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FIFA CONFIRMS SUCCESSFUL “TOUCH THE WORLD” INITIATIVE IN SOMALIA
With the conclusion of the first ever FIFA grassroots coaching course in Somalia on Monday 19th of August 2013, the world football governing body has confirmed the successful implementation of President Blatter’s ‘touch
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UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Somalia, Nicholas Kay on the allegations of rape in AMISOM facility
SRSG Nicholas Kay expresses grave concern over allegations of rape at an AMISOM military facility. He welcomes the announcements by the Federal Government of Somalia and by AMISOM of the establishment of an investigation
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Veteran Somalia radio technician shot dead in Mogadishu
Three assailants killed veteran radio technician Ahmed Sharif Hussein outside of his home in the Shibis neighborhood of Mogadishu on Saturday, according to news reports and local journalists. Unidentified gunmen, disguised as school students,
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Nairobi flights resume after blaze
Some international flights landed at Nairobi airport on Thursday after a devastating airport fire gutted the main terminal at Kenya’s most important hub for business travelers and tourists. The airport is also the main
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Somalia inks oil deal with British ex-Tory leader
Somalia’s government signed an oil and gas exploration deal on Tuesday with a British company chaired by a former leader of Britain’s Conservative party, ministry and company officials said. Soma Oil and Gas,
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MEETING OF THE HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE TROOP CONTRIBUTING COUNTRIES OF THE AFRICAN UNION MISSION IN SOMALIA (AMISOM), ETHIOPIA AND SOMALIA: KAMPALA, UGANDA; 4TH AUGUST 2013
A meeting of the Heads of State and Government of the Troop Contributing Countries (TCCs) to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), Ethiopia and Somalia took place in Kampala, Uganda on Sunday, 4th
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Somalia’s Puntland breaks off relations with central government
Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region said on Monday it had cut all ties with the central government in a likely setback to efforts to pacify the Horn of Africa Country as it emerges from two
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SA condemns attack on Turkey’s Somalia office
South Africa has strongly condemned a bomb attack which targeted a building housing Turkish Embassy staff in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. The offensive, carried out by Al-Shabaab militia on the evening of
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Nine Somali pirates for attacking German ship
The men were arrested by international anti-piracy forces before being handed over to Kenya to be prosecuted, as Somalia was not considered able to try them properly. Although the number of attacks has
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Somalia prime minister says a Turkish official and Somali student died in car blast attack
Turkish security official and a Somali student were killed in Saturday’s attack on the Turkish consulate and relief mission in Mogadishu, Somalia’s prime minister said Sunday. Three suicide bombers also died in the
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