worldfocus.org - 1/28/2009
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Though news of piracy has dominated headlines worldwide, ongoing fighting in Somalia — a result of a power vacuum and conflict between warlords and insurgents — has displaced over 400,000 Somalis and left millions hungry. The United Nations estimates that 3.25 million Somalis , or 43 percent of ...
news.yahoo.com - 1/27/2009
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BAIDOA (Reuters) Hardline Islamist insurgents captured the central
town of Baidoa on Monday, an important stronghold of...
Somalia's fragile government and seat of the national parliament, witnesses said. Just hours after Ethiopia withdrew its last ...
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Somali insurgents take Baidoa after Ethiopians leave - ...
voanews.com - 1/28/2009
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Kilner report - Download (MP3) audio clip Kilner
report - Listen (MP3) audio clip The U.N. Special...
Humanitarian Envoy appealed for increased attention to the humanitarian crisis in Somalia, following a trip to the country. As Derek Kilner reports from ...
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UN Envoy Calls Attention to Somalia Humanitarian Crisis
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 1/28/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
The disastrous American-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia seems
to have reached its ultimate conclusion today as the...
Ethiopian-backed nominal government totally collapses and Islamist insurgents capture Baidoa. Now we’ll have to reach some ...
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The End in Somalia
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Somalia, We Hardly Knew Ya
Obsidian Wings —
... of what was intended, and, generally speaking, a lot of people end up dead, humanitarian crises abound and cycles of violence tend to reverberate and expand outward. Our dalliance in the Horn has been no different. According to the UN envoy in August 2008:
Just from the beginning of this year, the number of people in humanitarian crisis has increased 77 percent. That is going from 1.8 million people to more than 3.2 million people.
In December 2008:
[The recent fighting] has displaced over 400,000 ...
Somalia, We Hardly Knew Ya
Newshoggers.com —
... of what was intended, and, generally speaking, a lot of people end up dead, humanitarian crises abound and cycles of violence tend to reverberate and expand outward. Our dalliance in the Horn has been no different. According to the UN envoy in August 2008:
Just from the beginning of this year, the number of people in humanitarian crisis has increased 77 percent. That is going from 1.8 million people to more than 3.2 million people.
In December 2008:
[The recent fighting] has displaced over 400,000 ...
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