SOMALIA: Conditions getting worse in IDP camps

27 August 2008, 3:46 pm

Conditions for thousands of internally displaced persons camping on the outskirts of the Somali capital Mogadishu are getting worse, with malnutrition cases increasing as more arrive daily, sources told IRIN.... read more

Kidnapped Aussie reported unharmed

27 August 2008, 9:40 am

An Australian and a Canadian journalist kidnapped by Islamist insurgents in Somalia together with their translator have not been harmed, an organisation that defends media freedom says.... read more

Conditions may be ripe for Al Qaeda in Somalia

27 August 2008, 5:02 am

NAIROBI, KENYA -- Conventional wisdom long held that Somalia was so inhospitable that even Al Qaeda gave up trying to gain a foothold amid feuding clans, erratic warlords and a wily population hardened by years ...... read more

Fourteen die in Somalia's escalating violence

27 August 2008, 12:25 am

Fourteen people including four Ethiopian soldiers were killed and 20 others wounded on Wednesday in separate clashes between insurgents and Somali government forces and foreign forces in south and central ...... read more

Leaders agree to co-operate

26 August 2008, 4:03 pm

Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf and his prime minister signed a deal on Tuesday to work together after a weeks-long rift that threatened to wreck their interim government.... read more

Foreign Affairs working to secure kidnapped journalist's release

26 August 2008, 8:03 am

Canadian officials are working to secure the release of an Alberta journalist taken hostage in Somalia, says the woman's member of Parliament.... read more

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