Tag: Somalia.
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UN Security Council to hold Somalia meeting Tuesday
United Nations, United States, Feb 9 (AFP/APP):The UN Security Council will meet to discuss Somalia’s political crisis, diplomatic sources said Monday, after opposition leaders in the East African country declared the president illegitimate. Tuesday’s closed-door meeting was requested by Britain, which is this month heading the Council, sources said. Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, better…
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Somalia’s leaders fail to break deadlock over the country’s elections
Somalia,(AFP/APP): Somalia’s leaders Saturday failed to break a deadlock over the country’s elections, with no clear path to a vote just days before the government’s mandate expires. The fragile country is likely to miss a February 8 deadline to choose a new president after days of negotiations between the central government and federal states collapsed Friday. The impasse could…
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Somalia leaders fail to reach deal on elections: govt
Somalia’s emergency political talks have ended without agreement on how to proceed with elections
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East African Leaders Meet to Calm Ethiopia & Kenya-Somalia Tensions
East African leaders have met to calm Ethiopia & Kenya-Somalia tensions.
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Somalia and Kenya Strengthening Ties
Mogadishu, Dec 15 (AFP/APP): Somalia announced Tuesday it was severing diplomatic ties with Kenya and recalling its foreign service staff from Nairobi over what it called “recurring” interference in its internal affairs. Trump ally gets sentenced amid presidential meddling row “The government took this decision to respond to recurring outright political violations and interference by…
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Pakistan Among Largest & Most Effective UN Troops Contributing Country: ISPR
ISPR says that Pakistan remains among the largest and most effective UN troops contributing country.
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Somali Government Denies Cuban Doctors Have Been Freed
The Somali government has denied that the Cuban doctors have been freed.
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Somali militants kill 3 Americans in attack on Kenya military base
Nairobi, Jan 6 (AFP/APP): Militant from Somalia on Sunday stormed a military base used by United States forces in Kenya’s coastal Lamu region, killing three American citizens and destroying several aircraft and military vehicles, officials said. Attackers breached heavy security at Camp Simba at dawn but were pushed back and four militantts killed, said army…
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Al-Shabaab militants claim huge Mogadishu bomb attack
Mogadishu, Dec 31 (AFP/APP): Al-Shabaab militants have claimed responsibility for Saturday’s massive car bomb in the Somali capital Mogadishu that killed 81 people, including two Turkish citizens. The attack hit a busy checkpoint in the southwest of the city, leaving vehicles charred and twisted at a crossroads in the deadliest assault in two years in…
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Five killed in militants attack on Somali hotel
Mogadishu, Dec 11 (AFP/APP): Five people including three civilians were killed when militants stormed a hotel in Somalia’s capital, police said Wednesday, adding that all five attackers had also died after an hours-long siege. The attack on Tuesday evening, claimed by the al-Shabaab, took place at a hotel in Mogadishu popular with politicians, army officers…