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A Chinese ship with 146 people aboard was hijacked Monday in the Indian Ocean, the European Union Naval Force said.
The bulk carrier De Xin Hai was hijacked around noon about 550 nautical miles northeast of the Seychelles and 700 nautical miles off...
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As Somalis struggle to survive the chaos that has overtaken their country, a network of companies that distribute money from the nation’s large diaspora has quietly...
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Somali pirates on Wednesday seized a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean with 22 crew members on board, the European Union Naval Force said.
Naval spokesman Cmdr. John...
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Hundreds of people have attended a wedding in central Somalia between a man who says he is 112 years old, and his teenage wife.
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PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has warned Islamist rebels who threatened to attack Kampala that they will pay a heavy price if they did so.
“Those groups, I would advise...
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The poor Somali people- not only are they living in chaos and subjected to violence, the once moderate Muslims are now being subjected to the indignities and religious...
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Somalia’s hardline Muslim extremists have ordered women to shake their breasts to determine if they are wearing “un-Islamic” bras.
The orders have been...
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The winners of a quiz organised by Somali Islamists have been given weapons and ammunition as prizes.
Prizes included AK-47 assault rifles, hand grenades and an...
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Where in the Q’ran does it proclaim it is haram (forbidden) for women to wear pants? Or brassieres? Or burqas? In fact, where in the Q’ran does it forbid...
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Even though the government has denied the information as media rumours, this is the second time that Kenya has been mentioned in issues regarding the militia and the...
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Somalia’s Shebab Islamist group has growing links with Al-Qaeda and poses a potential threat to foreign interests by radicalising Western youths, a leading expert...
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Six masked men used machetes to carry out amputations on three men accused of robbery by a Somali Islamist court, a witness said Saturday.
Abdulahi Hassan Afrah said...
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Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland has protested to Ethiopia, accusing its forces of carrying out a cross-border undercover operation.
Puntland’s...
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Three foreign workers with the French aid group Action Against Hunger (ACF) were freed Saturday after being held in Somalia since July, a humanitarian agency source...
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Fighting between rival Islamist factions over control of a key Somali port city killed at least five people on Thursday, residents and medical staff said, in the first...
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Somali schools should stop using “un-Islamic” textbooks distributed by the United Nations, a spokesman for the Islamist group al-Shabab has said.
Sheikh...
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Somalia’s Shebab Islamist group has growing links with Al-Qaeda and poses a potential threat to foreign interests by radicalising Western youths, a leading expert...
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Somalia’s junior minister for defence who was briefly held in Uganda has been released, Uganda’s army spokesman says.
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Somali schools should stop using “un-Islamic” textbooks distributed by the United Nations, a spokesman for the Islamist group al-Shabab has said.
Sheikh...
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Muslim leaders and police in Kenya warned yesterday that the country was becoming a “dumping ground” for Somali pirates after the United States handed over 17...
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Rival Islamist groups battled for a central Somali town on Friday, leaving at least 56 militants dead, while the number of new refugees from a month of fighting in the...
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A warning this week from the British aid group Oxfam that the humanitarian crisis in Somalia is the worst in Africa is not new. Last year, the U.N. called the situation...
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