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World
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7/28/2011 12:44:28 PM
Residents in drought-stricken areas struggle to reach camps providing aid as Islamist militants Al-Shabab violently try to prevent the outflow of people but debate among themselves whether to accept Western assistance
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World
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7/28/2011 12:06:31 PM
Over 40 Muslim Americans and 20 Canadians were recruited by the Islamist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia, says congressional report
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World
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7/27/2011 11:45:56 AM
Aid groups are racing against time to deliver humanitarian aid to huger-stricken Somalia while the World Food Programme continued its efforts in airlifting 14 tonnes of food for victims of drought
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World
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7/26/2011 1:02:44 PM
UN aid planes hampered in Kenya amid hopes that aid will have reached Somalia by Wednesday
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World
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International
7/24/2011 11:36:07 AM
UN emergency official Cristina Amaral believes that hunger crisis in Somalia is immoral"
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World
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7/23/2011 1:29:53 PM
Aid agencies are unable to reach more than two million Somalis facing starvation in the famine-struck Horn of Africa country where Islamist insurgents control much of the worst-hit areas, the U.N.'s food agency said on Saturday
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World
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7/22/2011 2:55:31 PM
Somali rebels revoke previous pledge to allow the UN World Food Program to deliver aid, while the UN agency remains adamant about delivering food to the famine stricken areas
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World
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International
7/21/2011 3:38:13 PM
The United Nations has called an emergency meeting on July 25 to discuss mobilising aid for drought-stricken east Africa, where famine has been declared in parts of Somalia
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World
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7/20/2011 12:00:23 PM
The United Nations said Wednesday that famine has hit two parts of rebel-held Somalia, with up to 350,000 people affected in the most severe food crisis in Africa for two decades
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World
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7/19/2011 4:08:06 PM
Arab League Secretary-General Nabil El-Arabi calls for support for those affected by Somali drought
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World
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7/18/2011 4:25:07 PM
Hijacking in the Indian Ocean
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World
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7/18/2011 1:54:49 PM
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World
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7/16/2011 4:39:54 PM
East Africa's worsening famine is one of the largest humanitarian crises in decades, a U.S. State Department official said, pledging "significant" aid despite the debt ceiling impasse being debated in Washington
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World
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International
7/15/2011 3:40:02 PM
Thousands of Somalis have fled in recent months to neighbouring Ethiopia and Kenya in search of food and water as the region suffers what the UN has described as the worst drought in decades
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World
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6/24/2011 11:39:58 AM
Airstrikes strike Somalian convoy carrying militants wounding 3 militants, attackers unknown
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World
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6/19/2011 1:21:04 PM
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Egypt
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6/17/2011 5:18:01 PM
An Egyptian boat seized with its 22-member crew by pirates off the coast of Somalia in August 2010 has been freed, an Egyptian foreign ministry official said on Friday
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World
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6/11/2011 12:51:05 PM
Al Shabab Islamist insurgents announced responsibility for the murder of Somalia's Interior Minister
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World
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6/10/2011 7:06:51 PM
Somali demonstration protesting against deal between president and parliament speaker is met with fire as two boys are killed by the police
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World
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5/9/2011 3:51:07 PM
Islamist Shebab militants ban smoking and alcohol in Somali district, even inside private households
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