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Glen Ford, 17 Jul 2011
The original crime – the one from which all the other horrors flow – was the theft of Somalia’s government,...
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James Traub, 11 Jul 2011
South Sudan is being baptized in blood. On Saturday, July 9, when the south formally...
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Zoe Flood in Nairobi, 09 Jul 2011
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Hui Min Neo, 29 Jun 2011
A poor rainy season coupled with rising food prices have led to severe food shortages in countries including Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda.
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Tendai Marima, 09 Jun 2011
When selective reporting due to lack of interest leads to the portrayal of the internationally supported...
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Colum Lynch, 07 Jun 2011
Last week, the U.N.'s human rights office in Sudan produced an internal memo concluding...
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Voice Of America, 05 Jun 2011
In the Somali capital Mogadishu, more and more children are becoming victims of the fighting between pro-government forces and the Islamist militia al Shabab.
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Human Rights Watch, 26 May 2011
(Conakry) - President Alpha Condé, who took power in December 2010, should address the profound human rights...
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David Smith in Abidjan, Xan Rice in Nairobi and Adam Gabbatt, 14 Apr 2011
He said Gbagbo, his wife Simone and the former president's entourage would be investigated by Ivorian authorities.
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Sudarsan Raghavan and Julie Tate, 02 Mar 2011
NAIROBI - A case filed before an African judicial body could open a new front in efforts by human rights...
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BBC, 21 Dec 2010
Mr Bashir said the constitution would then be changed, making Islam the only religion, Sharia the only law and Arabic the only official language.
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Sudarsan Raghavan, 30 Nov 2010
Abdul Qadir Mohammed remembers the imam's powerful voice bouncing off the mosque's white walls.
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Daniel Howden, 29 Nov 2010
The sea breeze carries the sound of Mogadishu's dawn chorus of munitions as far as the sand dunes high above the Indian Ocean. On the horizon,...
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Tristan McConnell , 30 Oct 2010
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Abir Sarras , 13 Jul 2010
The deadly bombings in Uganda during the World Cup final have deepened worries among American authorities about another once localized Islamic group...
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In recent months, many in the United States seem to have given up on Somalia. In March, for example, the Council on Foreign Relations issued...
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--, 10 May 2010
Thousands of Westerners, or to be more precise holders of Western passports, are being recruited by Al-Qaeda in Somalia -- according to Western intelligence agencies.
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Andre Le Sage , 31 Oct 2009
With leadership support from Harakat al-Shabab and Hizb al-Islamiyah -- two Somali Islamist movements -- al-Qaeda's East Africa cell has long used Somalia as a safehaven.
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Colum Lynch and Mary Beth Sheridan , 18 Oct 2009
Buoyed by booming oil wealth and a close relationship with China, Sudan has shrugged off repeated threats of action by the United States and other major powers.
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GEOFFREY YORK, 23 Sep 2009
Somalia's vicious 18-year civil war is spilling out into Kenya and beyond, spiralling into a global struggle that enmeshes the Somali diaspora from Africa to Europe to Canada.
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Jean Herskovits , 05 Aug 2009
Even established leaders of Islam in the north, who condemn Yusuf's preaching, are aware of how government has failed Nigeria's young. What has Western education done for them lately?
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Scott Johnson , 04 Aug 2009
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Solomon Gebre-Selassie, 28 Mar 2009
Ethiopia is a country with over 3,000 years of recorded and oral history, and African civilisation. It is one of the few ancient civilisations that has its own scripts and indigenous culture. The obelisks at Axum, the castles at Gondar, the rock-hewn churches at Lalibela in the north of the country,...
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www.strategypage.com, 16 Mar 2009
The fighting in Somalia is coming down to a battle between traditional Islamic practices (the mystical Sufi form) and the more radical Wahhabi version, imported from Saudi Arabia and concentrated in the al Shabaab group. Wahhabi Moslems consider Sufi to be a heresy (Wahhabi tends to consider any form of Islam other than theirs to be heresy).
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Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson , 11 Mar 2009
Senior U.S. counterterrorism officials are stepping up warnings that Islamist extremists in Somalia are radicalizing Americans to their cause, citing their successful recruitment of the first U.S. citizen suicide bomber and potential role in the disappearance of more than a dozen Somali American youths.
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Scott Baldauf , 17 Jul 2007
Just a year or two ago, Sudanese militant leaders Al-Hadi Adam Agabeldour and Sadiq Ali Shaibo would have considered each other enemies. They belonged to different militias, and their ethnic groups – Arab and Zaghawa, respectively – were fighting on opposite sides of the war in Sudan's troubled Darfur region.
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Salim Lone, 01 Apr 2007
Three months later, John's fears of a nightmare scenario still cannot be ruled out, as evidenced by the revolting desecration on Mogadishu's streets of dead Somali and Ethiopian soldiers' bodies, followed by the downing of the plane supporting the African Union peace-keepers.
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Michael Shank, 14 Jan 2007
Since the early 1990s, Somalia has lacked any semblance of a strong government. After the government collapsed in 1991, Shariah-oriented Islamic courts emerged, managing the judiciary system, acting as local police by preventing robberies and drug-dealing, and offering other services such as education and healthcare.
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Nicola Nasser , 05 Jan 2007
The U.S. foreign policy blundering has created a new violent hotbed of anti-Americanism in the turbulent Horn of Africa by orchestrating the Ethiopian invasion of another Muslim capital of the Arab League, in a clear American message...
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Najum Mushtaq , 29 Jul 2006
Many analysts underestimate or simply dismiss the potential of Somalia becoming the Afghanistan of Africa. The Somali tradition of “religious moderation and tolerance” is cited as a deterrent to a Taliban-like, medieval administration that could destabilize the region and provide support for militant Islamic movements worldwide.
