Somalia for more than a year were finally released, Somali officials said Sunday.

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Dadaab Journal: Somalia’s Wars Swell a Refugee Camp in Kenya

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Josh Kron - Nov. 12 (News Report) - The refugee population in Dadaab, Kenya, has grown to nearly 300,000, virtually all Somali, making it the largest refugee complex in the world.

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U.S. extends temporary status to Somali immigrants

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

San Diego Union Tribune - Nov. 09 (News) - Hundreds of refugees and immigrants from the war-torn nation of Somalia will be allowed to extend their temporary residency in the U.S. through September 2012. Most qualifiers would have had asylum requests rejected for one reason or another, explained Abdi Mohamoud, executive director of the San Diego aid group Horn of Africa.

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In Somali Civil War, Both Sides Embrace Pirates

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jeffrey Gettleman - Sep. 02 (Special Report) - For years, Somalia’s heavily armed pirate gangs seemed content to rob and hijack on the high seas and not get sucked into the messy civil war on land. Now, that may be changing, and the pirates are taking sides — both sides.

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Ugandan toll in World Cup bombings rises to 74

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Max Delany, Jason Straziuso - Jul. 12 (Breaking News) - An al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group suspected in twin bombings in Uganda's capital that hit crowds watching the World Cup final endorsed the attacks Monday but stopped short of claiming responsibility, while the death toll rose to 74.

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'Somali link' as 74 World Cup fans die in Uganda blasts

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jul. 12 (News Report) - The death toll from twin blasts that hit the Ugandan capital as football fans gathered to watch the World Cup final has risen to 74, officials say.

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Pirates, Inc.

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Jay Bahadur - Jul. 01 (Special Report) - Like most Somali pirate gangs, the Victoria outfit was organised into “attackers” – those who carry out the hijacking – and “holders”, or guards taken on board to watch over the ship once it had arrived in Eyl. “The first one to jump on the ship, his name was Abdi,” said Hersi. “Computer bought him a $15,000 Land Cruiser as a gift.”

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Somali "Pirates" Appear in US Court

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Apr. 23 (News) - Eleven Somalis accused of attacking two U.S. Navy ships off the coast of Africa have appeared in a federal court in Virginia on charges of piracy. The men did not enter formal pleas.

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A Guiding Voice Amid the Ruins of a Capital City - NY Times: World

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jeffrey Gettleman - Mar. 30 (Special Report) - Radio Mogadishu is the only relatively free radio station in south central Somalia where journalists can broadcast what they like — without worrying about being beheaded.

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U.S. Aiding Somalia in Its Plan to Retake Its Capital

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jeffrey Gettleman - Mar. 06 (News Report) - American assistance could be crucial to the effort by Somalia’s government to reassert control over the capital and bring order after two decades of anarchy.

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The Jihadist Next Door

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Andrea Elliott - Jan. 29 (Special Report) - In his small-town Alabama high school, Omar Hammami was among the coolest, most gifted students in his class. How did he grow up to become a leader in an African terror group linked to Al Qaeda?

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Somalis fleeing to Yemen prompt new worries in fight against al-Qaeda

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Sudarsan Raghavan - Jan. 12 (News Report) - Thousands of Somali boys and teenagers fleeing war and chaos at home are sailing to Yemen, where officials who have long welcomed Somali refugees now worry that the new arrivals could become the next generation of al-Qaeda fighters.

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Violence, fear and confusion: welcome to the Horn of Africa

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Peter Beaumont - Jan. 10 (Special Report) - In Yemen, Somalia and beyond, the lawless, strife-torn region has provided disturbing evidence that its myriad problems cannot be ignored – and that the west must see the connections between them all It looked like many of the dhows that sail the Gulf of Aden, a nameless boat identifiable only by its registration number – 11S2. This dhow, however, was not carrying fish, or even engaged in the lethal people smuggling trade conducted across these waters. Tracked by Yemeni intelligence officials, it was laden with a quite different cargo that had been loaded at Hes Bes on Somalia?s arid coastline. When it was boarded late last year by Yemeni coastguards, the ship?s captain and his crew of 12 were discovered to be ferrying arms into a ...

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Radical Islam meets a buffer

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Karin Brulliard - Dec. 21 (News Report) - The Saharan sands stretching north from this fabled outpost have long been a trade route and cultural crossroads, and this past year has brought worrying signs that the desert might also help bring a violent brand of Islam to moderate

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Taliban May Benefit From Global Warming

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - Oct. 11 (Special Report) - Worsening drought in Afghanistan playing into the hands of terrorists.

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