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Somali sheep start arriving
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 3 hours ago
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The first shipment of 246,000 Somali sheep arrived at Jeddah Islamic Port on Sunday after Saudi authorities granted permission to businessmen to import live cattle from the east African country. The government permission also stipulates that the cattle...
Tags: Suleiman Al-Jabri, Somalia, Mogadishu, Red Sea, Domestic sheep, Eid al-Adha, Somali people, Geography of Saudi Arabia, Jeddah, Makkah Province
This Thanksgiving, let’s give a thought to the people who process turkeys
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 12 hours ago
Credibility We should know where our turkeys come from, and who processes them for us. The turkeys piled into supermarket freezers carry their own stories. Raised primarily in massive confinement buildings by low-paid growers under contract to corporate food giants,...
Tags: wage workers, Somalia, Mogadishu, Meals, Thanksgiving, Domestic turkey, Social Issues, Labor
Al-Shabaab 'seizes Somali town'
Mogadishu :: Somalia | about 13 hours ago
Credibility The town, in Lower Juba region, had been controlled by rival group Hisbul-Islam, but its members are reported to have withdrawn without a fight. The two militant groups have been fighting each other for months for control of this region. Al-Shabaab wants...
Tags: Somalia, Mogadishu, timeline of the War in Somalia, Battle for Central Somalia, Religion Belief, War in Somalia, Islamist groups, Al-Shabaab, War Conflict, Hizbul Islam, Battle of Mogadishu, Politics, Politics of Somalia
Michael Palin's hand of friendship gives asylum seekers a human face
Cardiff :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
Credibility One is an epoch-defining comedian, not to mention a popular explorer and best-selling author who is fast approaching heritage-listed status. The other is a near-anonymous Somali refugee who fled his war-ravaged country and arrived in Britain knowing no...
Tags: Michael Palin, Musa Ibrahim, asylum seekers, Somalia, Bristol, Kenya, United Kingdom, Cardiff, Monty Python, Refugee, Palin, Political positions of Sarah Palin, Sahara with Michael Palin, Sarah Palin, United States presidential election, Social Issues
Iranian tanker escapes Somali pirates
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 1 day ago
Credibility According to Mehr News Agency, Iran Nesa , an oil tanker which belonged to the Iranian Oil Tanker Company, was attacked on Sunday in the waters of Bab al-Mandeb a strategic strait which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. The tanker was en route...
Tags: oil tanker, Somalia, Mogadishu, Arabian Sea, Piracy in Somalia, Piracy, Aden, Gulf of Aden, Great Rift Valley, Red Sea, Combined Task Force 150, Horn of Africa, International criminal law
Travers: It's not Somalia, but it's same story in so many ways
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility Rick Hillier, Canada's former chief of defence staff, says Afghanistan can't be compared to 1990s Somalia scandal. R ick Hillier, one of the powerful figures at the epicentre of the prisoner torture storm, has a revealing quirk. Question what happened...
Tags: Rick Hillier, Canada, Afghanistan, Somalia, Ottawa, Taliban insurgency, Taliban, Battle of Dahaneh, Helmand Province, War in Afghanistan, War Conflict, Human rights in Afghanistan, Hillier, Least Developed Countries, Human rights abuses, Politics
Kidnappers demand $7M for yacht couple
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility The Somali kidnappers of a British yachting couple say they want $7 million for their release, the BBC reported Saturday. The British broadcaster said it had received a phone call from the kidnappers demanding the ransom as Channel 4 News broadcast footage...
Tags: Paul Chandler, rachel chandlers, Somali, Rachel Chandler, yacht couple, Indian Ocean, Channel, United Kingdom, London, Hostage taking, Piracy, Somalia, Somali people, Maersk Alabama hijacking, October 28 2007 incident off Somalia, Piracy in Somalia, Gulf of Aden, Transport in Somalia, Chandler Bing, Terrorism in Russia, Iraqi insurgency, International criminal law, Humanitarian aid, Chandler, Rachel Green
Minn. lawyer denied access to terror suspect
Saint Paul :: Canada | 2 days ago
Credibility A Minnesota law professor and advocate for Somali immigrants in the state says he was denied access to a Minneapolis man who is being held on terrorism charges in the Netherlands. William Mitchell College of Law professor Peter Erlinder says he traveled...
Tags: Minnesota, Peter Erlinder, Minneapolis, erlinder says, Canada, Saint Paul, William Mitchell College of Law, Horn of Africa, Somalia, Somali people
Somali pirates can't be beaten at sea, why we cannot condemn them!
Somali pirates are back in the headlines after a Spanish trawler and its 36 member crew has thrust the issue of Somali piracy back into the spotlight. The vessel was released after a ransom payment...
Tags: Somalia, Somali pirates, Nuclear waste, Mogadishu, Georgia (country), Piracy, Somali people, Capitalism, Gulf of Aden, Bush, Piracy in Somalia, Transport in Somalia, allnews
Why Anti-American Militancy continues?
After the lapse of more than eight years, a ‘different war’ between the US-led state actors and the non-state actors continues unabated. It includes an unending wave of ambush assaults and suicide bombers in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Philippines,...
Tags: Occupied Kashmir., Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Philippines, Yemen, Kashmir and Palestine, Suicide attack, Anti-American Militancy, War Conflict, americans militancy, Politics, Muslim, Hillary Rodham Clinton, militancy continues, Abdel Aziz al Rantissi, Hamas, Sharon, United States, Aviv, Bin Laden, Lahore, allnews, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Pakistan, Taliban, Palestinian-Israeli, Islamic terrorism
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