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/ 7 September 2009
Sudan’s central government could owe its semi-autonomous south hundreds of millions of dollars in oil revenue, a watchdog group said on Monday.
Eritrea brushed off a US threat of sanctions on Friday and said Washington is exacerbating the conflict in neighbouring Somalia.
A cargo ship loaded with humanitarian aid was headed to Kenya under US Navy escort on Wednesday after escaping Somali pirates.
Somali pirates have hijacked another vessel in the Horn of Africa, a freighter seized overnight in the Gulf of Aden, security contractors said.
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/ 30 January 2009
Somali pirates have hijacked a German tanker loaded with liquefied petroleum gas off the Horn of Africa. The ship’s 13-man crew was reported safe.
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/ 10 December 2008
Ahmed Dahir Suleyman is cagey as he talks about the global network that funds and supports piracy off the coast of Somalia.
Hundreds of furious protesters crowded the streets of Mogadishu on Saturday, burning tires, smashing car windows and shouting that they will not give up their guns despite the government’s call for total disarmament. At least two people were killed, including a 13-year-old boy, hospital officials said.
Islamic-movement fighters who have been hiding in Mogadishu since their movement’s main force was driven from the capital say they will heed al-Qaeda’s calls for guerrilla attacks and suicide bombings against troops from Ethiopia, a country with a large Christian population whose military was key to their defeat.
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/ 8 November 2006
From ancient ruins in Thailand to a 12th-century settlement off Africa’s eastern coast, prized sites around the world have withstood centuries of wars, looting and natural disasters. But experts say they might not survive a more recent menace: a swiftly warming planet.
A member of a United States-backed secular alliance of warlords fighting for power in Somalia was kicked out of Kenya on Wednesday after police found him staying at a luxury hotel in Nairobi, authorities said. Abdul Rashid Hussein Shiry was taken to the airport for a flight back to neighbouring Somalia.