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About 3,000 Somalis marched through the streets of the war-scarred capital on Friday, celebrating the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops and appealing for peace in a city where thousands of people have died in fighting over the past two years.
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Israeli police officers carry an Ethiopian Jew during a demonstration outside the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008. Over a thousand Jewish Ethiopian immigrants to Israel are demonstrating in Jerusalem for the government to...
